This lively and provocative study offers a radical reappraisal of a century of Shakespearean theatre. Topics addressed include modernist Shakespearean performan

Did you know the name Jessica was first used in The Merchant of Venice? Or that Freud's idea of a healthy sex life came from Shakespeake? Nearly four hundred ye

How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence stagin

From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern cultu

This volume, first published in 2000, draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama.