Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other ...

Friendship makes us fresh. And doth beget new courage in our breasts. A new play for young people and schools, created from Shakespeares works. I...

Two plays by the 2021 Papatango Prize-winning playwright Tom Powell. Surfacing NHS therapist Luc is fine. Honest. Shes definitely not overwhelme...

No what I think is there are people who are suffering and you cant go through your life as if they arent there and you dont help them? If everyone ...

Walking is a determining trope and structure in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, furnishing a textual and performance figure, a framing device, and a mater...

Walking is a determining trope and structure in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, furnishing a textual and performance figure, a framing device, and a mater...

Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall o...

Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall o...

This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spensers long and shorter poems for crea...

THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's favourite English Literature Study Guides.   York Notes for AS & A2 are specifi...

Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical prac...

Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical prac...

Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeares plays, S...

Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeares plays, S...

Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque focuses mainly on Shakespeares late (or later) works, those written from around 1607. It sets both poetry ...

This volume offers the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarcks Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006)....

This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the extensive work published on ...

Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both of Shakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern bl...

Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dantes Commedia which reveal elements inspired byprocessions, pageant...

Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democ...

Combines historical rigour with an analysis of dramatic contexts, themes and forms The 17 contributors explore the longstanding and vibrant Scottis...

This book provides a critical assessment of dramatic literature since 1995, situating texts, companies and writers in a cultural, political and soc...

Schätzungsweise 60 000 tödlich endende Hexenprozesse in Europa haben nicht nur in Prozessakten Spuren hinterlassen. Im Bewusstsein der Zeitgenossen...

We know William Shakespeare matters but we cannot pinpoint, precisely, why he matters. Lacking reasons why, we do our best to involve him in others...

Examines the impact of hearing on the formal and generic development of early modern theatreEarly modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art...

Illuminates our understanding of the soul as a historically and philosophically vital concept through Shakespearean dramaSecond Death seeks to revi...

This book is a one-stop-shop for the busy undergraduate studying Shakespeare. Offering detailed guidance to the plays most often taught on undergra...