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 Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language
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 Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking ...
Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Volume II: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
January 09, 2023
Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentrated on related matters, including geography and language. In both volumes, a key focus is close analysis of the text and an attention to Shakespeare’s...
Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Volume I: Geography and Language
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
September 26, 2022
Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare’s trans-cultural writing through the interrelations and interactions of binaries including theory and practice, past and present, aesthetics and ethics, freedom and tyranny, ...
Shakespeare’s Audiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Matteo Pangallo, Peter Kirwan
September 26, 2022
Shakespeare wrote for a theater in which the audience was understood to be, and at times invited to be, active and participatory. How have Shakespeare’s audiences, from the sixteenth century to the present, responded to that invitation? In what ways have consumers across different cultural contexts...
Rasa Theory in Shakespearian Tragedies
1st Edition
By Swapna Koshy
May 30, 2022
This book adds a unique eastern perspective to the ever growing corpus of Shakespeare criticism. The ancient Sanskrit theory of Rasa – the aesthete’s emotional response to performing arts – is explicated in detail and applied to Shakespeare’s tragic masterpieces. Bharata, who wrote about Rasa in ...
First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590-1790
1st Edition
By Faith D. Acker
May 06, 2022
For more than four centuries, cultural preferences, literary values, critical contexts, and personal tastes have governed readers’ responses to Shakespeare’s sonnets. Early private readers often considered these poems in light of the religious, political, and humanist values by which they lived. ...
Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations
1st Edition
Edited
By Marina Gerzic, Aidan Norrie
May 06, 2022
Four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and digital media. Drawing on theories of play ...
Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe: Western Anti-Monarchism, The Earl of Essex Challenge, and Political Stagecraft
1st Edition
By Chris Fitter
April 29, 2022
This book is a landmark study of Shakespeare’s politics as revealed in his later History Plays. It offers the first ever survey of anti-monarchism in Western literature, history and philosophy, tracked from Hesiod and Homer through to contemporaries of Shakespeare such as George Buchanan and the ...
Shakespeare in the World: Cross-Cultural Adaptation in Europe and Colonial India, 1850-1900
1st Edition
By Suddhaseel Sen
April 29, 2022
Shakespeare in the World traces the reception histories and adaptations of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, when his works became well-known to non-Anglophone communities in both Europe and colonial India. Sen provides thorough and searching examinations of nineteenth-century theatrical, ...
Francis Bacon’s Contribution to Shakespeare: A New Attribution Method
1st Edition
By Barry R. Clarke
February 06, 2019
Francis Bacon's Contribution to Shakespeare advocates a paradigm shift away from a single-author theory of the Shakespeare work towards a many-hands theory. Here, the middle ground is adopted between competing so-called Stratfordian and alternative single-author conspiracy theories. In the process,...
Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Form of the Book: Contested Scriptures
1st Edition
Edited
By Travis DeCook, Alan Galey
July 17, 2014
Why do Shakespeare and the English Bible seem to have an inherent relationship with each other? How have these two monumental traditions in the history of the book functioned as mutually reinforcing sources of cultural authority? How do material books and related reading practices serve as specific...
Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance
1st Edition
By Catherine Silverstone
July 03, 2014
Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to account for – but not to rationalize – the ongoing and pernicious effects of various forms of violence as...