Bøger i Shakespeare Criticism serien

Shedding light on one of Shakespeare's most intriguing and significant plays, this book features contributions from leading scholars who critically examine the play from a variety of perspectives. It reflects the interest in the play and presents a range of approaches, including historical, feminist, performative and psychoanalytical criticisms.

This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play.The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the international contributors to Hamlet: New Critical Essays contribute major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of Hamlet.

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, this book offers interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of "King Lear".

Offers critical analysis, supported with historical and bibliographical information about Shakespeare's "Macbeth". This book addresses early modern themes, with attention to the protagonists and the discourses of politics, class, gender, the emotions, and the economy, along with discussions of significant 'minor' characters.

This is the first collection of critical essays devoted exclusively to Venus and Adonis, which surveys the history of criticism about the poem and its significance.

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions.

This text focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Aprroaches range from new historicism to the new bibliography, from formalism to feminism, from recept to history to cultural materialism.

The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception (and adaptation) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present.

This volume of essays traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies.