Simon Palfrey offers a new way of understanding Shakespeare's playworlds, with piercingly origina...

A thoroughly revised edition of the successful student text Doing Shakespeare, first published in...

'A miracle, an instant classic.' Slavoj Zizek, philosopherThe tragedy is done, the tyrant Macbeth...

Palfrey presents a new vision of character, metaphor, and politics in late Shakespeare. Closely a...

[This book] reveals the unique ways inwhich Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life...

Simon Palfrey shows us the passion and the cruelty which lie beneath the surface of Shakespeare’s...

Schools and universities are fast becoming managerial 'courts' of learning in which educators and...

Shakespeare's drama originally circulated in the form of the individual actor's part, containing ...

New methods are needed to do justice to Shakespeare. His work exceeds conventional models, past a...

Paul Cefalu argues that Shakespearean characters raise timely questions about the relationship be...