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Welcome to our catalogue for Shakespeare & Early Modern Studies which showcases new and selected backlist titles.
The Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy series is growing rapidly with new titles forthcoming this year: Shakespearean Melancholy: Philosophy, Form and the Transformation of Comedy by J.F. Bernard, Second Death: Theatricalities of the Soul in Shakespeare’s Drama by Donovan Sherman, Shakespeare’s Fugitive Politics by Thomas P. Anderson, Making Publics in Shakespeare’s Playhouse by Paul Yachnin and Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare’s Stage by Katherine Gillen.
The Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture series is filled with critically rigorous books that continue to add invaluable intellectual debates to the field. New and forthcoming titles in the series include Forgetting Differences: Tragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars on Religion by Andrea Frisch, Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England by Allison Deutermann and Perfecting the Law: Literature and Legal Reform in Shakespeare’s England by Virginia Lee Strain.
An exciting highlight this season is an original paperback, Worldly Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our Good Will by esteemed scholar, Richard Wilson.
Also new in paperback is Re-Humanising Shakespeare: Literary Humanism, Wisdom and Modernity by Andrew Mousley.
For the classroom, The Student’s Guide to Shakespeare by William McKenzie is a ‘one-stop-shop’ for the busy undergraduate struggling with Shakespeare.
New for this season is Coleridge: Lectures on Shakespeare (1811–1819) edited by Adam Roberts, a must-read for anyone interested in Shakespeare criticism.
We offer a range of books showcasing the latest and most rigorous scholarly research, comprehensive teaching tools and innovative titles for the general reader.
Cover image: Shakespeare “All the world‘s a stage” quotation from As You Like Itwww.shutterstock.com
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The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the ArtsEdited by Mark Thornton Burnett, Adrian Streete and Ramona Wray all at Queen’s University, Belfast
Explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to artistic practices and activities, past and present
‘This remarkable collection is the most comprehensive and up-to-date Companion to Shakespeare ever assembled. With thirty essays all by distinguished or cutting-edge scholars, covering every significant mode of Shakespearean production and adaptation from the early modern period to the present, such as in music, comics, television, dance, visual arts, radio, film, as well as on the stage, there is no better book for Shakespeare courses to contextualize and complement the Bard’s own work.’Bryan Reynolds, University of California, Irvine
The thirty chapters in this Companion recover the conditions that enabled Shakespeare’s art, and move through subsequent centuries to detail how the plays and poems have been reworked and revitalized in the arts of modernity, including publishing, exhibiting, staging, reconstructing and disseminating. Each chapter provides both a synthesis and a discussion of a topic, informed by current thinking and theoretical reflection.
Key Features• Addresses Shakespeare in terms of a global frame of reference• Chapters consider chronology and overview, critical history and analysis• Responds to a growing critical and pedagogical interest in the relations between Shakespeare, the arts, film,
performance and mass media more generally
2011 588pp54 b&w illustrationsHb 978 0 7486 3523 8 £165.00
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The Truth About WilliamShakespeareFact, Fiction and Modern BiographiesDavid Ellis, University of Kent at Canterbury
A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information
‘Not only, in my view, definitive in its treatment of its subject, but a pleasure to read. Every scholarly library should own it, and all readers interested in Shakespeare or biography.’The Vocabula Review
How can biographies of Shakespeare continue to appear when we know so little about him, and what we do know has been in the public domain for such a long time? This book examines methods biographers have used to hide their lack of knowledge while at the same time outlining all that is directly known about Shakespeare. It asks the reader to think about how we acquire our knowledge of other people and what we ought therefore to expect of biographies.
2013 208ppPb 978 0 7486 4667 8 £19.992012Hb 978 0 7486 4666 1 £65.00
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Worldly ShakespeareThe Theatre of Our Good WillRichard Wilson, Kingston University
The first study to consider Shakespeare’s plays through the lens of contemporary agonistic political philosophy
What was Shakespeare thinking when the players named their ‘wide and universal theatre’ the Globe? In Worldly Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our Good Will, Richard Wilson situates this playacting in the context of current concerns about the difference between globalization and true ‘mondialization’. Shakespeare was ‘thinking the world’ as a planetary drama without catharsis, Wilson suggests, and anticipating agonistic philosophers like Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Žižek, who insist the essence of democracy is dissent, and ‘the presence of two worlds in one’.
