Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering Shakespeare alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, popular culture, and history, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Imperial Concerns in Early Modern Drama: Anti-Imperialism and Race
1st Edition
By Philip Goldfarb Styrt
August 03, 2026
Imperial Concerns in Early Modern Drama: Anti-Imperialism and Race offers a compelling reassessment of how major Renaissance playwrights, including William Shakespeare, engaged with early discourses of empire. Challenging narratives that align early modern drama with emergent imperial ambitions, ...
Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Rival Poet: The Narrative of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
1st Edition
By Mark Bradbeer
July 29, 2026
Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Rival Poet explores Shakespeare’s sonnet series and A Lover’s Complaint, both published in 1609, and the sublimely mysterious and metaphysical poem, The Phoenix and the Turtle (1601). These poems are viewed in their historical context: in particular, in the context ...
Genre in Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies: The Dramatic Canon of William Shakespeare
1st Edition
By Joseph Rudman
April 28, 2026
This timely monograph explores the critical, yet often overlooked, role of genre in non-traditional authorship attribution studies. Drawing from linguistics, rhetoric, stylistics, forensic linguistics, and computational methods –including large language models (LLMs) – the book argues that genre ...
Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare: Queer Legacies and Queer World-Making
1st Edition
By Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau
February 25, 2026
Moving beyond a cisgender, heteronormative framework, this book investigates Shakespeare’s queer legacy on Emily Dickinson’s work, particularly how this legacy has inflected Dickinson’s queer world-making and her conception not only of gender and sexuality, but also of the lyric itself. Drawing on ...
Shakespeare in Pakistan: Appropriating the Bard in Theatres, Cinema and Academia
1st Edition
By Zakia Resshid Ehsen
December 02, 2025
Shakespeare in Pakistan offers a comprehensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan, with a focus on how these works engage with creative, indigenous, cultural, culinary, and religious expressions of identity. The book traces the historical progression of ...
Local/Global Shakespeare and Advertising
1st Edition
Edited
By Márta Minier, Maria Elisa Montironi, Cristina Paravano
November 27, 2025
Local/ Global Shakespeare and Advertising examines the local/ global and rhizomatic phenomenon of Shakespeare as advertised and Shakespeare as advertising. Starting from the importance and the awareness of advertising practices in the early modern period, the volume follows the evolution of the use...
Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women
1st Edition
By Gül Kurtuluş
November 27, 2025
Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women explores women’s speeches in selected plays by Shakespeare, highlighting women’s discerning insight as a vital ingredient in these selected works. The book discusses the use of rhetoric in speeches by women as a cementing material that supports the casing of the ...
Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare: Scenes of Thanking in Shakespeare’s Plays
1st Edition
By Chahra Beloufa
October 26, 2025
Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics of thanking as a significant speech act in Shakespearean plays. The word “thanks” appears nearly 400 times in 37 Shakespearean plays, calling for a careful investigation of its veracity ...
Shakespeare and Phenomenology: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Daniel Johnston
September 18, 2025
This book considers how Shakespeare’s theatre investigates and reveals “Being-in-the-world”. Through the lens of phenomenology (the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience) Johnston examines how Shakespeare’s texts and dramaturgy reveal aspects of Being. This volume explores ...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare
1st Edition
By Kelsey Ridge
July 17, 2025
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. This volume takes as case studies 1 Henry IV, Othello, Macbeth, Much Ado About ...
Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare: Hospitality and Hostility in the Plays
1st Edition
By Joan Fitzpatrick
June 08, 2025
Hospitality to strangers has become an increasingly prevalent topic in recent years, from political upheavals resulting in the displacement of millions of people, to the emergence of our collective obligations towards strangers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Yet the vexed question of when to welcome...
Ineffable Bodies: Heroism on the Early Modern Stage
1st Edition
By Christine Sukic
May 29, 2025
Ineffable Bodies focuses on early modern heroism in drama through the notion of ineffability in order to define new dramatic forms. Drawing from Vladimir Jankélévitch’s studies on the ineffable, the book focuses on heroic bodies on the early modern stage as the seat of an aesthetic shift in drama: ...