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Category: Book Reviews

Review of Sara Munson Deats’ The Faust Legend: From Marlowe and Goethe to Contemporary Drama and Film

This is an old-fashioned monograph – agreeably so. It offers, basically, a chronological study of the Faust myth as it […]

Review of “Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems: A Very Short Introduction,” by Jonathan F.S. Post

Expansive for a volume with so little page space, Jonathan F.S. Post’s Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems: Very Short Introduction is […]

Review of David McInnis’s Edition of Old Fortunatus

Most modern students of early modern plays have their own responses to the questions “can this cockpit hold/ The vasty […]

Letting Hamnet Net Hamlet

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 […]

A Review of David George’s Variorum Edition of Coriolanus

David George’s magisterial variorum edition of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus in two volumes has now appeared after thirty or more years of […]

Shakespeare on Screen, A Review

Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear, edited by Victoria Bladen, Sarah Hatchuel, Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin This collection of essays on King Lear […]

Review of Shakespeare’s Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval

Shakespeare’s Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval, by Lindsay Ann Reid. Studies in Renaissance Literature, vol. 36. Cambridge, U.K.: […]

On O’Farrell’s Hamnet

Chances are, anyone who has been to high school has met the interesting women Shakespeare created: Juliet, her Nurse, Ophelia, […]

Two Reviews: Shakespeare & the ‘Live’ Theatre Broadcast Experience and Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History 

After triumphant seasons in Stratford and London, Peter Brook’s legendary 1970 Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream […]

Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays

Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s English History Plays. Edited by Laurie Ellinghausen. MLA, 2017. $40 (cloth), $24 (paper). When I saw […]

Review of Indira Ghose’s Much Ado About Nothing: Language & Writing.

Much Ado About Nothing: Language & Writing.  Indira Ghose.  Bloomsbury: London and New York, 2018, xii+180 pages. $ 19.75 This […]

Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740

Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640-1740 Edited by Emma Depledge and Peter Kirwan Cambridge U. Press, 2017. $105. […]