Product Description: On April 23, 1916, Oxford University Press published a magnificent volume entitled A Book of Homage to Shakespeare, edited by Professor Israel Gollancz. Created to mark the tercentenary of Shakespeare's death in the very midst of the First World War, it was a substantial folio-sized volume of 557 pages bound in white leather with Shakespeare's coat of arms embossed in gold, with nine leaves of plates, each protected by tissue: with textured pages laid out with a generous and elegant text design, it is a strikingly beautiful material object in its own right, quite apart from its contents, which include contributions by writers from Rudyard Kipling to Rabindranath Tagore, from John Galsworthy to Maurice Maeterlinck...read more

Product Description: Both an enhanced digital edition―the first edited specifically for undergraduates―and a handsome print volume, The Norton Shakespeare, Third Edition, provides a freshly edited text, acclaimed apparatus, and an unmatched value. The attractive print and digital bundle offers students a great reading experience at an affordable price in two ways―a hardcover volume for their dorm shelf and lifetime library, and a digital edition ideal for in-class use...read more

Product Description: Both an enhanced digital edition―the first edited specifically for undergraduates―and a handsome print volume, The Norton Shakespeare, Third Edition, provides a freshly edited text, acclaimed apparatus, and an unmatched value. The attractive print and digital bundle offers students a great reading experience at an affordable price in two ways―a hardcover volume for their dorm shelf and lifetime library, and a digital edition ideal for in-class use...read more

Product Description: Women Making Shakespeare presents a series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources, including interviews with directors, actors, and other performance practitioners, to explore the place (or constitutive absence) of women in the Shakespearean text and in the history of Shakespearean reception - the many ways women, working individually or in communities, have shaped and transformed the reception, performance, and teaching of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the present...read more

Product Description: What do we mean when we speak of the 'late style' of a given writer, artist or composer? And what exactly do we mean by 'late Shakespeare'? Gordon McMullan argues that, far from being a natural phenomenon common to a handful of geniuses in old age or in proximity to death, late style is in fact a critical construct...read more

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Product Description: Renaissance Configurations is a ground-breaking collection of essays on the structures and strategies of Early Modern culture - as embodied in issues of gender, sexuality and politics - by a group of critics from the new generation of Early Modern specialists...read more

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Product Description: This is a collection of essays on the structures and strategies of early modern culture - as embodied in the issues of gender, sexuality and politics. The book focuses on the relations of public and private, of verbal and spatial, of textual and material, and the reading and re-reading of texts, both canonical and uncanonical, with textual and historical criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: John Fletcher (1579-1625) was Shakespeare's successor as chief playwright for the King's Company and wrote or collaborated on fifty-four plays. Yet although his work forms the single most substantial canon of drama to come down from the English Renaissance, it has remained largely unexplored by critics...read more

Product Description: This text offers a series of readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare's late plays to the Interregnum. Rejecting both the customary chronological span bounded by the years 1603-1642 (which presumes dramatic activity stopped with the closing of the theatres), and the negative critical attitudes that have dogged the study of tragicomedy, the essays in this collection examine a series of issues central to the possibility of a politics for the genre...read more