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ACCENTS ON SHAKESPEARE

General Editor: TERENCE HAWKES

It is more than twenty years since the New Accents series helped to establish “theory” as a fundamental and continuing feature of the study of literature at the undergraduate level. Since then, the need for short, powerful “cutting edge” accounts of and comments on new developments has increased sharply. In the case of Shakespeare, books with this sort of focus have not been readily available. Accents on Shakespeare aims to supply them.

Accents on Shakespeare volumes will either “apply’’ theory, or broaden and adapt it in order to connect with concrete teaching concerns. In the process, they will also reflect and engage with the major developments in Shakespeare studies of the last ten years.

The series will lead as well as follow. In pursuit of this goal it will be a two-tiered series. In addition to affordable, “adoptable” titles aimed at modular undergraduate courses, it will include a number of research-based books. Spirited and committed, these second-tier volumes advocate radical change rather than stolidly reinforcing the status quo.

IN THE SAME SERIES

Shakespeare and Appropriation

Edited by Christy Desmet and Robert Sawyer

Shakespeare Without Women

Dympna Callaghan

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