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The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works

'James Wood is a close reader of genius...

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A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.

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Doren deftly guides the reader though the sometime labyrinthine intricacies of Shakespeare's rich and strange language, the better to reveal the mysteries at the heart of his achievement.

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Brings to life Shakespeare's England and the original production of his plays.

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Shows that Shakespeare was a man of the theatre, one among a community of artists in the teeming world of Renaissance London. This book also sketches a gallery of Shakespeare's fellow playwrights.

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Offers a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare for children and young people from the National Theatre, Globe Education and Shakespeare 4 Kidz to film and manga adaptations. This book explores the range of productions, versions, and adaptations of Shakespeare.

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What's so funny about Shakespeare's comedies

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The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is difficult to us, and must have been hard even for contemporaries. How and why did Shakespeare's language develop as it did

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The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was uncertain. This title uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects from the period to re-create an age at once distant and yet surprisingly familiar.

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A quirky collection of true stories from the weird and wonderful world of Shakespearean theatre, featuringdistinguished actors falling off stages, fluffed lines, performances in the dark, and why you must never, ever say the name of that Scottish play, especially if you are Peter O'Toole.

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A resource for students, scholars and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood or unknown to a modern audience. Plot summaries for all Shakespeare's plays are included as well as notes on specific areas of his language.

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Bringing Shakespeare back to life

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Written by an academic and literary scholar with decades of experience in teaching Shakespeare to students at all levels, Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place.

This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of a range of classic titles in Shakespeare studies from our prestigious imprints Continuum, Sheffield Academic Press and The Athlone Press.

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Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeares genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.

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Peter Conrad explores the phenomenon of Shakespeare, and assesses Shakespeare's global legacy across every continent and across every genre of the creative arts.

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A.C.Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy, first published in 1904, ranks as one of the greatest works of Shakespearean criticism of all time. In his ten lectures A.C.Bradley has provided a study of the four great tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth - which reveals a deep understanding of Shakepearean thought and art.

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The true story of how the First Folio creators made Shakespeare

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A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years.

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This is a collection of the major works of literary criticism from the Renaissance, beginning with Sidney's defence of poesy and moving into the critical responses to Sidney's argument, and a selection of texts illustrating the wider debates about poetry and its place in politics and society.