Product Description: The Merry Wives of Windsor has recently experienced a resurgence of critical interest. At times considered one of Shakespeare’s weaker plays, it is often dismissed or marginalized; however, developments in feminist, ecocritical and new historicist criticism have opened up new perspectives and this collection of 18 essays by top Shakespeare scholars sheds fresh light on the play...read more

Product Description: Shakespeare and Women situates Shakespeare's female characters in multiple historical contexts, ranging from the early modern England in which they originated to the contemporary Western world in which our own encounters with them are staged...read more

Product Description: First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Offers a fresh approach to Shakespeare's English history plays, examining them in the context of a Renaissance world transformed by cultural change. The text makes reference to historical authority and causation, the problems of anachronism and nostalgia, and the historical construction of class.

Surveys the history of Shakespeare's tragedies as presented on stage and offers a personalized, rather than strictly scholarly approach to each play