Bücher der Reihe Oxford Shakespeare Topics

This study traces the reception of Shakespeare in the critical literature from the end of Victorianism to the present day. It charts a course through the turbulent waters of the 20th-century's intense and prolific engagement with Shakespeare, dramatist and poet.

This introduction to Shakespeare's work offers clear but ambitious readings of the late plays. It incorporates collaborative works, revised works, and textual analyses in its discussion of the characteristics of this phase in Shakespeare's career. It also considers its relationships with the work of Fletcher, Middleton, and with Shakespeare's earlier work.

This book explores the representation of issues including sex, gender, politics, religion, family relationships, and death in biographies of Shakespeare, from Nicholas Rowe's in the early 18th century to recent biographies by Stephen Greenblatt, James Shapiro, Jonathan Bate, Germaine Greer, Katherine Duncan-Jones, Park Honan, and Rene Weis.