Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Southerne is one of the most important dramatists of the Restoration theatre, but until now there has been no modern edition of his works. The text...

Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering or death? Is it because we s...

Modernizing Shakespeare's Spelling With Three Studies of the Text of `Henry V'

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book ...

Reading Dreams contains seven new essays, based on new research, on the representation and interpretation of medieval and Renaissance dreams. The t...

Gary Taylor and John Jowett explore the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were reshaped in his lifetime and up till the publication of the First Fo...

A comprehensive reassessment of Middleton's cultural importance, this wide-ranging study examines both the writer's dramatic and non-dramatic texts...

This new translation (the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years) makes freshly avail...

The Wasps is one of the most entertaining and characteristic comedies of Aristophanes, and the absence of fundamental difficulties in the text make...

Aristophanes' Peace was performed at the City Dionysia in Athens in 421 BC as a decade-long war with Sparta seemed finally to be drawing to an end,...

Troilus and Cressida is perhaps Shakespeare's most philosophical play, and its preoccupation with war, sex, and time has seemed peculiarly relevant...

This original and innovative study is the first systematic exploration of Racine's theatricality. It is based on a close examination of all Racine'...

A scholarly edition of works by Ben Jonson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and schola...

This book charts the influence of Seneca - both as specific text and inherited tradition - through an analysis of Shakespeare's tragedies. Discerni...

This book offers a challenging multi-disciplinary interpretation of Aristophanes' Frogs. Drawing on a wide range of literary and anthropological ap...

As Henry's throne is threatened by rebel forces, England is divided. The characters reflect these oppositions, with Hal and Hotspur vying for posit...

This book surveys Shakespeare's comedies, charting the influence upon them of the ancient playwrights, Plautus and Terence. Robert Miola analyses t...

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Figures of Play explores the reflexive aspects of ancient theatrical culture across genres. Fifth century tragedy and comedy sublimated the agonist...

Originally published in 1976, this highly acclaimed, full-scale account of Restoration drama is now available for the first time in a paperback edi...

Euripides' Hippolytos tells of an honourable youth's tragic death, contrived by his father in the false belief that his son had seduced his new wif...

In addition to its many topical references to social life, religion, and politics in classical Athens, the Lysistrata is one of our best sources fo...

This book examines Sophocles' handling of the chorus in his seven extant tragedies. This aspect of his art was chosen two reasons, first because in...

In this uniquely personal account of Samuel Beckett's theatre, Katharine Worth draws on a wealth of remarkable material - her own work producing an...