Shakespeare Books

New and Published Books

1. All's Well, That Ends Well

   New Critical Essays

   Edited by Gary Waller

   Series: Shakespeare Criticism

   Described as one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing plays, All’s Well That Ends Well has only recently begun to receive the critical attention it deserves. Noted as a crucial point of development in Shakespeare’s career, this collection of new essays reflects the growing interest in the play and...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Shakespeare on Silent Film

   A Strange Eventful History

   By Robert Hamilton Ball

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

   In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
3. Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors

   By Peter S. Donaldson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

   Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
4. Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative

   By James Loxley, Mark Robson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of ‘performativity’ to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to: show how the investigation of performativity can enable...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Alternative Shakespeares Vol 2

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
6. A Second Elizabethan Journl V2

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Living Image

   Shakespearean Essays

   By T. R. Henn

   First published in 1972. The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare are a striking feature in Shakespeare's plays. The Living Image examines the nature of this imagery, considering it first in the light of the practices and...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
8. The Demonic

   Literature and Experience

   By Ewan Fernie

   Are we either good or bad, and do we really know the difference? Why do we want what we cannot have, and even to be what we’re not? Can we desire others without wanting to possess them? Can we open to others and not risk possession ourselves? And where, in these cases, do we draw the line? Ewan...

   Published November 7th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Concept of Injustice

   By Eric Heinze

   The Concept of Injustice challenges traditional Western justice theory. Thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Kant, Hegel, Marx and Rawls have subordinated the idea of injustice to the idea of justice. Misled by the word’s etymology, political theorists have assumed injustice to be the...

   Published October 23rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Henry V

    By John Matusiak

    Series: Routledge Historical Biographies

    Henry V of England, the princely hero of Shakespeare’s play, who successfully defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt and came close to becoming crowned King of France, is one of the best known and most compelling monarchs in English history. This new biography takes a fresh look at his...

    Published October 22nd 2012 by Routledge