Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford, which has not seen much previous critical attention due to bein...

This book presents a collection of chapters that revise past, present and future approaches related to Shakespeare on Film in order to trace the mo...

Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare is a study of the power of names; more specifically, it is about the power of naming, asking who gets to choose na...

Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the ...

'[A] fascinating new study builds a compelling case for the unique contribution of medieval and early modern girls to a number of cultural spheres...

Exploring a wide variety of examples of activist performances, such as David Buckels self-immolation, and the January 6th capitol insurrection, thi...

In this volume, Lee Brewer Jones examines Paula Vogel as both a playwright and renowned teacher, analyzing texts and early reviews of Vogels major ...

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divide...

This book offers tools to address the growing and urgent interest in exposing and challenging unconscious biases in the studio, exploiting how acto...

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have ...

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th-century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ...

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Becketts oeuvre from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays...

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to att...

This is the first volume dedicated to Aristophanes' comedy Peace that analyses the play for a student audience and assumes no knowledge of Greek. I...

Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe...

The incredible journey of a musical from potential disaster to success, and the Broadway industry that managed to stay alive during the pandemic sh...

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assas...

Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatric...

This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not...