Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

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Alan Ayckbourn is, after Shakespeare, Britains most performed playwright and acknowledged as one of its most skilful directors. In 50 years he has ...

Youre safe here. But you have to trust me now. For your own good. I need you to stay. Because if you go, I go and Id rather not. New Years Eve 197...

In the middle years of the sixteenth century, English drama witnessed the emergence of the tyrant by entrie or the usurper, who supplanted earlier ...

The six Latin Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer ('Terence'), written in the earlier second century BC, were well known in the ancient Roman world ...

This book demonstrates how a group of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries stage the fear and exhilaration generated by encounters with ...

Shakespeare Lied is Sky Gilbert's second rumination on Shakespeare to be published by Guernica Editions. It places 'the bard' at the centre of pres...

This volume explores the multiple connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. Involving both French...

Reading Shakespeares Poetry A lively exploration of Shakespeares poems and how they speak to readers Reading Shakespeares Poetry presents a fresh i...

Perhaps the most important, difficult, and unresolved issue in Shakespeare studies is the question of Lears last lines; the whole meaning of Shakes...

This book will serve to help the reader of Shakespeares plays by providing an introduction to the various literary critical issues that this great ...

Kenneth Branagh is the most important contemporary figure in the production of filmed Shakespeare. His five feature-length Shakespeare films, Henry...

This book will serve to help the reader of Shakespeares plays by providing an introduction to the various literary critical issues that this great ...

Why have contemporary playwrights been obsessed by Shakespeares plays to such an extent that most of the canon has been rewritten by one rising dra...

Shakespeare has been one of the most-cited authors since his plays were performed, and yet little attention has been paid to his views on psychic p...

Shakespeares King Lear is often called his mightiest play. This comprehensive edition by S. Nagarajan (who edited the evergreen Signet edition of M...

An absolutely joyous, gasp-out-loud achievement. - Stephen FryA cathedral of consciousness - Shakespeare's uncanny insight into human nature finds ...