Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Naomi Wallace, an American playwright based in Britain, is one of the more original and provocative voices in contemporary theatre. Her poetic, ero...

New versions of Shakespeares history plays from director and translator Douglas Langworthy.    In his three Henry VI plays, Shakespeare tackles the...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by...

Irene G. Dash explores the influence of Shakespeare on American musical theater through analyses of five important productions from 1938 through 19...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in Engl...

This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Norman Mailer's body of work. It examines important literary, critical, the...

Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provid...

Described by the TLS as 'a formidable bibliographical achievement destined to become a key reference work for Shakespeareans', Shakespeare in Prin...

Edward III comes to life in a new version by playwright Octavio Solis. Written after Englands victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588, Edward III f...

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...