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Review of The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 1

By Jesus Montaño

The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 1, edited by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna […]

Review of Richard Strier’s Shakespearean Issues – Agency, Skepticism and Other Puzzles

By Maria Sequeira Mendes

The Wittgensteinian motto “Don’t think, but look,” which underpins Resistant Structures, also drives Richard Strier’s recent book, Shakespearean Issues – […]

Review of Penelope Geng, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England: Drama, Law, and Emotion

By Iman Sheeha

Situated at the intersection between the fields of law and literature, Penelope Geng’s book, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England: Drama, […]

Review of Karen Raber and Karen Edwards’ Shakespeare and Animals: A Dictionary

By Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey

One of the most recent volumes in the Arden Shakespeare Dictionary series, Shakespeare and Animals aims to provide entries that […]

Review of Arthur L. Little Jr.’s White People in Shakespeare: Essays on Race, Culture, and the Elite.

By Hannah Elizabeth Bowling

Arthur L. Little Jr.’s edited collection, White People in Shakespeare: Essays on Race, Culture, and the Elite (London: Bloomsbury 2023), […]

Adrian Noble’s How to Direct Shakespeare and Greg Doran’s My Shakespeare: A Director’s Journey through the First Folio

By Michael P. Jensen

Two former Artistic Directors of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) published books within seven months of each other. Both are […]

Review of Robert Appelbaum’s The Renaissance Discovery of Violence, from Boccaccio to Shakespeare

By Samantha Dressel

Robert Appelbaum’s The Renaissance Discovery of Violence, from Boccaccio to Shakespeare (Anthem Press, 2022), takes on the problem of depictions […]

Review of David M. Bergeron’s Shakespeare through Letters

By Erin A. Sadlack

Teachers and lovers of Shakespeare’s plays will especially enjoy this thoughtful book by David Bergeron, who combines his career-long experience […]

A Review of Amanda Wrigley and John Wyver’s Screen plays: Theatre plays on British television

By Michael P. Jensen

People working on “Screen Shakespeare” may overlook this collection of essays exploring the perks and problems of putting all sorts […]

A Review of Kimberly Anne Coles’s Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England

By Brooke Conti

The stakes of religious identity for early moderns were both extraordinarily high and cast in terms that can feel alien […]

A Review of Thomas Fulton’s The Book of Books

By Dan Breen

Over the last two decades, scholars of the literature and history of the Reformations in England have begun to devote […]

A Review of Women Talk Back to Shakespeare

By Thomas G. Olsen

This student-friendly volume of the new Routledge series “New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture: Confluences and Contexts” seeks to […]