Shakespeare’s worldliness consists of the right to give, but not to take offence, Worldly Shakespeare argues. So his plays stage the qualified toleration pictured by Velázquez, when he painted Catholics and Protestants embracing amidst their weapons. Living out his scenario of the guest who destroys the host, by welcoming the religious fanatic, paranoid queen, veiled woman, and even terrorist into his play-world, Wilson concludes, Shakespeare provides a pretext for our own globalized communities in times of Facebook and fatwa, as we also come to depend on the right to offend, ‘with our good will’.
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Shakespeare and ContinentalPhilosophyEdited by Jennifer Bates, Duquesne University and Richard Wilson, Kingston University
Essays by leading authors on Shakespeare drawing on contemporary and early continental philosophy
This collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy develops different aspects of the interface between continental thinking and Shakespeare’s plays. The authors draw from current continental philosophy (e.g. Lacan, Foucault, Derrida) as well as from the 19th century continental tradition (e.g. Hegel, Kierkegaard) and from the early roots of continental tradition (e.g. Aristotle, Ibn Sina). The chapters address the span of the tragedies, comedies and history plays in the light of thinkers as diverse as Aristotle, Ibn Sina and Jean-Luc Marion, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Schmitt, Arendt, Lacan, Levinas, Foucault and Derrida.
List of contributors: Jennifer Ann Bates; Catherine Belsey; Edward S. Casey; Howard Caygill; Andrew Cutrofello; Bernard Freydberg; Peter Holbrook; James A. Knapp; Paul A. Kottman; Julia Reinhard Lupton; Christopher Norris; Christopher Pye; Nicholas Royle; Tom Stern; Richard Wilson
2014 288ppPb 978 0 7486 9559 1 £29.99Hb 978 0 7486 9494 5 £90.00
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Open SubjectsEnglish Renaissance Republicans, Modern Selfhoods and the Virtue of VulnerabilityJames Kuzner, Brown University
The first exploration of how early modern republican and contemporary radical thought connect with and complement each other
James Kuzner’s original study of writing by Spenser, Shakespeare, Marvell and Milton is the first to present a genealogy for the modern self in which its republican origins can be understood far more radically.
2012 232ppPb 978 0 7486 6487 0 19.992011Hb 978 0 7486 4253 3 £70.00
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Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance CultureSeries Editor: Lorna Hutson, University of St Andrews
These original interpretations of Renaissance culture focus on literary texts in English and in a range of vernacular languages. They also deal with the reception and transformation of the Greco-Roman literary, political and intellectual heritage.
Untutored LinesThe Making of the English EpyllionWilliam Weaver, Baylor University
A compelling cultural reinterpretation of humanist discourses of boyhood
Provides a new understanding of the epyllion as a genre exploiting the subversive potential of various educational thresholds, such as the transition from grammar to rhetoric.
2012 232ppHb 978 0 7486 4465 0 £70.00
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Don Quixote in the ArchivesMadness and Literature in Early Modern SpainDale Shuger, Columbia University
A new reading of madness in Don Quixote based on archival accounts of insanity
Dale Shuger presents, from the records of the Spanish Inquisition, a social corpus of early modern madness that differs radically from the ‘literary’ madness hitherto studied by Cervantes critics.2012 232pp
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The Phantom of ChanceFrom Fortune to Randomness in Seventeenth-Century French LiteratureJohn Lyons, University of Virginia
How the classical and medieval conceptions of Fortune shifted to the modern notion of chance
Provides a new account of the crucial shift from the classical and medieval conception of Fortune to the modern notion of chance or randomness.
2011 240ppHb 978 0 7486 4515 2 £70.00
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Friendship’s ShadowsWomen’s Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640–1705Penelope Anderson, Indiana University
The first sustained investigation of early modern women’s friendship
Penelope Anderson’s original study changes our understanding both of the masculine Renaissance friendship tradition and of the private forms of women’s friendship of the eighteenth century and after.
2012 288ppHb 978 0 7486 5582 3 £75.00
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The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s SistersGender, Transgression, AdolescenceJennifer Higginbotham, Ohio State University
The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture
This monograph provides the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the ‘girl’.
