Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jaco...

Dramatically compressing the reign of Edward II and enlivening the historical narrative with humour, romance, and horrific violence, Marlowe interr...

Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jaco...

Reveals the theatrical dimensions of civilian support for the revolutionary GI Movement of the 1960s-70s Performance played a role both crucial and...

Reveals the theatrical dimensions of civilian support for the revolutionary GI Movement of the 1960s-70s Performance played a role both crucial and...

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London identifies the eighteenth-century comedic stage as a key site of feminist critique, practice, and expe...

If you could press a button and one hundred thousand vulnerable citizens died instantly but the rest of the population of the planet was guaranteed...

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London identifies the eighteenth-century comedic stage as a key site of feminist critique, practice, and expe...

Political Wisdom in Late Shakespeare: A Way Out of the Wreck assesses the four last plays of Shakespeares First FolioCymbeline, The Tempest, Henry ...

In the spring of 1846, the Donner and Reed families joined a wagon train bound for California in the hope of finding a better life. But when the pa...

She has, to my knowledge, an almost unblemished record in never having failed to spot a great new play Philip Howard, from his Foreword Joyce McMi...

Mad Foolish Ridiculous Ive been called many things. On an uneventful Wednesday in a drab Borough of East London, an ordinary man has a startlin...

Explores disturbing connections between authors and informers revealed in the metadrama of Shakespeare and JonsonHave you ever wondered what was re...

Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama...

This book provides a critical assessment of dramatic literature since 1995, situating texts, companies and writers in a cultural, political and soc...

What happens when we consider Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice as a play with real Jewish characters who are not mere ciphers for anti-Semitic ...