An illustrated collection of new essays with valuable reference material on the performance and reception of Shakespeare's plays.

The first full-length study of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian women writers, actresses and readers.

In the Victorian era, William Shakespeare's work was often celebrated as a sacred text: a sort of secular English Bible. Even today, Shakespeare remains a uniqu

The author of the book analyses selected 19th-century operas based on Shakespeare's plays from the perspective of their relations to the literature, aesthetics

'Shakespeare in Art' looks at the huge variety of painters who made Shakespeare's extremes of passion, his evocations of nature, his spirit world and his eterna