Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Contemporary theatre is one of the best ways for ethno-cultural minorities to express themselves, whether they be of indigenous origin or immigrant...

A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the worlds most successful and popular female playwright, including details of ...

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...

The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, past...

This Student Edition of After the Fall is perfect for students of literature and drama and offers an unrivalled and comprehensive guide to Miller's...

Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation with English-French cultu...

In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women in early modern Spain, Marg...

Over four decades, Stephen Poliakoff has proved himself to be a distinctive dramatist in the mediums of theatre, film and television. Moving from p...

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 work by...

A Contemporary Shavian Manifesto presents an appraisal of George Bernard Shaws position on women in his plays. The dramatists unconventional approa...

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...

Ways of the World explores cosmopolitanism as it emerged during the Restoration and the role theater played in both memorializing and satirizing it...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple, declares Algernon early in Act One of The Importance of Being Earnest, and were it either, modern litera...

A daring and unapologetic examination of religion, pop culture and Black representation. Who would you rather pray to? Beyonce or white Jesus? ...

Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2017, Tom Stoppard's witty and exhilarating play is repackaged as a stylish Faber Modern Classic.Tom Stoppard's...

This adaptation of Virginia Woolf's novel asks the audience to reflect on how we become who we are, and on how we judge others. _x000D_ On a sin...