This is the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced. A close examination of rar

Twelve of the Bard's most famous plays, delightfully adapted for young readers: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, As You Like It, and eight others.

For more than four centuries, cultural preferences, literary values, critical contexts, and personal tastes have governed readers’ responses to Shakespeare’

This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern auth

This study grows out of the intersection of two realms of scholarly investigation - the emerging public sphere in early modern England and the history of the bo