Product Description: Combining legal, historical and literary approaches to the practice and theory of marriage in Shakespeare's time, this study discovers a broad range of information in a selection of Shakespeare's plays. Jerry and Mary Sokol approach the legal history of marriage as part of cultural history...read more

Product Description: This encyclopedia-style dicitonary explores early modern social life, legal thought, and the interactions within Shakespearean drama.

Product Description: This study of an extraordinary work of dramatic literature also addresses questions of the nature and dissemination of the "scientific revolution." These facets are locked together: although the book does not deny that 'The Tempest' had deep roots in classical literature and elsewhere, it maintains that the play's remarkable dramaturgy and symbolism reflect subtle matters uniquely pertinet to its own fascinating time...read more

Product Description: This work treats a single Shakespeare play from a number of perspectives. The author combines insights from contemporary psychology with art, social and stage histories to challenge the limits of current positivist critical theories...read more

Product Description: A collection of original essays on Shakespeare's plays and poems, by a range of academics, practicing psychotherapists, and writer/theatre-director Jonathan Miller. Produced by Free Association Books, London. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.