Focusing on the clown Will Kemp, this book shows how Shakespeare and other dramatists wrote specific roles as vehicles for him.

This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays.

The Shakespearean Stage Space explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Renaissance playhouses.

Quentin Skinner highlights the use of judicial rhetoric in some of Shakespeare's most famous works, shedding new light on Shakespeare's reading and the intellectual base of his work.

"William Shakespeare's tragedy told in the style of texts, tweets, and status posts"--

By reading these works as uncannily faithful adaptations, Newlin articulates something like the original response of Shakespeare's audience.

Gives readers a sharp new critical understanding of how racial whiteness in Shakespeare begets anti-Blackness and sustains white supremacy.

Comprehensive study of the concept of love in Shakespeare's work, exploring historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love.

Reveals a rich cinematic history, discussing Hamlet films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare's life and times.