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.
Shakespeare's Law
1st Edition
By Mark Fortier
January 29, 2024
Shakespeare's Law is a critical overview of law and legal issues within the life, career, and works of William Shakespeare as well as those that arise from the endless array of activities that happen today in the name of Shakespeare. Mark Fortier argues that Shakespeare’s attitudes ...
Shakespearean Spaces in Australian Literary Adaptations for Children and Young Adults
1st Edition
By Michael Marokakis
January 29, 2024
Shakespearean Spaces in Australian Literary Adaptations for Children and Young Adults offers a comprehensive examination of Shakespearean adaptations written by Australian authors for children and Young Adults. The 20-year period crossing the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries came to ...
Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Co-Author
1st Edition
By Mark Bradbeer
September 25, 2023
This book presents original material which indicates that Aemilia Lanyer – female writer, feminist, and Shakespeare contemporary – is Shakespeare’s hidden and arguably most significant co-author. Once dismissed as the mere paramour of Shakespeare’s patron, Lord Hunsdon, she is ...
Shakespeare and Emotional Expression: Finding Feeling through Colour
1st Edition
By Bríd Phillips
September 25, 2023
Shakespeare and Emotional Expression offers an exciting new way of considering emotional transactions in Shakespearean drama. The book is significant in its scope and originality as it uses the innovative medium of colour terms and references to interrogate the early modern emotional register. By ...
Shakespeare and Happiness
1st Edition
By Kathleen French
September 25, 2023
Shakespeare and Happiness is a study of attitudes to happiness in the early modern period and in Shakespeare’s plays. It considers the conflicting influences of religion and Aristotelian philosophy in shaping attitudes to the possibility of attaining happiness. By being the first book to focus ...
Shakespeare’s Returning Warriors – and Ours
1st Edition
By Alan Warren Friedman
September 25, 2023
Shakespeare’s Returning Warriors – and Ours takes its primary inspiration from the contemporary U.S. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) crisis in soldiers transitioning from battlefields back into society. It begins by examining how ancient societies sought to ease the return of soldiers in...
Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet: Word, Music, and Dance
1st Edition
By Jonas Kellermann
May 31, 2023
Bringing together current intermedial discourses on Shakespeare, music, and dance with the affective turn in the humanities, Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of "unspeakable" love in one of the most famous love stories in ...
Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Bayer, Joseph Navitsky
May 31, 2023
Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States extends the growing body of scholarship on Shakespeare’s appropriation by examining how the plays have been invoked during periods of extreme social, political, and racial turmoil. How do the ways that Shakespeare is adapted, studied, ...
Shakespeare’s Influence on Karl Marx: The Shakespearean Roots of Marxism
1st Edition
By Christian A. Smith
May 31, 2023
This volume presents a close reading of instances of Shakespearean quotations, allusions, imagery and rhetoric found in Karl Marx’s collected works and letters, which provides evidence that Shakespeare’s writings exerted a formative influence on Marx and the development of his work. Through a ...
Shakespeare’s Military Spouses and Twenty-First-Century Warfare
1st Edition
By Kelsey Ridge
May 31, 2023
This volume presents a fresh look at the military spouses in Shakespeare’s Othello, 1 Henry IV, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, and Coriolanus, vital to understanding the plays themselves. By analysing the characters as military spouses, we can better understand current dynamics in ...
The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis
1st Edition
By Valerie M. Fazel, Louise Geddes
May 31, 2023
The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis argues that fandom offers new models for a twenty-first century reading practice that embraces affective pleasure and subjective self-positioning as a means of understanding a text. Part critical study, part source book, The Shakespeare ...
Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form
1st Edition
By Jonathan P. A. Sell
January 09, 2023
Winner of the AEDEAN "Enrique García Díez" Literature Research Award 2023 Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024 Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for ...