Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

In the summer of 1960, director C. Douglas Ramey took his Carriage House Players theater company down the street from their Old Louisville venue to...

Winner of seven Molières, the Pulitzer Prize of France, Jean-Claude Grumberg is one of Frances leading dramatists and a distinguished voice of mode...

Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badious suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identitarian specificity, one might ...

For Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation, the global digital media environment is a brave new world of opportunity and revolution. In OuterSpea...

Im a monster. You cant marry me. Jay and Paul are both serving life sentences for homophobic murders. Incredibly, they fall in love and seek permi...

Chin up, now. Got to have thick skin down here. In 1974 London, three musicians and their manager seal themselves inside an underground recording ...

Spanish poet, playwright, and novelist Félix Lope de Vega (15621635) was a key figure of Golden Age Spanish literature, second only in stature to C...

This detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles' Antigone is meant to be a reflection on and response to Hegel's interpretation in...

This is the first book-length study of one of the most talented and exciting American playwrights working today. Stephen Adly Guirgis has said t...

Exploring the relationship between dramatic language and its theatrical aspects, Reading Modern Drama provides an accessible entry point for genera...

What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms? Using this question as a starting point, Shakespeares Guide to Hope, L...