Product Description: Shakespeare Studies is an annual volume containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from around the world. This issue features a Forum on Early Modern Animal/Human Interfaces. In addition, there are articles on Simile, Paternity and Identity in Henry V, Shakespeare's Sleeping Workers, and Comedy and the Erotics of the Grave in The Widow's Tears, a review article, and reviews of seventeen books of current interest...read more

3rd edition

Product Description: Word against Word offers a new approach to Shakespearean drama, and in particular to Shakespeare's Richard II, through an extended engagement with the Bakhtinian concept of art as a form of social utterance. The book is the first to explore this central Bakhtinian conception and its associated notions of social accent, dialogism, and heteroglossia in the context of drama and of Shakespeare studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)