Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

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 ...

I exist now. Dont tell me that I didnt exist before. How should a nation apologise for the crimes of its past? Seoul, 1991. She kept her silence ...

Denationalizing Identities explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan Lim's study of four import...

Denationalizing Identities explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan Lim's study of four import...

Almost fifty years before Bram Stoker penned Dracula, Dion Boucicault staged The Vampire, a three-act play that thrilled London audiences as well a...

In London in 1770 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (17421799) remarked, What a work could be written on Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick! There is somet...

Enchanting - Simon Russell Beale Remarkable - James ShapiroWonderful . . . compulsively readable - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an ...

These two electric pieces of work originated from Brixton House's Housemates Festival in summer 2023, back to grace the stage for Housemates Return...

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive ap...

Existential Figure silently screams. Everything is wiped clean. The fabric of reality starts to fall apart. Grieving Figure finds themself on a h...