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The future of knowledge production is open access

ACMRS Press publishes the most expansive and daring scholarship in premodern studies. Our books engage the past to better understand our present and imagine different, more inclusive, futures.

We aim to break down the traditional barriers to scholarly knowledge and publishing by making our catalog available open access and by supporting our authors through a transparent publishing process.

All new Shakespeare pedagogy

Design and Discomfort confronts the complexities of teaching Shakespeare in today’s classrooms, where discussions of race, bias, and historical legacies can provoke discomfort—but also transformation. Edited by Laura B. Turchi, this collection brings together educators and teaching artists who share innovative strategies for rethinking Shakespeare’s role in education.

A scandalous and subversive satire

In the first full English translation of The Island of Hermaphrodites, Kathleen Perry Long introduces us to a scathingly hilarious takedown of the 16th-century French elite. Republished throughout the eighteenth century and connected to the intellectual ferment leading up to the French Revolution, The Island of Hermaphrodites remains a strikingly modern indictment of unchecked power and economic exploitation.

An exploration of displacement and exile.

This compelling collection of fourteen essays explores the enduring theme of exile in Shakespeare’s works and their global afterlives, offering a timely and thought-provoking response to the modern age of displacement.

Study the sensual world of Shakespeare’s plays.

Could something as seemingly natural as a smell, taste, sight, or sound be socially constructed and change over time?