2013 240ppHb 978 0 7486 5590 8 £70.00
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Inventions of the SkinThe Painted Body in Early English DramaAndrea Stevens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Examines the painted body of the actor on the early modern stage
Recovering a crucial grammar of theatrical representation, this book argues that the onstage embodiment of characters – not just the words written for them to speak – forms an important and overlooked aspect of stage representation.2013 192pp
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Performing Economic ThoughtEnglish Drama and Mercantile Writing 1600–1642Bradley Ryner, Arizona State University
Provides an original account of the relationship between economic thought and early modern drama
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.
2013 232pp8 b&w illustrationsHb 978 0 7486 8465 6 £70.00
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Forgetting DifferencesTragedy, Historiography, and the French Wars of ReligionAndrea Frisch, University of Maryland
Examines the impact of the royal politics of amnesia on tragedy and national historiography in France, 1560–1630
This study argues that the political and legislative process of forgetting internal differences, undertaken in France after the civil wars of the sixteenth century, leads to subtle yet fundamental shifts in the broader conception of the relationship between readers or spectators on the one hand, and the matter of history, on the other.
2015 192ppHb 978 0 7486 9439 6 £70.00
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Listening for Theatrical Form inEarly Modern EnglandAllison Deutermann, City University of New York
Examines the impact of hearing on the formal and generic development of early modern theatre
This book traces the dialectical development of auditory modes over six decades of commercial theatre history, combining surveys of the theatrical marketplace with focused attention to specific plays.
June 2016 256pp6 b&w illustrations Hb 978 1 4744 1126 4 £70.00
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Perfecting the LawLiterature and Legal Reform inShakespeare’s EnglandVirginia Lee Strain, Loyola University, Chicago
Reevaluates English Renaissance literature through the historical discourse on legal reform
This book examines early modern literatures contribution to legal reform, the discourse and practices of which scrutinized the forms of the law and the character of its officers.March 2017 192pp
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Re-Humanising ShakespeareLiterary Humanism, Wisdom and ModernityAndrew Mousley, De Montfort University
Can Shakespeare help us with the question of how to live?
Re-Humanising Shakespeare argues that although Shakespeare strikingly dramatizes various kinds of uncertainty and scepticism, including scepticism about what it is to be human, his work can still serve as a rich source of existential wisdom and guidance.
Revised throughout, the book includes:• A new introduction which focuses attention on what is specific to literature• Treatment of the human (as epitomised by Shakespeare)• A section drawing on new work on literary genres as different forms of engagement with human life• A new chapter on Richard IIMarch 2015 240pp
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ShakespeareGabriel Egan, De Montfort University
Poses questions about why Shakespeare is the most commonly studied writer in the world
The main chapters of the book approach the texts through a series of questions: ‘what’s changed since Shakespeare’s time?’, ‘to what uses has Shakespeare been put?’, and ‘what value is there in Shakespeare?’ These questions go to the heart of why we study Shakespeare at all, which question the book encourages the readers to answer for themselves in relation to their own critical writing.
2007 224pp1 b&w illustrationsPb 978 0 7486 2372 3 £18.99Hb 978 0 7486 2371 6 £80.00
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Shakespeare in Theory and PracticeCatherine Belsey, University of Wales Swansea
Puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare’s powers of seduction
These are essays of love, as well as about love, and this makes them unusually sensitive...Belsey’s insistence on the anarchy of desire seems both timely and genuinely radical.Peter Holbrook, Times Literary Supplement
2010 224ppPb 978 0 7486 4046 1 £26.992008Hb 978 0 7486 3301 2 £65.00
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The Student’s Guide to ShakespeareWilliam McKenzie, University of Oxford
A ‘one-stop-shop’ for the busy undergraduate struggling with Shakespeare
This no-nonsense volume offers detailed guidance to nearly two-thirds of Shakespeare’s enormous dramatic output, and to all the most famous plays. Each discussion contains sections on sources, characters, performance, themes, language, and critical history. If read from cover to cover, the reader will gain quickly a full grasp of ‘Shakespeare’ in the myriad senses of the word: working playwright, experimenter with myths, stories and words, influencer of poets, philosophers, psychologists, directors and actors over four centuries across the world, and even ‘inventor of the human’.
