Comprehensive study of the concept of love in Shakespeare's work, exploring historical contexts, theory and philosophy of love.

David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays.

This book explores the ways in which members the Bakhtin School (Michail Bakhtin, Valentin Voloshinov, and Pavel Medvedev) conceive of the relationship between language and literary fiction and the “world beyond language”.

It uses the Wittgensteinian notions of "samples" and "criteria" to show that language is involved in the appropriation of aspects of the world through the historically contingent activities of linguistic practice, and it uses Wittgenstein's ...

The book looks at the ways in which oppressive spaces or circumstances restrict the ways in which personal identity can be formed or formulated in relation to others.

This handbook brings together 54 essays by scholars from all parts of the world.

In addition to this extensive exploration of Weimann's work, the volume includes essays on The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare and Lucretius, and Shakespeare on BBC television.

Peter Laslett's comment, in The World We Have Lost, that in the early modern period 'every relationship could be seen as a love-relationship' presents the governing idea of this book.

"Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this second volume by the editors focuses on the broad movements of national revivalism that took place around the turn of the century as ...