Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

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...

Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in sco...

The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dellArte Stage examines the emergence of the professional actress from the 1560s onwards in ...

This new edition of Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus offers the complete 1604 A-text with embedded selections from the 1616 B-text. Its innovati...

I am attempting to colonise the last frontier. Time, Elena, time. If we could inhabit different iterations of self, we could undo all the mistakes ...

The Spirit of Aristophanes is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of ancient literature and culture from fifth-century drama to the Roman nove...

The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton explores how stones, rocks, and the broader mineral realm play a vital role in early modern England's re...

Courteous Exchanges explores the significant overlap between Edmund Spensers Faerie Queene and Shakespeares plays, showing how both facilitate the ...

This edition is the first that treats Hamlet as the work of a philosophical poet concerned with knowing the nature of the world, particularly the ...

This book examines Field Day's cultural intervention into the Northern Irish 'Troubles' through individual readings of the fourteen plays produced ...

Through a metaphorical journey of Shakespeare in traditional Chinese theatre, using three Chinese opera productions of Hamlet as signposts, the boo...

Hailed as one of the most talented playwrights to have emerged in the late 2000s, Mike Bartlett's diverse range of plays strike at the heart of the...

Hailed as one of the most talented playwrights to have emerged in the late 2000s, Mike Bartlett's diverse range of plays strike at the heart of the...

One mans dream of the NHS. From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin Nye Bevan is often referred to as th...

This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. It broadens the scope of existing scholarship by situating ...

After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first tim...

After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first tim...

Terence's Phormio , based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. Wi...

Newest research into drama and performance from the Middle Ages and the Tudor period. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early t...

Considered by most scholars to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote, The Tempest is a stormy tale of betrayal and forgiveness. After being banis...