Shakespeare Dwelling

Great halls and hovels, dove-houses and sheepcotes, mountain cells and seaside shelters—these are some of the spaces in which Shakespearean characters gather to dwell, and to test their connections with one another and their worlds. Julia Reinhard Lupton enters Shakespeare’s dwelling places in search of insights into the most fundamental human problems.   Focusing on five works ( Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth , Pericles , Cymbeline , and The Winter’s Tale ), Lupton remakes the concept of dwelli