Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play Set in Londons Soho in the 1980s, Cruise tells the story of what should have been Michael ...

Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsio...

As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first aut...

As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first aut...

So, when you have the time and the space, the thoughts start to fill it, you know? Unless you fill it yourself. With a little burn mout. Or a littl...

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting, and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, S...

Tell me what you're gonna do, tell me all these things you're gonna do. That sounds like a story worth spoiling. Its Liverpool, 1987. The AIDS epi...

Can you ever really trust a machine? It is the near future. A couple are struggling to conceive, but fortunately their company has the perfect ...

I can't forget her...sometimes, thinking about everything I have to live up to, trying to be this new person, its too much. The only way I can make...

Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and electability... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community...

Im really looking forward to robbing this bank! Mischief's smash-and-grab hit The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is a fast, fabulous comedy caper and...

This isn't the story of Icarus and Daedalus. It's Yasmin and Jack. And we won't fly too close to the sun. We'll fly through the f***er. Yasmin is ...

...the history of this pub, the possibilities of what once could have happened in this room in which were now gathered Well. The possibilities. ...

Honestly the best science Ive ever done and - frankly the best science in the history of humankind - has started with the same thought experiment: ...

I was there you know. when we shut your places down. gender studies. social studies. the strongholds of your politically correct bullshit worldview...

Everyone is constructing themselves. Im just conscious of doing it. More than that, Im a sculptor of it. I am a fucking artist. Finalist: Popcorn...

Sometimes a lie is a wish. Once upon a time there was a lonely carpenter, a curious cat, and a little wooden puppet who one day came to life In ...

It's moral vision, as well as the Miller voice, which remains as strong and unrelenting as a prophet's, that distinguish Broken Glass. - The New Yo...

Matthew, I dont give a f*** whos Irish and whos not. Im just thinking about whats best for your career. And thats how themmuns in Londonll see you....

Dress by Ganni. Bra by Coco de Mer. Knife by Stanley. A gripping revenge tale about an actress in her 40s under investigation for the murder of an...