Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of playfrom dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itselfthis volume offers new insight...

Mr Parks, this isnt just a movie, its a whole movement. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant. The Golden Age of Hollywood. Behind closed doors...

Macbeth is often read in a singular fashion: either as a cautionary morality tale warning against ambition, or as a psychological study of evil. In...

Thomas Dekkers singular comic drama, The Shoemakers Holiday moves through the urban landscape of 16th century apprenticeships and artisan productio...

Thomas Dekkers singular comic drama, The Shoemakers Holiday moves through the urban landscape of 16th century apprenticeships and artisan productio...

The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920) is a collection of essays by T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot is primarily recognized as one of th...

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeares plays, poems and sonnets, edite...

A dynamic kaleidoscope of story that honors the work of women.Kin is a story and a celebration of Black womanhood, of resistance, and of perseveran...

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century....

The show that we're about to do is a story about the future. The story that we're going to tell is the story of us; the story of our future. It's a...

Forms of Conflict is a full-length study of the representation of contemporary warfare on the British stage and investigates the strategies deploye...

This book focuses on teaching Shakespeare to young pupils and deals with issues of interest to all educationalists. It raises questions about the g...

Passionate, controversial and illuminating this collection contains Empsons best short pieces on Shakespeare, a sally on George Herbert, a defence...

The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of merc...

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

Sometimes you surprise people into being better than they are. Laura and Anna, half-sisters, plan a grand net stretching across the skyline of Nor...

This unique book desribes the ways in which educational practitioners at Shakespeare's Globe theatre bring Shakespeare to life for students of all ...

The Celtic Tiger era witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of transnational migrants entering Ireland. By the 2011 Census, 17% of the popula...

ROMARD is an academic journal devoted to the study and promotion of Medieval and Renaissance drama in Europe. Previously published under the title ...

Anne Charlotte Leffler (1849-1892) was the most important European woman playwright of the last decades of the nineteenth century and together with...

The second of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Mar...