Screen Adaptations: The Tempest

Literature and film studies students will find plenty of materialto support their courses and ess...

Female Hero in English Renaissance Tragedy

This book focuses on female tragic heroes in England from c.1610 to c.1645. Their sudden appearan...

Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader

’Tis Pity She’s A Whore

John Ford's tragedy 'Tis Pity She's A Whore was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since t...

Renaissance Drama on the Edge

Recurring to the governing idea of her 2005 study Shakespeare on the Edge, Lisa Hopkins expands t...

Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability

After Austen

This collection of twelve new essays examines some of what Jane Austen has become in the two...

Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader

Drama and the Succession to the Crown, 1561-1633

The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final...

Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage

Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey ...

King Lear

King Lear is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied plays - seen as one of the most sign...

Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction

This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a var...