Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Dont know where I stand with the weatherman these days. One day its all warm and breezy and the next old Jack Frost comes to take the skin off your...

Fifteen years of disconnected sparks to do the damage. To stop her beautiful fantastical brain from working. Fall in love in my early 20s, get ma...

Simon Stephens' explosive play Rage was written as a counterpoint for Elfriede Jelinek's Wut. Composed as 31 high-energy scenes, each one is based ...

Matura's play not only offers a potted guide to Trinidadian ethnicity, economics and politics, but also a potent metaphor for the post-colonial pro...

Stop it. Stop it! Everyone! We're on holiday, we're meant to be having a nice time. What the hell is wrong with you? Tomas and Ebba are determined...

I want to be iconic. I want to be beautiful, reckless, feared, hated, ahead of the times. I want to be different, I want to be dangerous . . . Lo...

Matthew Wright brings Menanders Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and how it fits within the broader context of fourth-...

Lotharios Corpse unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britains eighteenth and early nineteenth c...

Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other ...

Friendship makes us fresh. And doth beget new courage in our breasts. A new play for young people and schools, created from Shakespeares works. I...

Two plays by the 2021 Papatango Prize-winning playwright Tom Powell. Surfacing NHS therapist Luc is fine. Honest. Shes definitely not overwhelme...

No what I think is there are people who are suffering and you cant go through your life as if they arent there and you dont help them? If everyone ...

Walking is a determining trope and structure in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, furnishing a textual and performance figure, a framing device, and a mater...

Walking is a determining trope and structure in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre, furnishing a textual and performance figure, a framing device, and a mater...

Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall o...

Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusing on instances that fall o...

This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spensers long and shorter poems for crea...

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Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical prac...

Shakespeare and the Law appreciates Shakespeare and his works as expressions of an English early modern culture in which the shared rhetorical prac...