<![CDATA[The Book Company: New Products - Shakespeare]]> https://www.thebookco.com Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:02:17 +0000 <![CDATA[Toxic Masculinity on the London Stage, 1600-1610]]> https://www.thebookco.com/toxic-masculinity-on-the-london-stage-1600-1610-9781032890456 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:16:47 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/toxic-masculinity-on-the-london-stage-1600-1610-9781032890456 Toxic Masculinity on the London Stage, 1600-1610 by Anthony Archdeacon, 9781032890456The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first-century notion, but similar concerns about male behaviour, also often characterised in terms of poisons and poisoning.

Price: $33.99

]]> Toxic Masculinity on the London Stage, 1600-1610 by Anthony Archdeacon, 9781032890456The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first-century notion, but similar concerns about male behaviour, also often characterised in terms of poisons and poisoning.

Price: $33.99

]]> <![CDATA[The Shakespearean International Yearbook (Reparative Shakespeare)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/the-shakespearean-international-yearbook-9781032814339 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:12:32 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/the-shakespearean-international-yearbook-9781032814339 The Shakespearean International Yearbook (Reparative Shakespeare) by Alexa Alice Joubin, Natalia Khomenko, 9781032814339

In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the longing for restoring social order. Drawing on cases from around the world, this book interrogates the idea that performing or reading Shakespeare has socially reparative value.

Price: $64.99

]]> The Shakespearean International Yearbook (Reparative Shakespeare) by Alexa Alice Joubin, Natalia Khomenko, 9781032814339

In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the longing for restoring social order. Drawing on cases from around the world, this book interrogates the idea that performing or reading Shakespeare has socially reparative value.

Price: $64.99

]]> In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the longing for restoring social order. Drawing on cases from around the world, this book interrogates the idea that performing or reading Shakespeare has socially reparative value.

]]> <![CDATA[Shakespeare and a Place Calling Itself Rome]]> https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-and-a-place-calling-itself-rome-9781032578156 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:12:25 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/shakespeare-and-a-place-calling-itself-rome-9781032578156 Shakespeare and a Place Calling Itself Rome by Graham Holderness, 9781032578156

This new examination of Shakespeare’s four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra) revisits Shakespeare’s dramatic recreations of ancient Rome in the light of considerations of place.

Price: $64.99

]]> Shakespeare and a Place Calling Itself Rome by Graham Holderness, 9781032578156

This new examination of Shakespeare’s four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra) revisits Shakespeare’s dramatic recreations of ancient Rome in the light of considerations of place.

Price: $64.99

]]> This new examination of Shakespeare’s four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra) revisits Shakespeare’s dramatic recreations of ancient Rome in the light of considerations of place.

]]> <![CDATA[Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare (Hospitality and Hostility in the Plays)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/receiving-the-stranger-in-shakespeare-9780367623395 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:09:23 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/receiving-the-stranger-in-shakespeare-9780367623395 Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare (Hospitality and Hostility in the Plays) by Joan Fitzpatrick, 9780367623395

Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare provides critical analysis of the most important moments of hospitality or its denial in Shakespeare’s plays, situating them historically in order to fully explore Shakespeare's engagement with early modern views. 

Price: $64.99

]]> Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare (Hospitality and Hostility in the Plays) by Joan Fitzpatrick, 9780367623395

Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare provides critical analysis of the most important moments of hospitality or its denial in Shakespeare’s plays, situating them historically in order to fully explore Shakespeare's engagement with early modern views. 

Price: $64.99

]]> Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare provides critical analysis of the most important moments of hospitality or its denial in Shakespeare’s plays, situating them historically in order to fully explore Shakespeare's engagement with early modern views. 

]]> <![CDATA[Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare]]> https://www.thebookco.com/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-shakespeare-9781032612232 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:07:20 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-shakespeare-9781032612232 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare by Kelsey Ridge, 9781032612232

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare combines literary criticism, performance studies, psychiatric literature, trauma studies, and disability studies to examine the presentation of PTSD in Shakespeare’s plays. 

Price: $64.99

]]> Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare by Kelsey Ridge, 9781032612232

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare combines literary criticism, performance studies, psychiatric literature, trauma studies, and disability studies to examine the presentation of PTSD in Shakespeare’s plays. 

Price: $64.99

]]> Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare combines literary criticism, performance studies, psychiatric literature, trauma studies, and disability studies to examine the presentation of PTSD in Shakespeare’s plays. 

]]> <![CDATA[Embracing Disruption (Clowning, Improvisation, and the Unscripted in Early Shakespearean Performance)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/embracing-disruption-9781032740812 Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:45:05 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/embracing-disruption-9781032740812 Embracing Disruption (Clowning, Improvisation, and the Unscripted in Early Shakespearean Performance) by Stephen Wisker, 9781032740812

This volume celebrates the centrality of clowning to Shakespeare’s conception of theatre and how he purposefully invites the clown’s anarchic energy into the heart of his dramaturgy.

