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, 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...
Radical Shakespeare: Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career
1st Edition
By Chris Fitter
July 08, 2013
This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries, ...
Re-playing Shakespeare in Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Poonam Trivedi, Minami Ryuta
May 30, 2012
This book reviews the "playing" of Shakespeare in which there is a re-staging and a re-writing -- through adaptation, appropriation, or acculturation -- of the Western Shakespeare into the gestural, symbolic, stylized, or ritualized worlds of Asian theatre languages. It examines this interface in ...
Shakespeare and Philosophy
1st Edition
By Stanley Stewart
August 16, 2011
Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about "Shakespeare" as a subject of philosophy, from the seventeenth-century to the present. Stewart's volume ...
Crossing Gender in Shakespeare: Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within
1st Edition
By James W. Stone
May 16, 2011
In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of the dialogue between Shakespeare and his ...