Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

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...

The Irish Theatre in Transition explores the ever-changing Irish Theatre from its inception to its vibrant modern-day reality. This book shows some...

An anthology that reimagines Shakespeares works from the perspective of the United StatesMexico Borderlands. For decades, Chicanx and Indigenous th...

An anthology that reimagines Shakespeares works from the perspective of the United StatesMexico Borderlands. For decades, Chicanx and Indigenous th...

Lillian Groag presents a new version of Troilus and Cressida that will resonate with contemporary audiences. One of the most obscure plays in Shake...

Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical and modern literary works. This ...

Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It includes a wide ...

The essays in this volume challenge current 'givens' in medieval and early modern research around periodization and editorial practice. They showca...

The two-part tale of King Henry IV, rewritten with new language for the twenty-first century. Shakespeares two Henry IV plays follow the exploits o...

Shakespeares tragic story of revenge is reimagined for the twenty-first century.   One of Shakespeares goriest plays, Titus Andronicus traces the f...

Amy Freed rewrites The Taming of the Shrew, one of the more problematic plays in the Shakespeare canon. While beloved for its sharp dialogue and wi...

To thine own text be trueLisa Petersons translation of Hamlet into contemporary American English makes the play accessible to new audiences while k...

Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan block...