Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of The History Boy...

This book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. This book explores the threat of Christian con...

Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae, the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Gre...

Napoleons biographers often note his fondness for theatre, but as we approach the bicentenary of the Emperors death, little remains known about the...

Winner of the 2018 PEN America Award in Drama As Tolstoy said, All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ...

From Mimesis to Interculturalism offers a series of critical readings of key texts in the history of European and American theatrical and performan...

A murdered King. A usurped Prince. A promise of revenge. Returning to court to find his father murdered and his mother married to the murderer, Ham...

Best known today for the novels Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones, Henry Fielding was just as renowned in his own time as a prolific and highly successf...

Mary Elizabeth Braddons shocking and suspenseful novel Lady Audleys Secret was one of the most popular examples of the sensation fiction craze of t...

The Routledge Companion to Actors Shakespeare is a window onto how todays actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeares pl...

Regarded by Bernard Shaw as a master of the theatre, Dion Boucicault was arguably the most important figure in drama in North America and in Britai...

In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripidess revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversi...

Winter Passages is Robert Brustein's nineteenth book of criticism. It includes his considerations of culture and politics over the past four years ...

A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduc...