Employing a traditional understanding of sources as well as more recent developments in intertextuality, this book traces Shakespeare's reading throughout his career, as it inspires his poetry, histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances.

This book studies Shakespeare's changing vision of Rome in the six works where the city serves as a setting.

Amongst the selections are texts which illuminate the role of women in recusant community and in the Church; the rich traditions of prayer and mysticism; the theology and politics of martyrdom; the emergence of the Catholic Baroque ...

This book charts the influence of Seneca--both as specific text and inherited tradition--through Shakespeare's tragedies.

This book surveys Shakespeare's comedies, charting the influence upon them of the ancient playwrights, Plautus and Terence.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors.

" --"The Comedy of Errors" Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this raucous story of mistaken identity and family--along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, ...

Far more than just a copy of the play, this text includes commentary, informative notes, and production notes for Much ado about nothing.

The book analyzes these sources and places the comedies in their Renaissance context, as well as in the larger context of European theatre.