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.
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, ...
Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body
1st Edition
Edited
By Sujata Iyengar
December 13, 2021
This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, uncovering and historicizing the complex negotiations among physical embodiment, emotional response, and communally-sanctioned behavior in Shakespeare's literary and material world. ...
Embodied Cognition and Shakespeare's Theatre: The Early Modern Body-Mind
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurie Johnson, John Sutton, Evelyn Tribble
December 13, 2021
This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of mind and body in Shakespeare’s world. Informed by The Body in Parts, the essays in this book respond also to the notion of an early modern ‘body-mind’ in which ...
Mary Wroth and Shakespeare
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Salzman, Marion Wynne-Davies
December 13, 2021
Over the last twenty five years, scholarship on Early Modern women writers has produced editions and criticisms, both on various groups and individual authors. The work on Mary Wroth has been particularly impressive at integrating her poetry, prose and drama into the canon. This in turn has led to ...
Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy
1st Edition
By Peter Kishore Saval
December 13, 2021
Reading Shakespeare through Philosophy advocates that the beauty of Shakespearean drama is inseparable from its philosophical power. Shakespeare’s plays make demands on us even beyond our linguistic attention and historical empathy: they require thinking, and the concepts of philosophy can provide ...
Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies
1st Edition
By Ariane M. Balizet
August 02, 2021
A modern-day Taming of the Shrew that concludes at a high school prom. An agoraphobic Olivia from Twelfth Night sending video dispatches from her bedroom. A time-traveling teenager finding romance in the house of Capulet. Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies posits that Shakespeare in popular culture is ...
Limited Shakespeare: The Reason of Finitude
1st Edition
By Julián Jiménez Heffernan
June 30, 2021
Shakespeare’s poetic-dramatic worlds are inescapably limited. There is always, in his poems and plays, a force (a contingent drive, a pre-textual undertow, a rational-critical momentum, an ironic stance, the deflections of error) coercing plot and meaning to their end. By examining the work of ...
Spectrums of Shakespearean Crossdressing: The Art of Performing Women
1st Edition
By Courtney Bailey Parker
June 30, 2021
Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines these varied types of female characters in ...
The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Camilla Caporicci, Armelle Sabatier
June 30, 2021
Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the complex aesthetic process of "picturing" in early modern English literature. The essays in this volume offer a comprehensive and varied ...
Shakespeare and Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Locke Hart
September 30, 2020
Shakespeare and Asia brings together innovative scholars from Asia or with Asian connections to explore these matters of East-West and global contexts then and now. The collection ranges from interpretations of Shakespeare’s plays and his relations with other authors like Marlowe and Dickens ...