Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Shakespeares archetypal slapstick comedy, now with updated jokes and wordplay. One of Shakespeares earliest plays, The Comedy of Errors is a farcic...

Includes detailed listings of all major Shakespeare plays on stage and screen, this book covers performances in North America since 1991. It unique...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpeia leading scholar of noh theaterprovides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japans most celebra...

Winner of the 2020 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre I looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in t...

In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpeia leading scholar of noh theaterprovides a detailed account of the birth of one of Japans most celebra...

Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Becketts work across the world following the authors death in 1989, Becketts afterlives is the fir...

Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the way cultural works reanima...

Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, studied and performed around the world. This new volume in Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition...

What early modern and Shakespeare studies have to offer contemporary thinking about the future What do early modern and Shakespeare studies have to...

What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all trivial fond records'? How might ...

As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an ur...

A Warning for Fair Women is a 1599 true-crime drama from the repertory of Shakespeares acting company. While important to literary scholars and the...

A study of religion through the lens of Peter Shaffers play Equus.   In Unbridled, William Robert uses Equus, Peter Shaffers enigmatic play about a...

People always think a woman who thinks for herself, who speaks her mind is dangerous. So I didnt talk about my dreams or what was in my heart. And ...

So weve been cast in a post-war English Nationalist Anti-Fascist Kebab Shop reimagining of Henry V set in the future? The death of a national swee...

Michael Pennington examines the choices available to directors and performers and the impact of those choices on the overall interpretation of the ...

Michael Pennington examines the choices available to directors and performers and the impact of those choices on the overall interpretation of the ...

Michael Pennington examines the choices available to directors and performers and the impact of those choices on the overall interpretation of the ...