Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

This study provides the first comprehensive examination of every prop in Shakespeare's plays, whether mentioned in stage directions, indicated in d...

A stunning backstage photographic study of Mark Rylance and the cast of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeares influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christi...

Shakespeare and the Bible are titans of English-speaking culture: their images are endlessly cited and recycled, and their language permeates every...

This is a new interpretation of Shakespeare's plays as a unified statement of early modern political theory. What were Shakespeare's politics? As t...

This is a passionately argued account of the value of experience and emotion in reading Shakespeare's sonnets and of the importance of reading poet...

Shakespeare Studies is an annual volume containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from around the world. This issue features...

Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by Charles Nicholl William Shakespeare and his contemporaries helped create not only a new kind of theatre but a...

This bilingual edition presents Luis Vélez de Guevaras 1613 play La Serrana de la Vera (The Mountain Girl from La Vera) for the first time ever in ...

The Myth of Identity in Modern Drama is the first book-length study on existential authenticity and its relation to ontological embodiment treated ...

Beckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monog...

The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experimen...

Stages of Loss supplies an original and deeply researched account of travel and festivity in early modern Europe, complicating, revising, and somet...

What makes a home for you? _x000D_ Victor Esses is Jewish-Lebanese, Brazilian, and gay. In 1975, Victors mother flees Lebanon as a refugee of th...