Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

The Whirlwind of Passion: New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare is a combination of critical, linguistic, stylistic, translation and per...

In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music-heard, imagined, or remembered-to infiltrat...

In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the und...

In uncovering the origin of the designation 'University Wits', Bob Logan examines the characteristics of the Wits and their influence on the course...

Unless its a football match maybe then or em at the supermarket food and football, eh, the Englishman common ground Neutral territory for the masse...

This book focuses on the development of Attic comedy as it is evinced in four fragmentary plays by Aristophanes: Polyidus, Daedalus, Aeolosicon, an...

The academic community treats the chronology of Shakespeare's works as settled. He supposedly served an apprenticeship collaborating on plays in th...

The two Henry IV plays, described as the twin summits of Shakespeare's achievement, feature the unlikely friendship of Prince Hal and Falstaff. Thi...

Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical and non-canonical texts with...

The volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how 21st-century British theatre increasingly intercuts dystopian and utopian elements to ...

A collection of thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeares plays In Shakespearean Issues, ...

We are living in times when populism, war and climate change are all sources of anxiety caused by overlapping crises. Anxiety is a phenomenon that ...

Radically rethinking translation for the contemporary international stage, Jean Graham-Jones interrogates standard linguistic and cultural categori...

The point is to divest yourself of shame Its about getting clean. Thirty something Luka is new to Alcoholics Anonymous and looking for a sponsor.?...

In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are th...