Key Features• An introduction which gives a fresh, up-to-date ‘state-of-play’ of the academic, theatrical and cultural efforts
inspired by Shakespeare’s texts, and hypothesises exciting future directions for such work• A discussion of critical approaches to his texts: stylistic analysis, editorial attention to textual variations,
performance history, theoretical outlooks: students can see various ways of approaching a text, and how they might mutually illuminate each other
• Illustrations of how Shakespeare’s plays and poems relate to early modern and contemporary philosophies of language, art, politics and psychology
• Succinct guides to Shakespeare’s most-studied plays, based on user-tested seminar discussions, intended to give undergraduates enough information to prepare a seminar discussion or essay
• Questions for follow-up
February 2017 256pp8 b&w illustrations4 b&w line art Pb 978 1 4744 1353 4 £14.99Hb 978 1 4744 1351 0 £70.00
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John Webster, RenaissanceDramatistDavid Coleman, Nottingham Trent University
This introduction locates Webster’s plays within the context of the culture from which they sprang. Examining the uncertain political, religious, and economic climate of Jacobean London, the book offers a guide to one of the most distinctive, yet most elusive, dramatists of Renaissance England.2010 176pp
Pb 978 0 7486 3465 1 £18.99Hb 978 0 7486 3464 4 £70.00
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Thomas Middleton, RenaissanceDramatistMichelle O’Callaghan, University of Reading
This volume brings together aspects of Middleton’s craft through a detailed study of representative plays.
Key Features• Wide ranging introduction
to Middleton’s city comedies, tragedies, and collaborative plays
• Guides readers through criticism of the plays as well as recent work on early modern theatre and culture
2009 208ppPb 978 0 7486 2781 3 £18.99Hb 978 0 7486 2780 6 £70.00
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Christopher Marlowe, RenaissanceDramatistLisa Hopkins
An accessible student guide to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe
Key Features• Emphasises how daring Marlowe’s
ideas were at the time as well as their relevance to readers today
• Covers the theatrical contexts of Marlowe’s plays and their performance history
• Reassesses Marlowe’s achievement as well as his relationship to Shakespeare
2008 192ppPb 978 0 7486 2473 7 £18.99Hb 978 0 7486 2472 0 £80.00
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Ben Jonson, Renaissance DramatistSean McEvoy, Vardean College, Brighton
This guide to the English renaissance’s most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now.
2008 192pp5 b&w illustrationsPb 978 0 7486 2302 0 £18.99Hb 978 0 7486 2301 3 £80.00
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Renaissance DramatistsSeries Editor: Sean McEvoy, Varndean College, Brighton
An invaluable resource for all students of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, each volume in this series provides an authoritative and up-to-date survey of a major dramatist’s work with a focus on the plays in performance.
Each guide provides: • An informative account of the writer’s entire dramatic output, with an emphasis on those plays most frequently studied at university, college
and school • Detailed and relevant contextual information on history, culture, politics and biography • A lucid survey of important recent criticism • Original critical readings of the major plays
The Ben Jonson JournalEditors: Richard Harp, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Stanley Stewart University of California, Riverside & Robert C. Evans, Auburn University, Montgomery
The Ben Jonson Journal is dedicated to the study of Ben Jonson and the culture in which his manifold literary efforts thrived. Fully peer-reviewed and published twice a year, it includes essays on poetry, theatre, criticism, religion, law, the court, the curriculum, medicine, commerce, the city, and family life.
ISSN 1079 3453 eISSN 1755 165XTwo issues per year
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Screening Shakespeare in theTwenty-First CenturyEdited by Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen’s University, Belfast
This bold collection offers an innovative discussion of Shakespeare on screen after the millennium
Cutting-edge, and fully up-to-date, it surveys the rich field of Bardic film representations, from Almereyda’s Hamlet to the BBC ‘Shakespea(Re)-Told’ season, from Radford’s The Merchant of Venice to Babakitis’ Henry V.
