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.
Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others: Finding the Heart of the Play
1st Edition
By Sidney Homan
November 28, 2024
Sidney Homan defines a pivotal line as “a moment in the script that serves as a pathway into the larger play … a magnet to which the rest of the play, scenes before and after, adheres.” He offers his personal choices of such lines in five plays by Shakespeare and works by Beckett, Brecht, Pinter, ...
Shakespeare’s Mirrors
1st Edition
By Edward Evans
September 26, 2024
Clear mirrors and The Geneva Bible, revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeare’s drive towards a new purpose for drama. Shakespeare reversed the conventional mirror metaphor for drama, implying drama cannot reflect the substance of human nature, and developed a method of...
Histrionic Hamlet: Shakespeare's Ultimate Metatheatrical Experiment
1st Edition
By Piotr Sadowski
September 18, 2024
According to psychological research on acting, the histrionic personality consists of a compulsive tendency to play-act, exaggerate emotions, succumb to illusions, to seek attention through speech, body language, and costume, to be seductive and impulsive. An original intervention in the critical ...
Hermeneutic Shakespeare
1st Edition
By Min Jiao
August 26, 2024
This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition, providing insight into the foundations, theories, and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare. Central to this research, this volume investigates fundamental questions including: what is philosophical...
Tombs in Shakespearean Drama: Monumental Theater
1st Edition
By H. Austin Whitver
August 26, 2024
Tombs in Shakespearean Drama explores the rhetorical deployment of tombs and monuments on the early modern stage, demonstrating their historiographic power and mythmaking potential. By analyzing references to tombs in plays by Shakespeare and others in conjunction with extant monuments, this volume...
Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women
1st Edition
By Gül Kurtuluş
June 24, 2024
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 ...
Local/Global Shakespeare and Advertising
1st Edition
Edited
By Márta Minier, Maria Elisa Montironi, Cristina Paravano
June 21, 2024
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...
Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare: Scenes of Thanking in Shakespeare’s Plays
1st Edition
By Chahra Beloufa
May 28, 2024
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 ...
Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust
1st Edition
By Caroline Wiesenthal Lion
May 27, 2024
Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust uses Jewish theology to mount a courageous new reading of a four-hundred-year-old play, The Merchant of Venice. While victimhood and antisemitism have been the understandable focus of the Merchant critical history ...
Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture: Inhabiting Contested Thresholds
1st Edition
By Kaye McLelland
May 27, 2024
Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines of queer theory and disability studies. It investigates the violence feared from, and directed at, inhabitants of the ‘betwixt and between’ spaces of early modern literature and culture...
Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival
1st Edition
By Darren Freebury-Jones
January 29, 2024
Robert Greene holds a significant place in our understanding of Elizabethan literature. This book offers the most rigorous attempt yet undertaken to determine the scope of the playwright’s canon through analyses of Greene’s verse style, vocabulary, rhyming habits, and the dramatist’s phraseology in...
Shakespeare and the Grace of Words: Language, Theology, Metaphysics
1st Edition
By Valentin Gerlier
January 29, 2024
Crossing the boundaries between literature, philosophy and theology, Shakespeare and the Grace of Words pioneers a reading strategy that approaches language as grounded in praise; that is, as affirmation and articulation of the goodness of Being. Offering a metaphysically astute theology of ...