Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

In a theatre which self-consciously cultivated its audiences’ imagination, how and what did playgoers ‘see’ on the stage? This book reconstructs on...

The 'book' - both material and metaphoric - is strewn throughout Shakespeare's plays: it is held by Hamlet as he turns through revenge to madness; ...

This is the first major critical study of three late plays of Euripides: Helen, Andromeda and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Matthew Wright offers a...

The subjects of this book are the subjects whose subjects are themselves. Narcissus so himself himself forsook, And died to kiss his shadow in the...

Molière wrote, directed, and starred in comedies for public and court audiences in seventeenth-century France. He is perennially successful, but pe...

This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, particularly Italian, in late sixteenth and earl...

Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means ...

A popular and influential play from its first performance in 1611 until the early eighteenth century, 'A King and No King' helped establish tragico...

George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period. He was t...

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitiv...

Criticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from...

Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable te...

Since the appearance of the first volume in 1979, the Records of Early English Drama (REED) series has made available an accurate and useable trans...

The Henry VI plays are Shakespeare’s earliest, most theatrically exciting plays and in their day, they were among his most popular works. In a stor...

Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on ...

George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham (1628-1687) was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the Restoration period. He was t...

This is the first extended treatment of the English translations, stagings, and reception of the political plays of Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Focus...

Welcome to The Empire theatre1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised. But amid th...

"It is impossible to imagine any kind of moral life without obligations, and impossible to imagine obligations without types of promises. We are al...

South Africa has a uniquely rich and diverse theatre tradition which has responded energetically to the country’s remarkable transition, helping to...

He spent his earliest years in post-World War Two refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland - stealing cars, rolling drinks, battl...

In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to...

How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics ...