Located at the intersection of new historicism and the 'new formalism', historical formalism is one of the most rapidly growing and important movements in early

This book sheds new light on the dramatic devices Shakespeare developed for turning history into theatre in his history plays.

Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical d

The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an

This volume convenes eight noted scholars with varied positions at the interface of formal and historical literary criticism. The editors’ introduction—a fa