<![CDATA[The Book Company: New Products - Shakespeare]]> https://www.thebookco.com Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:50:37 +0000 <![CDATA[SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET IN AN ERA OF TEXTUAL EXHAUSTION]]> https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeares-hamlet-in-an-era-of-textual-exhaustion-9781138291270 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:52:49 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeares-hamlet-in-an-era-of-textual-exhaustion-9781138291270 SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET IN AN ERA OF TEXTUAL EXHAUSTION by Sonya Freeman Loftis, Allison Kellar, Lisa Ulevich, 9781138291270"Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture’s oversaturation with this most canonical of texts. Combining adaptation theory and performance theory with examinations of avant-gard..

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]]> SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET IN AN ERA OF TEXTUAL EXHAUSTION by Sonya Freeman Loftis, Allison Kellar, Lisa Ulevich, 9781138291270"Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture’s oversaturation with this most canonical of texts. Combining adaptation theory and performance theory with examinations of avant-gard..

Price: $233.99

]]> Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture’s oversaturation with this most canonical of texts. Combining adaptation theory and performance theory with examinations of avant-gard..]]> <![CDATA[Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642]]> https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-and-the-versification-of-english-drama-1561-1642-9781472430281 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:52:35 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-and-the-versification-of-english-drama-1561-1642-9781472430281 Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642 by Marina Tarlinskaja, 9781472430281Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. Marina Tarlinskaja’s statistical analysis of versification focuses on Shakespeare, but places his work in the literary context of the times. Her results..

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]]> Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642 by Marina Tarlinskaja, 9781472430281Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. Marina Tarlinskaja’s statistical analysis of versification focuses on Shakespeare, but places his work in the literary context of the times. Her results..

Price: $233.99

]]> <![CDATA[Shakespeare and the Power of the Face]]> https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-and-the-power-of-the-face-9781472415790 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:52:26 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-and-the-power-of-the-face-9781472415790 Shakespeare and the Power of the Face by James A. Knapp, 9781472415790As contributors to this volume prove, Shakespeare’s language of the self relies on descriptions of and reactions to facial expressions and features. An analysis of Shakespeare’s treatment of faces has implications for our understanding of the context in which he wrote, and for the ongoing interpre..

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]]> Shakespeare and the Power of the Face by James A. Knapp, 9781472415790As contributors to this volume prove, Shakespeare’s language of the self relies on descriptions of and reactions to facial expressions and features. An analysis of Shakespeare’s treatment of faces has implications for our understanding of the context in which he wrote, and for the ongoing interpre..

Price: $233.99

]]> <![CDATA[Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance (Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-and-the-italian-renaissance-9781472448392 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:52:18 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-and-the-italian-renaissance-9781472448392 Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance (Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition) by Michele Marrapodi, 9781472448392This book investigates the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the European Renaissance, in the context of Italian cultural, dramatic and literary traditions. Contributors perceive the Italian presence in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitatio..

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]]> Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance (Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition) by Michele Marrapodi, 9781472448392This book investigates the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the European Renaissance, in the context of Italian cultural, dramatic and literary traditions. Contributors perceive the Italian presence in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitatio..

Price: $233.99

]]> <![CDATA[King Lear (Critical Essays)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/king-lear-critical-essays-9781138850248 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:55:46 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/king-lear-critical-essays-9781138850248 King Lear (Critical Essays) by Kenneth Muir, 9781138850248

Originally published in 1984. With selections organised chronologically, this collection presents the best writing on one of Shakespeare’s most studied plays.

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]]> King Lear (Critical Essays) by Kenneth Muir, 9781138850248

Originally published in 1984. With selections organised chronologically, this collection presents the best writing on one of Shakespeare’s most studied plays.

Price: $233.99

]]> Originally published in 1984. With selections organised chronologically, this collection presents the best writing on one of Shakespeare’s most studied plays.

]]> <![CDATA[Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture (Appropriation and Inversion)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-cinema-counter-culture-9780415823005 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:34:12 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-cinema-counter-culture-9780415823005 Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture (Appropriation and Inversion) by Ailsa Ferguson, 9780415823005

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson pres..

Price: $249.99

]]> Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture (Appropriation and Inversion) by Ailsa Ferguson, 9780415823005

Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson pres..

Price: $249.99

]]> Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson pres..]]> <![CDATA[Shakespeare (A Life in Art)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-a-life-in-art-9781138532502 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:34:06 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-a-life-in-art-9781138532502 Shakespeare (A Life in Art) by Russell Fraser, 9781138532502Shakespeare: A Life in Art brings together in a single volume Fraser's previously published two-volume biography (Young Shakespeare, 1988, and Shakespeare: The Later Years, 1992)

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]]> Shakespeare (A Life in Art) by Russell Fraser, 9781138532502Shakespeare: A Life in Art brings together in a single volume Fraser's previously published two-volume biography (Young Shakespeare, 1988, and Shakespeare: The Later Years, 1992)

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]]> Shakespeare: A Life in Art brings together in a single volume Fraser's previously published two-volume biography (Young Shakespeare, 1988, and Shakespeare: The Later Years, 1992)]]> <![CDATA[Radical Shakespeare (Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/radical-shakespeare-9780415897938 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:46:15 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/radical-shakespeare-9780415897938 Radical Shakespeare (Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career) by Chris Fitter, 9780415897938

This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries,..

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]]> Radical Shakespeare (Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career) by Chris Fitter, 9780415897938

This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries,..

Price: $233.99

]]> This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries,..]]> <![CDATA[Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature (Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/male-to-female-crossdressing-in-early-modern-english-literature-9781138951211 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:07:13 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/male-to-female-crossdressing-in-early-modern-english-literature-9781138951211 Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature (Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations) by Simone Chess, 9781138951211

This book examines male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry. Chess argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic..

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]]> Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature (Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations) by Simone Chess, 9781138951211

This book examines male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry. Chess argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic..

Price: $233.99

]]> This book examines male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry. Chess argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender—that crossdressers’ genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic..]]> <![CDATA[Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body]]> https://www.thebookco.com/disability-health-and-happiness-in-the-shakespearean-body-9781138804289 Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:45:36 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/disability-health-and-happiness-in-the-shakespearean-body-9781138804289 Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body by Sujata Iyengar, 9781138804289

This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, uncovering the complex negotiations among physical embodiment, emotional response, and communally-sanctioned behavior in Shakespeare's world. It visits the history of the body an..

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]]> Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body by Sujata Iyengar, 9781138804289

This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, uncovering the complex negotiations among physical embodiment, emotional response, and communally-sanctioned behavior in Shakespeare's world. It visits the history of the body an..

Price: $249.99

]]> This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, uncovering the complex negotiations among physical embodiment, emotional response, and communally-sanctioned behavior in Shakespeare's world. It visits the history of the body an..]]>