2006 224ppPb 978 0 7486 2351 8 £26.99Hb 978 0 7486 2350 1 £85.00
The Early Modern Corpse andShakespeare’s TheatreSusan Zimmerman, City University of New York
Demonstrates connections between the meanings attached to the material body in early modern Protestantism
This book explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the ‘dead’ in early modern English culture within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology.
2007 288ppPb 978 0 7486 3363 0 £26.992005Hb 978 0 7486 2103 3 £100.00
Cosmetics in Shakespearean andRenaissance DramaFarah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare’s Globe
Examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the cultural preoccupation with cosmetics
This original study examines how the plays of Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists reflect and engage with the early modern discourse of cosmetics. Farah Karim-Cooper analyses contemporary tracts that address the then-contentious issue of cosmetic practice and identifies a ‘culture of cosmetics’, which finds its visual identity on the Renaissance stage.
Key Features• The only in-depth study of cosmetic culture and its visual representation on the Renaissance stage• Provides original views of Shakespearean and Renaissance drama by examining its preoccupation with
cosmetic ingredients, metaphors and the staging of painted beauty• Offers insight into Renaissance women’s cosmetic practice by uncovering a wide range of ingredients,
methods and materials used in the construction of cosmetics• Includes numerous cosmetic recipes found in early modern printed books, never before published in a
modern edition
2012 232pp17 b&w illustrations Pb 978 0 7486 7333 9 £19.99Hb 978 0 7486 1993 1 £28.99
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Shakespeare’s History PlaysRethinking HistoricismNeema Parvini, University of Surrey
Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare’s history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches
This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years.2012 256pp
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Shakespeare’s Late PlaysNew ReadingsJennifer Richards and James Knowles, University of Newcastle
Reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare’s plays performed between 1608 and 1613
This book offers a broad range of approaches such as kinship relations, manliness, magic, medico-politics, nationalism, rhetoric, schism, sexuality and staging conventions.
S H A K E S P E A R E ’ S L AT E P L AY SN e w R e a d i n g s
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Pericles
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The Tempest
Cardenio
Henry VIII
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This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in
Shakespeare’s plays performed between 1608 and 1613: Pericles,
Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, All is True (Henry
VIII), The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Cardenio. It offers a broad
range of new, historicist approaches, touching upon key topics
in current Shakespearean studies, such as kinship relations,
manliness, magic, medico-politics, nationalism, rhetoric,
schism, sexuality and staging conventions. The plays are
explored both individually and within generic, thematic and
chronological groups.
Each author combines new research with their experience of
teaching the plays, offering innovative approaches to some well-
known works, as well as encouraging readers to explore less
familiar dramas such as Pericles, Cymbeline, All is True and The
Two Noble Kinsmen. The volume is unusual in that it covers the
lost ‘last’ play Cardenio, and considers its significance for our
conception of the ‘lateness’ of these plays.
This book will fill a large gap in the market for a broad-ranging
critical introduction to this important and increasingly popular
area in Shakespeare’s work, and is suitable as a textbook for
undergraduate, graduate and more general readers.
‘There is a real need for a book of this sort . . . this volume is set
to make a very valuable contribution to the study of the Late
Plays.’
Professor John Drakakis, Department of English Studies,
University of Stirling.
‘A soundly judged set of essays for students to use at university
and upper high-school levels . . . The editors have assembled a
coherent set of essays . . . pitched at a level and on topics that
should establish them as central to the teaching of these plays.’
Professor Andrew Gurr, Department of English,
University of Reading.
Jennifer Richards and James Knowles are Lecturers in English
at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Cover design: Fionna RobsonCover image: Storm Cloud by Sir William MacTaggart, oil on canvas,1966.Reproduced by kind permission of The City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
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Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and PhilosophySeries Editor: Kevin Curran, University of Lausanne
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy takes seriously the speculative and world-making properties of Shakespeare’s art. Maintaining a broad view of “philosophy” that accommodates foundational questions of metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics, the series also expands our understanding of philosophy to include the unique kinds of theoretical work carried out by performance and poetry itself. These scholarly monographs will reinvigorate Shakespeare studies by opening new interdisciplinary conversations among scholars, artists, and students.
