Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Plutarch's Life of Caesar deals with the best known Roman of them all, Julius Caesar, and his vivid narrative covers most of the major events of th...

Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romantici...

Seneca's Oedipus is a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest. It is the only surviving ancient Roman play on one of the most importan...

This collection of fourteen essays and six short responses reconsiders Greek tragedy as a reflection of Athenian political culture. The contributor...

The powerful exchanges between stage, stake, and scaffold - the theatre, the bear garden and the spectacle of public execution - crucially informed...

The state is at its most volatile when supreme power changes hands. This book studies five such moments of transfer in the sixteenth and early seve...

This is an invaluable introduction to ancient Greek tragedy which discusses every surviving play in detail and provides all the background informat...

In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech wa...

Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means ...

The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus to explore the contributions of artists from r...

Cratinus, one of the lost great poets of fifth-century Athenian comedy, had a formative influence on the comic genre, including Aristophanes himsel...

Antigone has become a major figure in current cultural discourse thanks to the late twentieth-century interpretations by such controversial theoris...

Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon. It marks the transition from the earlier history plays dominated...

Seneca's Oedipus is a work of exceptional historical and dramatic interest. It is the only surviving ancient Roman play on one of the most importan...

The dramatic career of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, from his first plays in 1902 to his premature death in 1909, almost exactly coincided with ...

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, the authorities in the German Democratic Republic always denied that they practised censorship. In this f...

The history of Irish Travellers is not analogous to that of the 'tinker', a Europe-wide underworld fantasy created by sixteenth-century British and...

Rhesus, a tragedy traditionally (but wrongly) attributed to Euripides, has been the object of too little scholarly attention over the last decades....

What is it about Hamlet that has made it such a compelling and vital work? Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages is an account of Shakespeare's...

A reissue of the E. K. Chambers's seminal four-volume account of the private, public, and court stages, together with other forms of drama and spec...

The first study to consider masques from the point of view of reception as well as production, Reading Masques illuminates intersections of elite a...

Conversing with Antiquity collects, in a substantially revised and updated form, studies, by one of the leading scholars in the field, of the recep...

Notions, constructions, and performances of race continue to define the contemporary American experience, including our conceptions, performances, ...

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 ...