Using the tools of premodern critical race studies and whiteness studies, this article brings to critical visibility the Black women Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice evokes in passing, only to leav...

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare, Biography, and Bioadaptation offers an authoritative survey on Shakespeare and biographical writing. Featuring chapters by an international team of contributors...

A 2017 Photograph of the front of the elegant Garrick from its Wikipedia entry, reproduced under a Creative Commons-Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license (see The Arthur Lloyd Theatre H…

This article presents new archival discoveries concerning the siblings of early modern playwright John Fletcher following the sudden death of their father, Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, in 1596...

Volume 22, Issue 3 of Shakespeare

Adaptation is the leading international, peer-reviewed journal of adaptation studies. The journal actively contributes to the development and visibility of adap

Explore books in the Anthem Studies in Critical Literary Geography series from Anthem Press.

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

Volume 22, Issue 2 of Shakespeare

Volume 22, Issue 1 of Shakespeare

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena says of Hermia: ‘Though she be but little, she is fierce’ (3.2.325). This quote, taken out of the play’s context of sexual rivalry, has found immense popularity...

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the use of the love-in-idleness enchantment is not confined to producing Titania’s comic union with Bottom but is also applied to Lysander and is the source of Demetri...

Shakespeare and Wilkins’ Pericles and Middleton’s Hengist share a unique feature: a mediaeval author as choric figure. Choric figures are typically embodied plot devices rather than dramatic charac...

Constructing Identities, Postgraduate Colloquium 2026 Organisation: University of Sheffield. Deadline for Submission: Monday 30th March 2026.  Conference Date: Monday 15th June 2026. Conference Ven…

BSA Conference AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference A virtual BSA conference 26th and 27th February 2026 In the interests of economy and inclusivity, the BSA will b...

1. Introduction While Orwell has a strong association with the ‘down and out’, Walter Greenwood does not. However, Greenwood published ‘Down and Out’ as one section among th…

Instinct, Knowledge and Occult Science on the Early Modern English Stage

From the early moments in Hamlet when he offers a ‘piece’ (1.1.18) of himself to his readiness to consider a range of folkloric narratives, Horatio’s approach to the supernatural is one marked by f...

AI and Shakespeare: A British Shakespeare Association Virtual Conference In the interests of economy and inclusivity, the BSA will be meeting in 2026 virtually over two half days (26 – 27 February, 1....