This book provides a sustained, formalist reading of the multiple body parts that litter the dialogue and action of Shakespeare's history plays.

Taking a new approach to the metaphor of the political body, this book examines Shakespeare's representation of that body as possessing epistemological facultie

One of the most provocative writers on women's performances of Shakespeare on stage and film in Britain today, Rutter speculates on how the theatre `plays' wome

This collection considers issues that have emerged in Early Modern Studies in the past fifteen years relating to understandings of mind and body in Shakespeare�

mate Shakespeare’s corpus, and one of the most prominent is the image of the body. Sketched out in the eternal lines of his plays and poetry, and often drawn