Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

The story of Americas earliest extant play begins with a petty crimea crime that would have passed largely unnoticed had it not been for one fact: ...

Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, David Mamet, Charles Fuller, and Marsha Norman were born within ten years of one another. While they are not linked...

This book presents a comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue: commands and requests, command softeners and strengthene...

One of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the...

A scandal half-stifled is worse than a scandal. One is at everybody's mercy. Backstage at a hung parliament, visionary Independent Henry Trebell i...

The Georg Büchner Prize is the highest literary honor for German language writers, and the full extent of Büchners influencefrom Gerhart Hauptmann ...

The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first wor...

Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key...

Based on the true story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife, her lover and accomplices in 1551, Arden of Faversham is one of the earliest dom...

In Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and ...

Usesadaptation and appropriation studies to explore early modern textual and theatrical metamorphoses of OvidApplies contemporary theoretical appro...

Tennessee Williams' characters set the stage for their own dramas. Blanche DuBois (A Streetcar Named Desire), arrived at her sister's apartment ...

This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays. Considering how Shakespeare an...