By
Laura Kolb
Holly Crocker’s The Matter of Virtue (U. of Penn. Press, 2019) argues that premodern authors figured women’s virtue as a […]
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Michael P. Jensen
This 2020 Cambridge University Press book is so dense, closely argued, heavily theorized and documented that it would take several […]
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William N. West
Most modern students of early modern plays have their own responses to the questions “can this cockpit hold/ The vasty […]
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Scott L. Newstok
Awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, a finalist for the Irish Novel of the Year, and included […]
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Jay L. Halio
David George’s magisterial variorum edition of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus in two volumes has now appeared after thirty or more years of […]
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Thomas G. Olsen
Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear, edited by Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin This collection of essays on King Lear […]
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M.L. Stapleton
Shakespeare’s Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval, by Lindsay Ann Reid. Studies in Renaissance Literature, vol. 36. Cambridge, U.K.: […]
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Patti Hoppin
Chances are, anyone who has been to high school has met the interesting women Shakespeare created: Juliet, her Nurse, Ophelia, […]
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Michael P. Jensen
After triumphant seasons in Stratford and London, Peter Brook’s legendary 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream […]
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Kenneth Tucker
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays. Edited by Laurie Ellinghausen. MLA, 2017. $40 (cloth), $24 (paper). When I saw […]
