Whether the fault of tedious teachers or hammy actors, Shakespeare is often seen as dry and impenetrable. In this fast-paced introduction, Ros King sets out to remind us of the sheer beauty and sophis
This Handbook provides an introductory guide to "The Winter's Tale" offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, c
Among Shakespeare's most neglected plays, says King (English and drama, Queen U. of London), Cymbeline is not a courtly romance, a royalist apology, or a warning about Scots, as previous critics would
Whether the fault of tedious teachers or hammy actors, Shakespeare is often seen as dry and impenetrable. In this fastpaced introduction, Ros King sets out to remind us of the sheer beauty and sophist
A lively collection of essays from scholars from across Europe, North America and Australia. The book ranges from Shakespeare's use of manuals on war written for the sixteenth-century English public b