Shakespeare Criticism
About the Book Series
These comprehensive critical collections are a must-have for students, libraries and scholars alike. Each volume gathers the most influential criticism, key contemporary interpretations and reviews of the most influential productions of Shakespeare's masterworks.
As You Like It: Critical Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward Tomarken
August 25, 2009
This essay collection offers a lengthy introduction describing trends in criticism and theatrical interpretation of As You Like It. Twenty-six major essays on the play, including several written especially for this volume highlight the work, coupled with twenty-three reviews of various productions,...
Pericles: Critical Essays
1st Edition
By David Skeele
August 14, 2009
Pericles: Critical Essays brings together the most essential critical essays and theatrical reviews of Shakespeare's play from the late 17th century to the present, providing a representative gathering of critical opinion of Pericles over the centuries. David Skeele's introduction identifies the ...
The Taming of the Shrew: Critical Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Dana Aspinall
June 22, 2009
This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments ...
The Merchant of Venice: Critical Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By John W. Mahon, Ellen Macleod Mahon
August 02, 2002
This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play. The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of ...
Othello: Critical Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Kolin
December 21, 2001
Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. Othello: Critical Essays explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more....
Hamlet: Critical Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Arthur F. Kinney
November 16, 2001
Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the international contributors to Hamlet: New Critical Essays contribute major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of Hamlet. This book is ...
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorothea Kehler
November 17, 2000
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory....
The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays
1st Edition
By Robert S. Miola
November 17, 2000
This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the ...
Love's Labour's Lost: Critical Essays
1st Edition
By Felicia Hardison Londre
November 02, 2000
This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; ...
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By James Schiffer
July 24, 2000
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars...