Bücher der Reihe Playing Shakespeare's Characters

Playing Shakespeare's Monarchs and Madmen is the third volume in the Peter Lang series, Playing Shakespeare's Characters. Distinguished contributors discuss approaches to Shakespeare's portrayals of power and the lessons they hold for us in the the era of Brexit and Trump.

Playing Shakespeare's Lovers examines Shakespeare's romantic characters from multiple perspectives.

The essays in Playing Shakespeare's Villains trouble our assumptions of what-and who-constitutes "villainy" in Shakespeare's works, through probing and provocative analyses of the murky moral logics at play in the Bard's oeuvre.

In Playing Shakespeare's Rebels and Tyrants contributors (actors, directors, scholars, educators, etc.) analyze the concepts of rebellion, tyranny, leadership, empathy with only references to Elizabethan and Jacobean studies, but also to Donald Trump, the social justice movement, and the January 6, 2021 insurrection.