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Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' soliloquy is quoted more often than almost any other passage in Shakespeare. Part of the "Shakespeare Now!" series, this title takes this famous speech and looks at it's meaning to reveal the questions and problems it raises. It reads the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's speech in 'slow motion'.

Suggesting that textual mediators have a positive rather than negative role, this book argues that any reader of Shakespeare, scholar, student, or general reader, approaches Shakespeare through edited versions that have a relationship to what Shakespeare may actually have intended and written.

Sheds light on developments in science, ethics, law, and religion in contemporary culture. This book reveals peculiarity of early scientific thought in Shakespeare's time and shows how the questions he poses remain fundamental as the nature of "life" has become one of the most pressing political, ethical, and philosophical problems for society.

Offers an insight into Shakespeare's place in today's soceity, particularly in major institutions such as the military, prisons and schools.

An exploration of how the self is revealed or exposed in the experience of reading, viewing and writing about Shakespeare. It intends to inspire readers to think and write about their personal relationship with Shakespeare: about how the poems and plays - and writing about them - can reveal or transform our sense of ourselves.

A study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery. It sets Shakespeare's sea-poetry against modern literary seascapes, including the vast Pacific of "Moby-Dick", the rocky coast of Charles Olson's "Maximus Poems", and the lyrical waters of the postcolonial "Caribbean".

An account of the value of experience and emotion in reading Shakespeare's sonnets and of the importance of reading poetry aloud. It discusses how reading the poems aloud can offer one of the best ways of fully participating in properly engaged reading.

An exploration of how the self is revealed or exposed in the experience of reading, viewing and writing about Shakespeare. It intends to inspire readers to think and write about their personal relationship with Shakespeare: about how the poems and plays - and writing about them - can reveal or transform our sense of ourselves.

Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare's working method.

Part of the "Shakespeare Now!" series, this book presents an account of the absence of God and belief in Shakespeare's plays. Following Dante's three-part structure for the "Divine Comedy", the first part represents expressions of religious faith, the second sets out more sceptical positions, and the last presents articulations of godlessness.

Outlaws, irreverent humorists, political underdogs, authoritarians... these are the images of Australians as revealed through the lens of "King Lear" play. This title focuses on the wide-ranging issues of identity and history raised by "King Lear" by exploring Australians' engagements with the play.

Argues for Shakespeare's inclusion within a metaphysical tradition that opposes empiricism and Cartesian dualism. Through readings of 3 plays - "The Tempest", "King Lear" and "Twelfth Night" - this title proposes that Shakespeare's manner of depicting life on stage itself constitutes an 'answer' to metaphysical questions raised by later thinkers.