This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare's tragedies, tracing its unbroken development from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and Shakespeare's first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, right ...

This is the first collection of criticism on Shakespeare's romances to register the impact of modern literary theory on interpretations of these plays.

The volume has been shortlisted for the European Society for the Study of English 2016 Prize for the best critical study in the field of Literatures in the English Language.

First published to critical acclaim in 1989, this book is now recognised as one of the most original and influential critical studies of Shakespeare to have appeared in recent times.

In this groundbreaking book one of the most original and compelling voices in contemporary Shakespeare criticism undertakes a detailed study of the ten extraordinary comedies Shakespeare wrote during his first decade as a dramatist: The ...

This text mounts a challenge to orthodox and oppositional critics who continue to regard Shakespearian drama as conservative in intent or effect.

This latest hardback volume in the Shakespeare Survey yearbook presents new material on King Lear.