Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009...

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009...

Shakespeares four-hundred-year performance history is full of anecdotes ribald, trivial, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and always but lo...

What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, The Phoenix and Turtle? Could the Phoenix represent Queen Elizabeth, on the verge of death as ...

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cult...

Over 50 years after his first appearance on the theatre scene, Edward Bond remains a hugely significant figure in the history of modern British pla...

The story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism. Spanning 18...

You can paint your placards til the cows come home, but until you have marched through this town in five inch heels and fishnets, you will never kn...

This completely new edition of The Recruiting Officer contains a freshly-edited play text, with new annotations, in modern spelling. Tiffany Stern'...

Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early modern texts, revealing overlooked opportunities for understanding...

Art has a lot to answer for. So says Sarah Bernhardt in Ronald Harwoods play After the Lions. Harwoods own career can be summarized by that same qu...

A wide-ranging group of scholarly essays that probe the historical nature of English identity, both through self-definition and in relationship to ...

A wide-ranging group of scholarly essays that probe the historical nature of English identity, both through self-definition and in relationship to ...

This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeares texts obviously destined for stage performances to generate images and mental colours in the...

The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. Howev...

The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. Howev...

Amid the crowded streets of Chester, guild players portraying biblical characters performed on colorful mobile stages hoping to draw the attention ...

Lauded as one of the most important poets and playwrights of the twentieth century, Federico García Lorca was also an accomplished theatre director...

A study of religion through the lens of Peter Shaffers play Equus.   In Unbridled, William Robert uses Equus, Peter Shaffers enigmatic play about a...

Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, teacher, and author, was an inspired critic. Forms of Attention is based on a series of three lectures he g...