Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering Shakespeare alongside topics such as religion, politics, gender, race, ecology, popular culture, and history, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Rival Poet: The Narrative of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
1st Edition
By Mark Bradbeer
August 20, 2026
Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Rival Poet explores Shakespeare’s sonnet series and A Lover’s Complaint, both published in 1609. These poems are viewed in their historical context: in particular, in the context of Shakespeare’s patron. Through this prism, the patron’s relationship with “both” his ...
Imperial Concerns in Early Modern Drama: Anti-Imperialism and Race
1st Edition
By Philip Goldfarb Styrt
August 17, 2026
Imperial Concerns in Early Modern Drama: Anti-Imperialism and Race offers a compelling reassessment of how major Renaissance playwrights, including William Shakespeare, engaged with early discourses of empire. Challenging narratives that align early modern drama with emergent imperial ambitions, ...
Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy: The Bible, the School of Salamanca and Kingship
1st Edition
By Luis Javier Conejero-Magro
July 22, 2026
Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy explores the profound and multifaceted relationship between William Shakespeare’s historical dramas and biblical intertextuality. This study moves beyond reductive compilations of biblical references or sectarian interpretations, delving instead into the aesthetic and...
Histrionic Hamlet: Shakespeare's Ultimate Metatheatrical Experiment
1st Edition
By Piotr Sadowski
May 22, 2026
According to psychological research on acting, the histrionic personality consists of a compulsive tendency to play-act, exaggerate emotions, succumb to illusions, to seek attention through speech, body language, and costume, to be seductive and impulsive. An original intervention in the critical ...
Shakespeare’s Mirrors
1st Edition
By Edward Evans
May 22, 2026
Clear mirrors and The Geneva Bible, revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeare’s drive towards a new purpose for drama. Shakespeare reversed the conventional mirror metaphor for drama, implying drama cannot reflect the substance of human nature, and developed a method of...
Shakespeare, Dramatic Poetry and Value
1st Edition
By MacDonald P. Jackson
May 21, 2026
This book redirects attention to a truth largely ignored by recent criticism—that Shakespeare’s excellence as a playwright is inextricable from his excellence as a poet. It explores the diverse means by which Shakespeare’s poetry enriches his drama, illustrating how particular words in a particular...
Genre in Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies: The Dramatic Canon of William Shakespeare
1st Edition
By Joseph Rudman
April 20, 2026
This timely monograph explores the critical, yet often overlooked, role of genre in non-traditional authorship attribution studies. Drawing from linguistics, rhetoric, stylistics, forensic linguistics, and computational methods –including large language models (LLMs) – this book argues that genre ...
Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare: Queer Legacies and Queer World-Making
1st Edition
By Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau
February 24, 2026
Moving beyond a cisgender, heteronormative framework, this book investigates Shakespeare’s queer legacy on Emily Dickinson’s work, particularly how this legacy has inflected Dickinson’s queer world-making and her conception not only of gender and sexuality, but also of the lyric itself. Drawing on ...
Shakespeare in Pakistan: Appropriating the Bard in Theatres, Cinema and Academia
1st Edition
By Zakia Resshid Ehsen
December 02, 2025
Shakespeare in Pakistan offers a comprehensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan, with a focus on how these works engage with creative, indigenous, cultural, culinary, and religious expressions of identity. The book traces the historical progression of ...
Local/Global Shakespeare and Advertising
1st Edition
Edited
By Márta Minier, Maria Elisa Montironi, Cristina Paravano
November 27, 2025
Local/ Global Shakespeare and Advertising examines the local/ global and rhizomatic phenomenon of Shakespeare as advertised and Shakespeare as advertising. Starting from the importance and the awareness of advertising practices in the early modern period, the volume follows the evolution of the use...
Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women
1st Edition
By Gül Kurtuluş
November 27, 2025
Shakespeare’s Unmuted Women explores women’s speeches in selected plays by Shakespeare, highlighting women’s discerning insight as a vital ingredient in these selected works. The book discusses the use of rhetoric in speeches by women as a cementing material that supports the casing of the ...
Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare: Scenes of Thanking in Shakespeare’s Plays
1st Edition
By Chahra Beloufa
October 26, 2025
Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics of thanking as a significant speech act in Shakespearean plays. The word “thanks” appears nearly 400 times in 37 Shakespearean plays, calling for a careful investigation of its veracity ...