Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Soliman and Perseda, written c. 1588 and first published in 1592 or 1593, is a late Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd, author of The Spani...

Precarious spectatorship is about the relationship between emergencies and the spectator. In the early twenty-first century, emergencies are common...

Winner of the 2020 Alfred Fagon Award. As the 19th Century dawns in London, politicians of all parties gather to abolish the slave trade once a...

This is an edition of Christopher Marlowe''s play Dr Faustus as it was first printed in 1604. This is one of the most celebrated of all Elizabethan...

Jean Genet and the politics of theatre is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political...

The first in-depth assessment of ''re-vision'' as a phenomenon in women''s drama, examining the diverse ways in which classical myth narratives hav...

George Chapman is known today as a translator of Homer and as the author of dark tragedies such as Bussy D'Ambois. An Humorous Day's Mirth, written...

Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of making and unmaking? And what did the terms finished or incomplete...

The Humorous Magistrate is a seventeenth-century satiric comedy extant in two highly distinctive manuscripts. The earliest and clearly working draf...

Of all the poets Francis Meres names in his famous Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598), just two rate a mention as being both our best for tragedy...

This study considers how John Lyly''s characters who are allegorical representations of Elizabeth validate the queen, but at the same time raise tr...

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

Music was a subject of considerable debate during the Renaissance. The notion that music could be interpreted in a meaningful way clashed regularly...

A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's theory and practice of theatre, with a full set of exercis...

''Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage... we badly need to hear what he has to say.'' David Lan Hanoch Levin was one of Israel''s leadi...

In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of ...

Playwriting is a skill under-explored in the classroom, despite the strong evidence that its an engaging and rewarding activity for young people. T...

This book examines the many and varied uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic language in seventeenth-century English drama. Adrian Streete argues t...

The Twice-Changd Friar is one of four early seventeenth-century plays preserved in a manuscript miscellany in the library of the Newdigate family o...