Charles Lamb 
Tales from Shakespeare 

Published in 1908, this book considers the work of William Shakespeare. Providing notes and commentaries on some of his poems and plays, as well as context from English history, and analysis from his …

English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing tha …

Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this …

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeare“s plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this …

I am Heathcliff! Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. The Yorkshire moors tell an epic story of love, revenge and redemption. Rescued from the Liverpool docks as a …

An insomniac is watching TV in a language he doesn“t understand; a woman is stood in a garden stretching her arms to the sky. The whole world is asleep and something extraordinary is about to …

Professor Hussey looks at the vocabulary, syntax and register of Renaissance English, following this with a more detailed analysis of particular kinds of language in the plays such as prose, verse, r …

The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts – and ghost writing. Shakespeare“s Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly th …

This collection explores the consequences of accentism—an under-researched issue that intersects with racism and classism—in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures, past and present. …