Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peeles explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted h...

This book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early...

Unashamedly a book for the bookish, yet accessible and frequently entertaining, this is the first book devoted to how libraries are depicted in ima...

To 'conceive' desire is to acknowledge the generative potential of the erotic imagination, its capacity to impart form and make meaning out of the ...

In this revisionist study, Peter G. Platt provides a detailed history of the literary-critical interest in the Montaigne Shakespeare connection fro...

Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage reveals an underexplored archive of Italian, English and German fencing texts, which were des...

Loves Victory by Lady Mary Wroth (15871651) is the first romantic comedy written in English by a woman. The Revels Plays publishes for the first ti...

Gwyn Thomas was born, the last of twelve children, into a Rhondda mining family in 1913. After a childhood marked by the strikes of the 1920s, he w...