Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

The Family of Love charts a successful love intrigue between the cash-strapped Gerardine, and Maria, the sequestered niece of the mercenary Doctor ...

Designed to introduce the student or general reader to a largely unfamiliar area of Elizabethan theatrical activity, Five Elizabethan progress ente...

John Fletchers Rome is the first book to explore John Fletchers engagement with classical antiquity. Like Shakespeare and Jonson, Fletcher wrote, a...

Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt p...

The politics of Jean Genet's late theatre is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and politi...

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his co...

For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemp...

Boxers are like painters, both smear their blood on the canvas. New York, 1984. Fifty-six-year-old Andy Warhols star is falling. Jean-Michel Basqu...

The second of Shaw's unpleasant plays, written in 1893, published in 1898, but not performed until 1905, The Philanderer is subtitled A Topical Com...

The first collection of plays from the critically acclaimed Karen Zacarias, one of the ten most produced playwrights in the USA. Contains the pl...

During a conversation with Ward Morehouse in 1930, Eugene ONeill stated, Im interested in trying to do better things, and his plays are a testimony...

Bringing together some of the best work from the 2016 Comparative Drama Conference in Baltimore, this collection of essays presents the latest r...

This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of ...

Surveying the life, work and accolades of Irish playwright Brian Friel, this literary companion investigates his personal and professional relat...

Lacan builds all his theories on the central assumption that language is inherently bound up with the privilege of access to the discourse and has ...

Shakespeare Scholars Speak interviews twenty-four of todays most prominent Shakespeare scholars about the books that have influenced their ideas, b...

What's in a name? That which we call a RoseBy any other name would smell as sweet.' William ShakespeareThe great William Guilfoyle, credited as t...

Inaugurated in the 1860s and the standard reference edition of Shakespeares work, the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare continues the tradition ...

The Tempest, The Winter''s Tale, Measure for Measure, and All''s Well That Ends Well have fascinated scholars for centuries for, among other aspect...