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 HAMLET IN AN ERA OF TEXTUAL EXHAUSTION
1st Edition
Edited
By Sonya Freeman Loftis, Allison Kellar, Lisa Ulevich
December 10, 2019
"Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture’s oversaturation with this most canonical of texts. Combining adaptation theory and performance theory with examinations of avant-garde performances ...
Shakespeare and Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Exchange
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Lupton, David Goldstein
December 10, 2019
This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted picture of Shakespeare's scenes of hospitality—with their numerous scenes of greeting, feeding, ...
Shakespeare's Folly: Philosophy, Humanism, Critical Theory
1st Edition
By Sam Hall
December 10, 2019
This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities of ...
Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse: Eleven Days at Newington Butts
1st Edition
By Laurie Johnson
December 10, 2019
The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare’s career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. A mile outside London, and relatively disused by the time Shakespeare began his career in the theatre, this playhouse has ...
Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture: Appropriation and Inversion
1st Edition
By Ailsa Ferguson
December 10, 2019
Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson presents an interdisciplinary ...
Shakespeare, Italy, and Transnational Exchange: Early Modern to Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Enza De Francisci, Chris Stamatakis
December 10, 2019
This interdisciplinary, transhistorical collection brings together international scholars from English literature, Italian studies, performance history, and comparative literature to offer new perspectives on the vibrant engagements between Shakespeare and Italian theatre, literary culture, and ...
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and Civic Life: The Boundaries of Civic Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvia Bigliazzi, Lisanna Calvi
December 10, 2019
This volume introduces ‘civic Shakespeare’ as a new and complex category entailing the dynamic relation between the individual and the community on issues of authority, liberty, and cultural production. It investigates civic Shakespeare through Romeo and Juliet as a case study for an interrogation ...
Shakespeare�s Asian Journeys: Critical Encounters, Cultural Geographies, and the Politics of Travel
1st Edition
Edited
By Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, Judy Celine Ick, Poonam Trivedi
December 10, 2019
This volume gives Asia’s Shakespeares the critical, theoretical, and political space they demand, offering rich, alternative ways of thinking about Asia, Shakespeare, and Asian Shakespeare based on Asian experiences and histories. Challenging and supplementing the dominant critical and theoretical ...
Shakespeare�s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter
1st Edition
By Marlena Tronicke
December 10, 2019
Shakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare’s dramatic suicides. It addresses all plays featuring suicides and near-suicides in chronological order from Titus Andronicus to Antony and Cleopatra, thus establishing...
Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy
1st Edition
By Derek Gottlieb
December 10, 2019
This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies, serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human, responses that invite scholarly investigation and explanation. Taking its cue from Stanley Cavell’s influential...
Women and Mobility on Shakespeare�s Stage: Migrant Mothers and Broken Homes
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Mazzola
December 10, 2019
Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing—lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order—Shakespeare was interested in such women’s plight, how ...
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,...