Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late s...

Adapting Western Classics for the Chinese Stage presents a comprehensive study of transnational, transcultural, and translingual adaptations of Wes...

Arguably the first play in a Shakespearean tetralogy, Richard II is a unique and compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. It i...

Originally published in 1979, this volume includes the full text of James Marston's The Wonder of Women, alongside critical and textual notes. Prev...

The authors of this book ask how digital research tools are changing the ways in which practicing editors historicize Shakespeare's language. Schol...

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 ...

Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romantici...

Published in 1987: This thesis presents an edition of the authors play, Monsieur Thomas, with a substantial introduction in several sections and a ...

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It ...

Unbinding Medea signals the very different answers to medea to provoke debate that transcends individual and discipline-specific approaches to the ...

In this volume, the author argues that blood was, crucially, a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17...

Shepard argues that the Marlowe plays wrestle with the philosophical assumptions about the nature of war and the role and status of soldiers in Eng...

Taking its cue from Baudelaires important essay The Painter of Modern Life, in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a man of the world, t...

Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary ...

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

Published in 1993: The first modern scholarly edition of the author's play, not published until 1778. Sebastian reclaims his betrothed from Antonio...

New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms...

Although it was probably conceived as a trilogy, only the first two parts of Thomas Deloney's prose romance were completed, dealing with the origin...

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 ...

Published in 1987: The author translated the Ignoramous which is a Latin play into English.

Critical investigation into the rubric of 'Shakespeare and the visual arts' has generally focused on the influence exerted by the works of Shakespe...

Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wildes public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing. Thro...

Originally published in 1987, An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example, offers a critical examination of James Shirley's 163...

This collection reconsiders Miltons engagement with Greek texts, with particular attention to the theological and theatrical meanings attached to G...

This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affe...

Published in 1985: The main plot portrays the bachelor Octavio, Marquis of Siena, and his establishment of his Bower of Fancies, something like a P...

Originally published in 1984, this book contains the full text of I, Sir John Oldcastle, alongside critical and textual notes, including an examina...

Originally published in 1982, this book contains the Thomas Middleton and Williiam Rowley's full play, The Old Law, alongisde textual and critical ...

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. ...

The startling central idea behind this study is that the rediscovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the sixteenth century ultimately had a profound impa...

Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money! - Bynum WalkerAugust Wilson considered Joe Turners Come and Gone (1984) to be his favourite...

This title was first published in 2002: In the topsy-turvy 1580s and 1590s, as the episodic Anglo-Spanish war became the greatest threat to English...

This title was first published in 2002: An intensive study of Shakespeare's most ambitious and complex achievement in the historical mode. The book...

This book, together with A Second Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.M. For...

This book, together with A Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.M. Forces ser...

Murdering Ministers integrates everything worth knowing about Shakespeares Macbeth from four centuries of criticism and performances, stage as well...

Why is voice so important to us? How does the concept of voice encompass such disparate practices as vocal sound, marks on a page, identity product...

Volpone, Or, The Fox is Ben Jonsons great parable of greed, self-interest and inheritance. Using animal fable to satirize the wealthy and the greed...

Volpone, Or, The Fox is Ben Jonsons great parable of greed, self-interest and inheritance. Using animal fable to satirize the wealthy and the greed...

This study punctures the stereotyped portrayals of Marlowe, first created by his rival Robert Greene, and, yet, which still colour our view. In doi...

The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the r...

This book delves into the aesthetics and processes by which Latinx writers and creatives artfully adapt and appropriate Shakespeare for young reade...

A collection of essays that considers the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with complex Shakespearean texts In his own time, Shake...

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, ...

If misogyny is a systemic problem, then in order to understand its influence on canonical works like Shakespeare's, those works must be investigate...