Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

This book reveals the remarkable life of a Renaissance New Yorker sustained by the play Hamlet. Cravens detective work finds for the first time Apo...

Dr Ronald Gray, Fellow of Emmanuel College, lectured at Cambridge University on German Literature and Philosophy for 33 years, and now expands his ...

A scrupulous study of Shakespeares The Tempest and its most comprehensive rewriting Indigo, or Mapping the Waters by Marina Warner. Taking as its f...

The first decade of the new century has certainly been a busy one for diversity in Shakespearean performance and interpretation, yielding, for exam...

This volume argues that a focus on the European reception of Othello represents an important contribution to critical work on the play. The chapter...

I am not your punch bag! I am a Member of Parliament! An MP with an instinct for compassion. An ex-serviceman with a life in free fall. And a pa...

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire a...

Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His pla...

Black Nikki doesnt think her dad is a racist He just cares deeply about his community But when a Zimbabwean family move in over the road, the d...

There was a cliff on the horizon. I didnt know, but then again, maybe I did, and I just didnt want to look. She meets him at an old friends barbec...

Meet Jamie, Sadhbh and Collette: three best friends on a wild night out in Dublin. By the end of the night, Collette will be dead. Can you save her...

An intimate, moving and ultimately uplifting new monologue play. Replay is the story of a woman revisiting her childhood, coming to terms with the ...

You didn't fancy it then? Fancy what? Getting in the taxi. No. Every story starts somewhere. Its the early hours of the morning and Dannys the la...