Shakespeare's tragedies reinterpreted through the figures and motifs of medieval romance.

In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died and King James I inherited the English throne. During James's reign, England continued to hark back to Elizabeth, comparing him

This book examines Shakespeare's response in his late plays to the challenge of making romance stories believable through theatrical representation and the kind

This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about what should be counted as sources in Shakespeare studies. The

Shakespeare's idiom is an aggregate of archaic modes of speech and codes of conduct. This book attempts to make that idiom more accessible and, in the process,