Jean E. Howard eBooks

The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare’s comedies. Contains >>

A ground-breaking study of the social and cultural functions of the early modern theatre. Jean Howard looks at the effects of drama and the stage on early modern culture in an exciting and eminently readable >>

"Marxist Shakespeares" uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. The essays collected here reveal the continuing power of Marxist thought to address >>

Engendering a Nation adopts a feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Plays featured include: King John, Richard III, and Henry >>