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Kristina Bedford’s “Coriolanus” at The National (42.4, no. 215, Winter 1992, p. 58)

By David George

Kristina Bedford’s book (Cranbury, NJ: Susquehanna University Press, 1992. 351 pp. $55.00) is an account of the evolution of Sir […]

Review of Robert Darcy’s Misanthropoetics: Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England

By Iman Sheeha

Review of Robert Darcy, Misanthropoetics: Social Flight and Literary Form in Early Modern England. University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 268. […]

Review of Sujata Ivengar’s Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory

By Thomas G. Olsen

Shakespeare and Adaptation Theory (Bloomsbury 2023) is a new addition to the already substantial and well-established Arden Shakespeare and Theory […]

A Review of Darren Freebury-Jones’s Shakespeare’s Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd

By Michael P. Jensen

I told a friend that I was reading a book called Shakespeare’s Tutor (Manchester U. Press, 2022), and he asked, […]

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 […]