Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Actor and director David Ivers presents As You Like It, as youd like to hear it today. Presenting a new translation of Shakespeare into contemporar...

From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwri...

This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns...

How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colle...

Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adapta...

Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'  ha...

Good evening, Im Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! Im sorry, this mustve given you all a damn shock The original ver...

Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience ...

This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that...

This innovative collection features essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars and reconsiders textual practices in contemporary perfor...

Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre explores modern theatrical practices in Indonesia from a performance of Hamlet in the warehouses of Dutch Batavia t...

Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly s...

Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not...

How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of double, double toil and trouble at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything sci...

An exploration of the way English literature has interacted with architectural edifices and the development of landscape as a national style from t...

Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It examines how masques resp...