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1. Shakespeare's Comedy of Love

   By Alexander Leggatt

   First published in 1987. This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each play is a new combination of essentially...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Shakespeare's Comedy of Love

   By Alexander Leggatt

   First published in 1987. This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each play is a new combination of essentially...

   Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge
3. William Shakespeare's Macbeth

   A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

   Edited by Alexander Leggatt

   Series: Routledge Guides to Literature

   William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a timeless tale of love, greed and power, which has given rise to heated debates around such issues as the representation of gender roles, political violence and the dramatisation of evil. Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare’s play presents:...

   Published December 12th 2005 by Routledge
4. English Stage Comedy 1490-1990

   Edited by Alexander Leggatt

   Published August 19th 1998 by Routledge
5. Jacobean Public Theatre

   By Alexander Leggatt

   Series: Theatre Production Studies

   Jacobean Public Theatre recovers for the modern reader the acting, production and performance values of the public theatre of Jacobean London. It relates this drama to the popular culutre of the day and concludes with a close study of four important plays, including King Lear, which emerge in an...

   Published October 21st 1992 by Routledge
6. Shakespeare's Political Drama

   The History Plays and the Roman Plays

   By Alexander Leggatt

   Shakespeare is consistently interested in rulers, law, questions of authority and obedience. In this study, Alexander Leggatt examines the depiction of state and public power in the English and Roman histories....

   Published November 8th 1989 by Routledge