Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography

Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays

David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive. Schalkwyk ...

Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets

This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare's sonnets. An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare's sonnets. ...

Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management

The issues fueling the intricate plots of Shakespeare's four-hundred-year-old plays are the same common, yet complex issues that business leaders contend with today. And, as John Whitney and Tina ...

CliffsNotes: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer summaries and expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this ...

Cliffs Notes: Shakespeare's Henry V

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also ...

Cliffs Notes: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

The dilemma between heart, head, romance, and ambition has not been told with such elegance and depth as in Shakespeare's play. With revelries of poetic love and the drudgery of tragedy, this drama ...

An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems

This title provides a lively and informed examination of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry: the narrative poems ''Venus and Adonis'' and ''The Rape of Lucrece''; the ''Sonnets''; and various minor ...

Cliffs Notes: Shakespeare's The Tempest

This concise supplement to Shakespeare's The Tempest helps students understand the overall structure of the play, actions and motivations of the characters, and the social and cultural perspectives ...

Cliffs Notes: Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost and The Two Gentlemen…