Shakespeare imprint: 191 books

ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights into the text by presenting a range of critical...

Los tiempos de la «ley de la selva materialista» están caducos y por consiguiente la demanda por nuevos conceptos económicos, sociales, laborales o culturales crece día a día. Se vuelve a hablar de colaboración y motivación como valores esenciales del ser humano en sus relaciones cotidianas....

Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of...

All four figures in this volume have been canonized as central to 'stage-centred' Shakespearean scholarship and stage practice. From William Poel's reproductions of early modern stages in the late nineteenth century to Sam Wanamaker's reconstruction of the Globe on London's South Bank, they all viewed...

Othello has a long history of provoking profound emotion in its audiences and readers. This 'freeze frame' volume showcases current debates and ideas about the play's provocative effects. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers,...

Tradicionalmente a los negocios se les considera como un campo de batalla, donde todas las medidas serían válidas. Sin embargo, el resultado de esta conflagración no deja a nadie conforme ni con sus ganancias ni con su proceder. En el presente libro, el académico y empresario Jaime Soto plantea...

El viaje de la trilogía de Jaime Soto termina con El juego de las organizaciones, trabajo literario, técnico y teórico que comenzó con El juego de la vida (2011) y se desarrolló con El juego de los negocios (2013). Soto se esmera en ilustrar a sus lectores con la filosofía que lo impulsa en...

La Economía, en tiempos de crisis, puede dar respuestas más allá de los negocios y los indicadores macro o micro económicos. En El Juego de la Vida, su autor, el empresario y profesor universitario Jaime Soto, incursiona en la Moral y la Filosofía para "redescubrir" una verdad incuestionable:...

The White Devil is one of the most violent and most fascinating plays in English theatrical history. It is also a notoriously challenging work; this volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to the play, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It also provides a...

The Dutch Courtesan is a riotous tragicomedy that explores the delights and perils afforded by Jacobean London. While Freevill, an educated young Englishman and the play's nominal hero, frolics in the city's streets, taverns and brothels, Franceschina, his cast-off mistress and the Dutch courtesan...

In this volume on Othello, Laurie Maguire examines the use and misuse of language, the play's textual and performance histories and how critics and directors have responded to the language of sexual jealousy.

Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jacobean tragedy. Part tragedy, part satire of a corrupt political world, the play explores the relations of the powerful to the disempowered; the opportunities...

On 19 April 1621, a woman named Elizabeth Sawyer was hanged at Tyburn. Her story was on the bookstalls within days and within weeks was adapted for the stage as The Witch of Edmonton. The devil stalks Edmonton in the shape of a large black dog and, just as Elizabeth Sawyer makes her demonic pact,...

Edward II: A Critical Reader gives students, teachers and scholars alike an overview of the play's reception both in the theatre and among artists and critics, from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 21st. The volume also offers a series of new perspectives on the play by leading...