A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the co

Each essay in this Companion examines one or more literary texts and a religious tradition to illustrate how we can understand both literature and religion bett