What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such
questions—bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life—animate …

The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of
Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts …

Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers
both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more …

Shakespeare and Wales offers a'Welsh correction'to a long-standing deficiency. It brings
together experts in the field from both sides of the Atlantic to establish a detailed historical …

For Shakespeare and his fellow Elizabethans, comedy was a matter of timing. Sixteenth-
century accounts of its past history and current practice are anxiously evasive, fenced in with …

Sovereigns and Subjects in Early Modern Neo-Senecan Drama examines the development
of neo-Senecan drama, also known as' closet drama', during the years 1590-1613. It is the …

Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or both? Addressing from various angles the relation
of the figure of the national poet/dramatist to constructions of England and Englishness this …

Cultural, literary, and popular representations of collective peculiarities and behaviour
frequently invoke 'national character'as a motivating explanation. Stereotypical in nature …

Drawing together some of the leading academics in the field of Shakespeare studies, this
volume examines the commonalities and differences in addressing a notionally'Celtic' …

Introduction contribution that all of his plays–including his romances or late plays–in their
own way made to the production of national identities, the definition of national space, the …