Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Through a formalist, structuralist analysis, Rene Pedro Garay defines the Vicente comedias against their socio-historical backdrop, and the literar...

Examines representations of the actress in Victorian novels and theatresThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a signi...

Staging the revolution offers a reappraisal of the weight and volume of theatrical output during the commonwealth and early Restoration, both in te...

This is a close reading of a play by Felix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) - a Spanish playwright, poet, and major figure of Spanish Baroque literature - ...

From the Gay Repertoire is the first guide to consider the total sweep of gay plays published in English, not just those that were produced on Broa...

The first play collection from Anders Lustgarten, perhaps Britain's most visible and visibly engaged political playwright (Time Out London), conta...

Samuel Becketts theatrical works maintain a prominent position within contemporary theatre. His plays provide a prodigious potential to study sever...

The latest volume of the Yale French Studies Series reexamines the vexed relationship between the theater and contemporary conceptions of morality ...

This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...

This is an essential overview of this influential Greek drama, enabling students to confidently read the play in depth and understand its unique cu...

Brings Ben Jonson to the twenty-first century by reading Volpone through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and MarxismThrough studying Volpone's th...

Is gender learned or innate? This controversial play asks the question: what happens if you raise a boy to sew and behave as a girl, and raise his ...

This collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables exploration of ...

The collection solo/black/woman features seven solo performances by emerging and established feminist performance artists from the past three decad...