Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to hav...

Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary c...

The contributions to this book examine various facets of the work of Shakespeare from an Eastern perspective. As such, Fundamental Shakespeare shed...

A unique collection of Shakespeare's every reflection on the theatre, offering fascinating insights into the man, his work, and the world of the Ja...

Thirty years ago a promising young actor published his account of preparing for and playing the role of Richard III. Antony Sher's Year of the King...

How do writers of contemporary fiction incorporate Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy? This collection brings together some of...

What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questionsbearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politi...

This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and...

Adorno and Modern Theatre explores the drama of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker and Sarah Kane in the context of the work of leading philo...

As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners to...

The voice traverses Beckett's work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside t...

Nadia Anwar analyzes select post-independence Nigerian dramas through the conceptual framework of metatheater, a strategy that breaks dramatic illu...

'This book gives some of the very best of Shakespeares twenty-first-century colleagues an opportunity to share insights that can only come from pla...

'A part we have played is like a person we once met, grew to know, became intimately enmeshed with and finally moved away from. Some of these chara...

This book explores the way in which doubling takes place in several novels, films, and dramas, primarily focusing on modern drama and exploring how...

A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American pr...

Caridad Svich offers a new take on the history play, which tells the story of Henry VIIIs marriage to Anne Boleyn. Shakespeares Henry VIII is a sto...