Shakespeare Up Close Reading Early Modern Texts

This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern authors. As such the book will be an intervention into current critical methodology as well as an invaluable tool for all students of the literature of the period, exemplifying the possibilities of close reading in the hands of a range of gifted practitioners. This will be a unique collection as no other book offers such a rich variety of self-contained, short-form close readings. As such it can be used in the undergraduate classroom as well as by scholars and post graduates.

Russ McDonald is Professor of English Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Nicholas D Nace is Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Travis D Williams is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Rhode Island.