Author Description

This title was first published in 2003.The Shakespearean International Yearbook provides an annual survey of those issues and new developments that are important in contemporary Shakespeare Studies. Distinguished critics and scholars appraise or reappraise current thinking about such diverse matters as Shakespeare and religion, scepticism, ethnicity, performance, theatrical and textual practices and translations or adaptations. Essays on the plays and poems usually focus on 'where we are now', and what has changed, is changing, or ought to change. Other essays present overviews of significant recent work on subjects like subjectivity and the Self, Shakespeare and the Law, or sexualities in the Sonnets.