Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities, Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lago...

The Girl from Andros was the first play of the brilliant but short-lived Roman comic playwright Terence and shows him as already a master dramatist...

This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to...

I look at these fields and I try to imagine what they were: crop fields, maybe. Or fields of sheep. And these power lines. I try to imagine that th...

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeares words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the ...

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeares words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the ...

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeares words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the ...

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeares words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the ...

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeares words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the ...

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeares words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the ...

Its a simple idea, really. 1. Wear a uniform; 2. Protect who you love, what you care about; 3. Let nothing get in your way.Someone mugged Bruces mu...

The topic of Shakespeare and religion is a perennial one, and the recent turn to religion in historical and literary scholarship has pushed it to t...

In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeares dramatic fascination with the story of Abrahams near sacrifice of his son ...

This book shows that the sounds of the early modern stage do not only signify but are also significant. Sounds are weighted with meaning, offering ...

Neil Simon (19272018) began as a writer for some of the leading comedians of the dayincluding Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Phil Silvers, and Jerry ...

Pulcinella, a Neapolitan clown born of the commedia dellarte tradition, went viral in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He was an...

What do we gain from watching a familiar play for the nth time? This was a crucial question for Romantic-period theatre managers, who, to deliver v...

The third edition of Hamlet offers a completely new introduction to this rich, mysterious play, examining Shakespeare's transformation of an ancien...

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visual spectacle and settings al...

Eating Shakespeare provides a constructive critical analysis of the issue of Shakespeare and globalization and revisits understandings of intercult...

An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare's HamletHamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in...