Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

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 ...

This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition, providing insight into the foundations, theories, and...

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare...

Shakespeares last plays, because of their apparent similarity in thematic concern, dramatic arrangements and stylistic features, are often consider...

Nigeria, England, America, Jamaica; are you proud of where you're from? Dark skinned, light skinned, afro, weaves, who are your true brothers and s...

This collection brings together a variety of essays by prominent academicians from around the world to project on the current trends in the vast ar...

I know you hey. Youre the one thats always in the back of the library. Like a little library gremlin. Eating up knowledge. And Haribo Its a new te...

Ireland, north and south of the border, has witnessed volatile patterns of immigration in the past decade, and stage representations of these fluct...

The last decade has witnessed a spate of high-profile presentations of The Merchant of Venice: the 2004 Michael Radford film, 2010s New York City S...

Are some of Shakespeares romantic storybook heroines actually emoting sexually obscene (but very funny) lines?{Sexual quibbles (puns, play-on words...

Hamlet kills Polonius thinking he is Claudius. Yet he cannot kill Claudius. Why?Hamlet, angry, tells Ophelia: Take thee to a nunnery! [nunnery: Ren...