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.
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...
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 ...
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...