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Die beiden Veroneser. Coriolanus. Liebes Leid und Lust
De Gruyter 1856; US$ 154.00Die beiden Veroneser. Coriolanus. Liebes Leid und Lust more...
A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare
Constable & Robinson 2013; US$ 13.11An accessible and entertaining journey through the life, times, and work of the Bard - Enigma. Master of language. The greatest comedian in history? The most famous writer in the world. But isn't he a little bit boring? This is an essential guide for anyone who has previously avoided the Bard, and is the perfect introduction for first time students... more...
Blood Relations
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 32.00In Blood Relations , Janet Adelman confronts her resistance to The Merchant of Venice as both a critic and a Jew. With her distinctive psychological acumen, she argues that Shakespeare’s play frames the uneasy relationship between Christian and Jew specifically in familial terms in order to recapitulate the vexed familial relationship between... more...
Suffocating Mothers
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 33.95An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall. more...
Extramural Shakespeare
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 85.00This study argues that Shakespeare can now be understood as part of public culture. Thanks to the emergence of mass education in the twentieth century, Albanese argues that Shakespeare has become a shared property, despite the depiction of his texts as 'elite' cultural objects in the film industry. more...
Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 140.00Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner and Britten to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare... more...
Shakespeare and Language
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00This collection considers the characteristics, excitement and unique qualities of Shakespeare's language, the relationship between language and event, and the social, theatrical and literary functions of language. A new introduction, by Jonathan Hope, explicates the differences between Shakespeare's language and our own. more...
The Improbability of Othello
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 39.00Shakespeare’s dramatis personae exist in a world of supposition, struggling to connect knowledge that cannot be had, judgments that must be made, and actions that need to be taken. For them, probability—what they and others might be persuaded to believe—governs human affairs, not certainty. Yet negotiating the space of probability... more...
King Leir
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 29.95Performed at the Globe Theater in 1605, King Leir is presumed to be a prime source for Shakespeare. Although the story is the same, in this anonymous version the ending is happy. This is the first time this fascinating work is published in a single-play edition more...
The Existential Dramaturgy of William Shakespeare
The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 149.95An interpretation of Shakespeare through the spiritual crisis of his chief characters. more...









