From the Hamlet acted on a galleon off Africa to the countless outdoor productions of A
Midsummer Night's Dream that now defy each English summer, Shakespeare and Amateur …

This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in
1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in …

In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays
in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as …

Voices and accents are increasingly perceived as central markers of identity in
Shakespearean performance. This book presents a history of the reception of Shakespeare …

Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in
Stratford-upon-Avon—and there are some 700,000 a year who do so—might be forgiven for …

[Taking a comprehensive critical and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in
educational policy and pedagogy from 1989—the year compulsory Shakespeare was …

This is an entertaining account of Shakespeare's afterlives in fiction. Paul Franssen offers
the first sustained analysis of stories and films that involve the character of Shakespeare …

In the current government's 'Great Books' approach to the National Curriculum for English
lies an apparent desire for all school students to benefit from access to a shared 'cultural …

This book deals with Shakespeare's role in contemporary culture. It looks in detail at the way
that Shakespeare's plays inform modern ideas of cultural value and the work required to …

In the late nineteenth century hundreds of clubs formed across the United States devoted to
the reading of Shakespeare. From Pasadena, California, to the seaside town of Camden …