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    • Shakespeare and heritage 

      Holderness, G. (1992)
    • Shakespeare and terror 

      Holderness, G.; Loughrey, B. (Edwin Mellen Press Ltd, 2011)
      In Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson’s burlesque novel The Dynamiter, a terrorist plot is hatched to plant a bomb in Leicester Square. The objective of the terrorists is carnage and fatality: ‘the seats in the immediate ...
    • Shakespeare and the cultures of commemoration 

      Hoenselaars, Ton; Calvo, Clara; Holderness, G. (2010)
      This 'Introduction' argues a case for extending memory studies with the study of commemoration, or of 'historical remembrance' (Jay Winter). Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of Shakespeare, ...
    • Shakespeare and the Novel 

      Holderness, Graham (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016-08-11)
    • Shakespeare and the Undead 

      Holderness, Graham (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017-10-28)
      This chapter is based on the work of the Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture Research Project at the University of Hertfordshire. The project relates the undead in literature, art, and other ...
    • Shakespeare and Venice 

      Holderness, G. (Ashgate Publishing, 2010)
      Shakespeare and Venice is the first book length study to describe and chronicle the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages and has persisted in fiction and film to the present day. It focuses specifically ...
    • Shakespeare country 

      Holderness, G.; Murphy, A. (1995)
    • Shakespeare entre l'Orient et l'Occident 

      Holderness, G. (L'avant-scene Theatre, 2008-06-01)
    • The Shakespeare Myth 

      Holderness, G. (Manchester University Press, 1988)
    • Shakespeare Recycled: the Making of Historical Drama 

      Holderness, G. (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992)
      This book is an exercise in reading Shakespeare's history plays as history. It sets out to challenge Tillyard's view that the plays may be read as historical evidence for the providence-driven theory of history and as ...
    • Shakespeare remembered 

      Holderness, G. (2010)
      The continuous active presence within contemporary culture of a body of work such as Shakespeare's induces that form of amnesis encapsulated in Ben Jonson's phrase 'not for an age, but for all time': that the past may be ...
    • Shakespeare rescheduled 

      Holderness, G. (University of Luton Press/Arts Council of England, 1998)
      This set of essays delivers perspectives on the on-going debate on the arts in today’s society. Several methods of criticism are utilised and fundamental views are conveyed by practitioners from the theatre and television ...
    • Shakespeare rewound 

      Holderness, G. (1993)
    • Shakespeare's "King Richard II" 

      Holderness, G. (Penguin Books Ltd, 1989)
      This study explores the theme behind "Richard II" - the power struggle between monarchy and feudal nobility. The language and characters are thoroughly analyzed and lucidity explained to persuade the reader that many ...
    • Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" 

      Holderness, G. (Penguin Books Ltd, 1991)
      The author looks at some of the ways in which this play has been made accessible, as a romantic story of young love, as "West Side Story" or a colourful and spectacular historical pageant and suggests that they lead away ...
    • Shakespeare's England : Britain's Shakespeare 

      Holderness, G. (Manchester University Press, 1997)
      ‘It is not easy to discover from what cause the acrimony of a scholiast can naturally proceed. The subjects to be discussed by him are of very small importance; they involve neither property nor liberty; nor favour the ...
    • Shakespeare's History Plays: "Richard II" to "Henry V" 

      Holderness, G. (Palgrave Macmillan, 1992)
      This anthology of contemporary criticism was written within the last 20 years, most within the last ten. It aims to problematize, rather than merely reflect, traditional methods and assumptions. The selection of essays ...
    • Shakespeare's history: Richard II 

      Holderness, G. (1981)