Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Alongside the usual wide-ranging lineup of research articles, volume 41 features an interview with Berliner Ensemble actor Annemone Haase and an ex...

The locations of Shakespeares plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He ...

Highlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare''s responses to sixteenth-century debates o...

Explores intrinsic connections between early modern intelligencers and metadrama in the plays of Shakespeare's contemporariesIntelligence and Metad...

Considers the ways ghost stories appeal to our uneasy relationship with conventional good senseWhat do they want, the ghosts that, even in the age ...

Argues that Gertrude Stein's gender can best be described as 'transmasculine'This thoughtful and sophisticated book views Gertrude Stein's life and...

Explores the interaction between science, literature and spectacle in Shakespeare's eraTo the readers who ask themselves: 'What is science?', this ...

This book is for teachers who want to heighten the intellectual impact of their courses by using their classrooms as a creative space for social fo...

Did you know that Ovid was a multifaceted icon of lovesickness, endless change, libertinism, emotional torment, and violence in early modern Englan...

Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in ...

A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacyWhat do we know today about the theatrical ferment caused by the scandalous group o...

Collects Stan Gontarski's finest essays on the work of Samuel Beckett over a forty-year periodRepresenting a profound engagement with the work of S...

Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St ...

Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and techn...

Essays on aspects of early drama. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of inte...

This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres. I...

Unfixable Forms explores how theatrical form remakesand is in turn remade byearly modern disability. Figures described as deformed, lame, crippled,...

Revised and updated critical survey of the field of cosmetics and adornment studiesThis revised edition examines how the plays of Shakespeare and h...

Free Will: Art and power on Shakespeares stage is a study of theatre and sovereignty that situates Shakespeares plays in the contraflow between two...