The Norton Shakespeare: Essential Plays / The Sonnets offers the twenty most-assigned plays and all the sonnets in a compact, portable, and value-priced paperback with a host of features. Organised by genre, this volume includes the genre introductions enthusiastically received in The Norton Shakesp[...]

Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the proc[...]

The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times. This title offers an account of Shakespeare's character and the blossoming of his talent.[...]

Var Shakespeare antisemit? Eller är hans judiska Shylock snarare ett tecken på det diskursiva klimatet som rådde i England under 1500-talet? Rymmer Köpmannen i Venedig antisemitisk propaganda och är den därför rentav farlig, oavsett tidsandan och den sceniska framställningen? Til syvende og [...]

Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabe[...]

Instructors and students worldwide welcomed the fresh scholarship, lively and accessible introductions, helpful marginal glosses and notes, readable single-column format, all designed in support of the goal of the Oxford text: to bring the modern reader closer than before possible to Shakespeare's p[...]