Product Description: Four hundred years of Shakespeare in Europe offers a wide range of essays that capture the unprecedented current boom in the study of 'Shakespeare in Europe." The various contributions cover three basic areas in the history of Shakespearean reception on the European continent and in Britain: translations, productions, and appropriations in more general terms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This book studies fictional works about real, historical authors. The twenty essays in this collection examine authors and author/characters from Brazil to Germany and from the United States to Greece. Gender issues, sexual preferences, and political affiliations are considered, as well as the anxiety of influence and the limits of representation. (view table of contents)

Product Description: These essays present some significant Italian contributions to Shakespeare studies. The chapters are grouped into sections on theory and practice, theme and culture, and language and ideology. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Italy loomed large on the English Renaissance stage. But what did Italy signify to these playwrights and their audiences? Renaissance scholars from around the world each contribute a different perspective to this central question...read more

Product Description: The connection between Renaissance ideas about the character of individual nations and the presentation of stage characters of various nationalities in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries is examined in this volume.