The Romantics invented Shakespeare studies, and in losing contact with our origins, we have not been able to develop an adequate alternative foundation on which

With this volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook inaugurates a new feature-a special section, which in this issue is 'shakespeare in the Age of Cognit

Grouped around four central themes – illness and impairment, disabling processes, care and control, and communication and representations – this collection

Taking a new approach to the metaphor of the political body, this book examines Shakespeare's representation of that body as possessing epistemological facultie

Through the discursive political lenses of Occupy Wall Street and the 99%, this volume of essays examines the study of Shakespeare and of literature more genera