Rethinking Shakespeare’s PoliticalPhilosophyFrom Lear to LeviathanAlex Schulman, Duke University
A new interpretation of Shakespeare’s plays as a unified statement of early modern political theory
This book is the first attempt by a political theorist to read Shakespeare within the trajectory of political thought as one of the authors of modernity. 2014 248pp
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Shakespeare’s Fugitive PoliticsThomas P. Anderson, Mississippi State University
Establishes Shakespeare’s plays as some of the period’s most speculative political literature
Shakespeare’s Fugitive Politics makes the case that Shakespeare’s plays reveal there is always something more terrifying to the king than rebellion.
September 2016 256ppHb 978 0 7486 9734 2 £70.00
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Making Publics in Shakespeare’sPlayhousePaul Yachnin, McGill University, Canada
Provides a new way of understanding the social creativity of Shakespeare’s art in its own time
This book demonstrates that in presenting public life as plural, Shakespeare both rewrote his own society and laid the foundations for the modern world.
March 2017 256ppHb 978 1 4744 0206 4 £70.00
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Shakespeare in HindsightCounterfactual Thinking andShakespearean TragedyAmir Khan, Liaoning Normal University-Missouri State University (LNU-MSU) College of International Business in Dalian, China
A novel methodology designed to make Shakespeare, and his tragedies in particular, more accessible to students and scholars alike
This bold new study uses counterfactual thinking to enable us to feel, rather than to explain, Shakespeare’s tragedies.
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Shakespearean MelancholyPhilosophy, Form, and the Transformation of ComedyJ. F. Bernard, Champlain College
Shakespeare transforms philosophies of comedy and melancholy by revising them concomitantly
This richly contextualized study of Shakespeare’s comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and, conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy.
August 2017 248ppHb 978 1 4744 1733 4 £70.00
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Second DeathTheatricalities of the Soul inShakespeare’s DramaDonovan Sherman, Seton Hall University, New Jersey
Illuminates our understanding of the soul as a historically and philosophically vital concept through Shakespearean drama
The book contends that the work of Shakespeare, when closely read alongside early modern cultural and religious writings, helps us understand the soul’s historical placement as a powerful paradox: it was essential to establishing humanity but resistant to clear representation.
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Chaste ValueEconomic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare’s StageKatherine Gillen, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Argues that chastity informs the early modern stage’s production of early capitalist subjectivity and social difference
August 2017 192ppHb 978 1 4744 1771 6 £70.00
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Shakespearean MaternitiesCrises of Conception in Early ModernEnglandChris Laoutaris, University College London
Explores maternity in the ‘disciplines’ of early modern England
This book reveals the ways in which the maternal body was figured in, and in turn contributed towards the re-conceptualisation of, bodies of knowledge.2008 320pp
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War and Nation in the Theatre of Shakespeare and His ContemporariesSimon Barker
Addresses the early-modern period as one of particular importance in the history of
warfare This original study explores a vital aspect of early modern cultural history: the way that warfare is represented in the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.2007 256pp
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Shakespeare and JudgmentEdited by Kevin Curran, University of Lausanne
Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama
Shakespeare and Judgment gathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare’s career and from each of the genres in which he wrote.
November 2016 256ppHb 978 1 4744 1315 2 £70.00
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Coleridge: Lectures on Shakespeare(1811–1819) Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEdited by Adam Roberts, University of London, Royal Holloway
A newly edited readers’ edition of Coleridge’s foundational lectures on Shakespeare
This volume comprises a freshly composed edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1811–1812 Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton and 1818–1819 Lectures on Shakespeare. Coleridge is a foundational figure in Shakespeare criticism, and remains to this day one of the most incisive and best. Nobody interested in Coleridge, Shakespeare or Literary Criticism more broadly can afford to be ignorant of Coleridge’s famous lectures.
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Metadrama and the Informer in Shakespeare and JonsonBill Angus, Massey University in New Zealand
Explores disturbing connections between authors and informers revealed in the metadrama of Shakespeare and Jonson
Taking on the shadowy figure of the early modern informer, this book argues that far more than mere artistic experimentation is happening here. In case studies of metadramatic plays, and the devices which Shakespeare and Jonson constantly revisit, the book offers critical insight into intrinsic connections between informers and authors, discovering an uneasy sense of common practice at the core of the metadrama, which drives both its self-awareness and its paranoia.
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