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 and Indian Cinemas: "Local Habitations"
1st Edition
Edited
By Poonam Trivedi, Paromita Chakravarti
September 30, 2020
This book is the first to explore the rich archive of Shakespeare in Indian cinemas, including less familiar, Indian language cinemas to contribute to the assessment of the expanding repertoire of Shakespeare films worldwide. Essays cover mainstream and regional Indian cinemas such as the better ...
Shakespeare's Great Tragedies: Experiencing Their Impact
1st Edition
By John Hardy
September 30, 2020
Shakespeare's great tragedies portray through their richly imagined worlds the inescapable fact of human mortality. As the work of a great creative genius, they are so diverse that critical formulas used to describe their overall impact tend to be somewhat suspect. Their impact follows from a ...
Shakespeare’s Props: Memory and Cognition
1st Edition
By Sophie Duncan
September 30, 2020
Cognitive approaches to drama have enriched our understanding of Early Modern playtexts, acting and spectatorship. This monograph is the first full-length study of Shakespeare’s props and their cognitive impact. Shakespeare’s most iconic props have become transhistorical, transnational metonyms for...
Casual Shakespeare: Three Centuries of Verbal Echoes
1st Edition
By Regula Trillini
August 14, 2020
Casual Shakespeare is the first full-length study of the thousands of quotations both in and of Shakespeare's works which represent intertextuality outside of what is conventionally appreciated as literary value. Drawing on the insights gained as a result of a major, ongoing&...
Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies
1st Edition
Edited
By Dennis Austin Britton, Melissa Walter
August 14, 2020
This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about what should be counted as sources in Shakespeare studies. The essays demonstrate that source study remains an indispensable mode of inquiry for understanding Shakespeare, his authorship and audiences,...
Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World
1st Edition
By Patricia Akhimie
August 14, 2020
Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading Shakespeare’s plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature - how-to books on self-improvement - this book ...
Shakespearean Temporalities: History on the Early Modern Stage
1st Edition
By Lukas Lammers
August 14, 2020
Shakespearean Temporalities addresses a critical neglect in Early Modern Performance and Shakespeare Studies, revising widely prevailing and long-standing assumptions about the performance and reception of history on the early modern stage. Demonstrating that theatre, at the turn of the seventeenth...
Shakespeare in Hate: Emotions, Passions, Selfhood
1st Edition
By Peter Kishore Saval
June 30, 2020
Hate, malice, rage, and enmity: what would Shakespeare’s plays be without these demonic, unruly passions? This book studies how the tirades and unrestrained villainy of Shakespeare’s art explode the decorum and safety of our sanitized lives and challenge the limits of our selfhood. Everyone knows ...
The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare
1st Edition
By Kevin Gilvary
December 17, 2019
Modern biographies of William Shakespeare abound; however, close scrutiny of the surviving records clearly show that there is insufficient material for a cradle to grave account of his life, that most of what is written about him cannot be verified from primary sources, and that Shakespearean ...
Shakespeare and Complexity Theory
1st Edition
By Claire Hansen
December 12, 2019
In this new monograph, Claire Hansen demonstrates how Shakespeare can be understood as a complex system, and how complexity theory can provide compelling and original readings of Shakespeare’s plays. The book utilises complexity theory to illuminate early modern theatrical practice, Shakespeare ...
Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy
1st Edition
By Jonathan Goossen
December 10, 2019
Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy relates new understandings of Aristotle’s dramatic theory to the comedy of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Typically, scholars of Renaissance drama have treated Aristotle’s theory only as a possible historical influence on Jonson’s and Shakespeare’s ...
Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Rethinking Cosmopolis
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Gruber
December 10, 2019
The work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has often been the testing-ground for innovations in literary studies, but this has not been true of ecocriticism. This is partly because, until recently, most ecologically minded writers have located the origins of ecological crisis in the ...