Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

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...

The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s, ending over half-a-century of performances by men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Val...

Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant impact in the U. S. and beyond...

- How do actors prepare a script of a Shakespeare play for performance? - Where do directors begin? - What do Shakespeare's plays offer a designer ...

A groundbreaking new account of the author of The Spanish Tragedy that establishes him as a major Elizabethan dramatistThomas Kyd (15581594) was a ...

This book begins by asking about the memorial issues involved in the replaying of an old history play, Shakespeare and Fletchers Henry VIII, at the...

Shakespeares Shrews: Italian Traditions of Paradoxes and the Womans Debate investigates the echoes of two early modern discoursesparadoxical writin...

Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews embarking on an arranged marriage, despite barely knowing each other. Abe and Julia are high-profile celebriti...

Why Athena? I guess just like the goddess of strategic warfare and all that. In a New York City fencing club two warriors are ready to battle. At...

Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fieldings forgery of an actors biography, the book contends that s...

You cant live your life thinking everything you text will become public knowledge. Censoring yourself is no way to live. Everyone needs Jim. His m...

I came to New York when I was seventeen. I had all these ideas about how my life was gonna turn out. When I think about those ideas now, I dont kno...

If I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because Im just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like. Wel...

THE WORLD'S GREATEST SWORDSMEN...* A major new family comedy set in the world of the Three Musketeers sort of. When the famous Musketeers are lost...

The plays of María Martínez Sierra were popular in Spain, South America and in translation on Broadway and London's West End in the first half of t...

Since her early break-through at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995, where she won the George Devine award and was joint winner of the Verity Bargate ...

Dont know where I stand with the weatherman these days. One day its all warm and breezy and the next old Jack Frost comes to take the skin off your...

Fifteen years of disconnected sparks to do the damage. To stop her beautiful fantastical brain from working. Fall in love in my early 20s, get ma...

Simon Stephens' explosive play Rage was written as a counterpoint for Elfriede Jelinek's Wut. Composed as 31 high-energy scenes, each one is based ...

Matura's play not only offers a potted guide to Trinidadian ethnicity, economics and politics, but also a potent metaphor for the post-colonial pro...

Stop it. Stop it! Everyone! We're on holiday, we're meant to be having a nice time. What the hell is wrong with you? Tomas and Ebba are determined...

I want to be iconic. I want to be beautiful, reckless, feared, hated, ahead of the times. I want to be different, I want to be dangerous . . . Lo...

Matthew Wright brings Menanders Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and how it fits within the broader context of fourth-...

Lotharios Corpse unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britains eighteenth and early nineteenth c...