Price: $33.99

]]> Embracing Disruption (Clowning, Improvisation, and the Unscripted in Early Shakespearean Performance) by Stephen Wisker, 9781032740812

This volume celebrates the centrality of clowning to Shakespeare’s conception of theatre and how he purposefully invites the clown’s anarchic energy into the heart of his dramaturgy.

Price: $33.99

]]> This volume celebrates the centrality of clowning to Shakespeare’s conception of theatre and how he purposefully invites the clown’s anarchic energy into the heart of his dramaturgy.

]]> <![CDATA[Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy (From Lear to Leviathan)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/rethinking-shakespeares-political-philosophy-9781399574327 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:47:59 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/rethinking-shakespeares-political-philosophy-9781399574327 Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy (From Lear to Leviathan) by Alex Schulman, 9781399574327

What were Shakespeare’s politics? As this study demonstrates, contained in Shakespeare’s plays is an astonishingly powerful reckoning with the tradition of Western political thought, one whose depth and scope places Shakespeare alongside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes and others.
This..

Price: $24.95

]]> Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy (From Lear to Leviathan) by Alex Schulman, 9781399574327

What were Shakespeare’s politics? As this study demonstrates, contained in Shakespeare’s plays is an astonishingly powerful reckoning with the tradition of Western political thought, one whose depth and scope places Shakespeare alongside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes and others.
This..

Price: $24.95

]]> What were Shakespeare’s politics? As this study demonstrates, contained in Shakespeare’s plays is an astonishingly powerful reckoning with the tradition of Western political thought, one whose depth and scope places Shakespeare alongside Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes and others.
This..]]> <![CDATA[Performing Economic Thought (English Drama and Mercantile Writing 1600-1642)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/performing-economic-thought-9781399574266 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:47:45 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/performing-economic-thought-9781399574266 Performing Economic Thought (English Drama and Mercantile Writing 1600-1642) by Bradley Ryner, 9781399574266

Performing Economic Thought examines representations of economic exchange in English plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the closing of the public playhouses at the outset of the English Civil War in 1642. These were..

Price: $24.95

]]> Performing Economic Thought (English Drama and Mercantile Writing 1600-1642) by Bradley Ryner, 9781399574266

Performing Economic Thought examines representations of economic exchange in English plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the closing of the public playhouses at the outset of the English Civil War in 1642. These were..

Price: $24.95

]]> Performing Economic Thought examines representations of economic exchange in English plays and mercantile treatises written between the chartering of the English East India Company in 1600 and the closing of the public playhouses at the outset of the English Civil War in 1642. These were..]]> <![CDATA[Inventions of the Skin (The Painted Body in Early English Drama)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/inventions-of-the-skin-9781399574136 Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:47:31 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/inventions-of-the-skin-9781399574136 Inventions of the Skin (The Painted Body in Early English Drama) by Andrea Stevens, 9781399574136

Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage
Inventions of the Skin illuminates a history of the stage technology of paint that extends backward to the 1460s York cycle and forward to the 1630s. Organized as a series of studies, the four chapters of this boo..

Price: $24.95

]]> Inventions of the Skin (The Painted Body in Early English Drama) by Andrea Stevens, 9781399574136

Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage
Inventions of the Skin illuminates a history of the stage technology of paint that extends backward to the 1460s York cycle and forward to the 1630s. Organized as a series of studies, the four chapters of this boo..

Price: $24.95

]]> Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage
Inventions of the Skin illuminates a history of the stage technology of paint that extends backward to the 1460s York cycle and forward to the 1630s. Organized as a series of studies, the four chapters of this boo..]]> <![CDATA[Drama and Reality (The European Theatre Since Ibsen)]]> https://www.thebookco.com/drama-and-reality-9781041084471 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:32:35 +0000 https://www.thebookco.com/drama-and-reality-9781041084471 Drama and Reality (The European Theatre Since Ibsen) by Ronald Gaskell, 9781041084471

First published in 1972, Drama and Reality is a lucid account of the forces that have shaped modern European theatre, and especially of the different conceptions of reality implied in different plays. 

Price: $42.99

]]> Drama and Reality (The European Theatre Since Ibsen) by Ronald Gaskell, 9781041084471

First published in 1972, Drama and Reality is a lucid account of the forces that have shaped modern European theatre, and especially of the different conceptions of reality implied in different plays. 

Price: $42.99

]]> First published in 1972, Drama and Reality is a lucid account of the forces that have shaped modern European theatre, and especially of the different conceptions of reality implied in different plays. 

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