This book celebrates the theatrical excitement and philosophical meanings of human interaction in Shakespeare.

This collection of essays considers what constituted contagion in the minds of early moderns in the absence of modern germ theory. In a wide range of essays foc

The times when abstaining from cakes and ale was seen as a sign of critical virtue are over. Phenomenal Shakespeare is at your back lawn with a picnic-basket ja

This collection assembles essays on key words that link performance and philosophy in the works of Shakespeare.