Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Participants in the current debate about the literary canon generally separate the established literary order--of which Shakespeare is the most vis...

Contemporary playwright David Mamet's thought-provoking plays and screenplays such as Wag the Dog, Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitz...

"Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our cultu...

The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the material culture of sixt...

The Routledge Companion to Adaptation offers a broad range of scholarship from this growing, interdisciplinary field. With a basis in source-orient...

This title offers an introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays, written in an accessible, jar...

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentr...

Does satire have the ability to effect social reform? If so, what satiric style is most effective in bringing about reform? This book explores how ...

This book is about interjections and their transcultural issues. Challenging the marginalization of the past, the ubiquity of interjections and tra...

This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, while its lively introduction explains why Webster’s inte...

Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine to th...

"A splendid edition: it incorporates the most recent modern scholarship ... and it does so within a compass and format that is both readable and us...

Shakespeare and Superman? Shakespeare and The Twilight Zone? Shakespeare and romance novels? What is Shakespeare doing in modern popular culture? I...

Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a pr...

This book posits that Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy draws inspiration from the Italian “politic histories” of the early modern period. These works ...

Stratford made the man, but London made the phenomenon that is Shakespeare. This volume takes an historical approach to Shakespeare's connections w...

This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes is a text of continuing relev...

This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about what should be counted as sources in Shakespeare...

William Shakespeare wrote during a great age of exploration, not only of England but around the globe. The locales featured in the playwright’s wor...

First Published in 1996. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. It consists of monograp...

Stratford made the man, but London made the phenomenon that is Shakespeare. This volume takes an historical approach to Shakespeare's connections w...

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds.In contrast to th...

Publishing its nineteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that...

Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and look...

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages wit...

This book charts the impact of Shakespeare’s works on Harold Pinter’s career as a playwright.This exploration traces Shakespeare’s influence throug...

This collection of plays from late-medieval England includes a rich selection of noncycle plays and morality plays along with some of the better-kn...

Even the most explicitly political contemporary approaches to Shakespeare have been uninterested by his tyrants as such. But for Shakespeare, rathe...

Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the ...

Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754) was the foremost representative of the Danish-Norwegian Enlightenment and also a European figure of note. He published s...

Friend and rival of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson was one of the most learned and interesting men of his age. Throughout his fascinating life, he served ...

Originally published in 1951 this full length study gives an account of Büchner’s life and personality, together with an account of his three plays...

From the "angry young man" who wrote Who's Afraid ofVirginia Woolf in 1962, determined to expose the emptiness of American experience to Tiny Alice...

@text: The Art of John Webster, first published in 1972, is a study of the three extant plays of Webster known to be solely his work. These plays a...

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim tha...

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in ear...

This study examines how hunger narratives and performances contribute to a reconsideration of neglected or prohibited domains of thinking which onl...

This book investigates the idea of comic seriousness in Old Comedy. The issue has been a vexing one in classical studies, and the most traditional ...

In this classic and much-loved edition of Marlowe's best-known play, John D. Jump provides the reader with a wealth of introductory and explanatory...

There has never been a retrospective on Christopher Marlowe as comprehensive, complete and up-to-date in appraising the Marlovian landscape. Each c...

First published in 1999. Although contemporary feminist criticism has mainly focused upon American women playwrights of the twentieth century-women...

In this book, Roger Travis brings together poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus. Beginning from Quint...

Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of ear...

In Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis, Matthew Biberman analyzes early adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in order to identify and illustrate ...

Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare’s plays. This volume takes up the iconographic, linguistic and...

The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood...

First published in 1970. This volume is an Investigation into Mr. Malone's Claim to the Character of Scholar or Critic, is an examination of his in...