Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Engagements with Adaptation invites students both to consider adaptations on their own terms and to engage with the urgent questions they raise abo...

Vol.2: In contrast with the first volume, the second is devoted to new mythologies and social forces. The included plays explore three American arc...

In Wanton Words, Madhavi Menon intimately and expertly couples classical and Renaissance handbooks of rhetoric with canonical Renaissance plays and...

Canada’s first audition book, with monologues from plays of the seventies, also useful as a survey of Canadian playwriting.

Original in topic and approach, Searching Shakespeare presents a political-historical exploration of Shakespeare's drama, examining the plays in th...

Richard Wagner's knowledge of and passion for Greek drama was so profound that for Friedrich Nietzsche, Wagner was Aeschylus come alive again. Surp...

Richard Wagner's knowledge of and passion for Greek drama was so profound that for Friedrich Nietzsche, Wagner was Aeschylus come alive again. Surp...

A consciousness of the past has been an essential determinant of community in the city of Chester, England. This awareness and fascination has been...

Kleist was an important dramatist at the beginning of the nineteenth century and Kathchen was one of his greatest stage successes. Reeve presents ...

Although the Russian novelist and playwright Leonid Leonov had published extensively before 1917 he considered that his literary career began only ...

This is the new paperback edition of the first fully annotated volume of Ben Jonson's 'The Magnetic Lady' written in 1632. It contains textual and ...

Drama of the English Republic' is the first modern collection of plays and entertainments which were originally published and performed when Englan...

One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho...

What existed before there was a subject known as English? How did English eventually come about? Focusing specifically on Shakespeare's role in the...

This volume brings together three little-known plays that convey vividly the fascination in early seventeenth-century England with travel and explo...

This lavishly illustrated book offers the first full, interdisciplinary investigation of the historical evidence for the presence of ancient Greek ...

Angela Carter is best known for her novels, short fiction and journalism, but she also produced a substantial body of writing for media other than ...

Reeve provides a detailed discussion of Klesel's importance in Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg and examines possible predecessors for the Federfuchser:...

The new wave of cultural materialists in Britain and new historicists in the United States here join forces to depose the sacred icon of the "etern...

Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first play in the Oresteia trilogy, is one of the most influential theatrical texts in the global canon. In performance, ...