This book explores the central role of fathers in the plays of Shakespeare and a wide range of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.

From the star-crossed romance of Romeo and Juliet to Othello's misguided murder of Desdemona to the betrayal of King Lear by his daughters, family life is centr

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean pla

The first full-length study of the ways in which Shakespearean drama influenced and expanded notions of inheritance in early modern England.