Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

This innovative collection features essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars and reconsiders textual practices in contemporary perfor...

British playwright Howard Barker coined the term 'theatre of catastrophe' to describe his unique brand of complex, ambiguous, and often unsettling ...

What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction; and the greatest good is fleeting, for all life is a dream, and even d...

Page to Stage series highly accessible guides to the world's best-known plays, written by established theatre professionals to show how the plays ...

Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. * Brian ...

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books...

Taking a comprehensive, critical, and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in educational policy and pedagogy from 1989 (the year compul...

Philadelphia is one of America's most interesting and innovative cities for theater, rich in new theaters, new plays, and rising playwrights. This ...

To study an archive or archival materials is to encounter an affective and critical practice involved in the construction of memory. Lexicon for an...

My name is Karim Amir, and I am an Englishman born and bred. Almost. South London in the late seventies. High unemployment, high inflation, food s...

King Henry IV, Part I: The 30-Minute Shakespeare combines comedy, tragedy, and history into a rollicking six-scene drama performable in a half hour...

Loves Labors Lost: The 30-Minute Shakespeare plays three action-packed scenes from this tale of King Navarre and his three lords, who have vowed to...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

Get young people excited about Shakespeare! The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The co...

Hamlet: The 30-Minute Shakespeare offers five scenes from this enduring tragedy. The Ghost of Hamlets father calls for vengeance, and Hamlet uses ...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challeng...

King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare renders six powerful scenes from this enduring tragedy. Starting with Lears banishment of Cordelia, the plot a...

A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience . . . guided by a sagacious, knowledgeable, and intuitive educator.Library Journal ...

A master at engaging students in the process of performing a Shakespeare scene.—Janet Field-Pickering, head of education, Folger Shakespeare Librar...