Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024 Every time Ive tried to make this dish theres been something missing. It hasnt been quite right. Bu...

Winner of a Fringe First Award 2024 Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024 Look, there are two ways to go. Do you freeze in place, looking...

As far as I'm concerned, why get paid to sit on my arse at home when I can get paid to sit on my arse in a lobby Where I also get paid Bea's secre...

Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024 Grieving is weird and expensive. Jamie cant swim. Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken f...

Some stereotypes have an element of truth. A presented set of rules but in the end you get to choose. What happens if you're not Black enough for...

In your human world you see only so much less but you claim so much knowledge. Experience is not what happens to someone but what one does with wh...

One morning, as I was writing, I suddenly understood that as a species, through incredible stubbornness, we were able to write love into our geneti...

Ive always been known for my timing. Its what makes me a great batsman... Today, Ive got the worst timing known to man. Its the summer of 2005, En...

GREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted argument for reversing what everybody knows about the relation...

First published in 1991, Peter Brook and the Mahabharata is a collection of essays which contextualizes the production of Peter Brooks The Mahabhar...

First published in 1977, the third edition of Pinter is an excellent analysis of Harold Pinter and his works. Written when Pinter was only a few pl...

This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to...

A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical r...

Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern da...

First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslins earlier writings on Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht. In the ...

Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring work by performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The journal...

The first collection of plays from Olivier-nominated playwright Isley Lynn, whose award-winning work uplifts their deeply human characters through ...

Every kang deserves a crown Things are heating up in Memphis as the annual Hot Wing Festival rolls into town. With their sights set on the crown, ...

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theat...