Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

The subject of Britain analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King Jame...

Since the mid-1950s, when the works of Samuel Beckett began to attract sustained critical attention, commentators have tended either to dismiss his...

The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from cl...

The wild innovations of the early twentieth-century avant-garde have been widely celebrated for their influence on the course of experimental drama...

For years scholars and others have been trying to out Shakespeare as an ardent Calvinist, a crypto-Catholic, a Puritan-baiter, a secularist, or a d...

Over the past 20 years, feminist criticism has done more than any other form of literary criticism in bringing significant changes in how Shakespea...

Michael de Carvajal’s fascinating and unusual play—published by Luis Hurtado de Toledo in 1557—is a rare sixteenth-century theatrical piece about t...

The aesthetic exception theorises anew the relation between art and politics. It challenges critical trends that discount the role of aesthetic aut...

The theme of the great Shakespearean tragedies is the fall from grace of a great man due to a flaw in his nature. Whether it is the ruthless ambiti...

This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focusing on the years 1998-2023,...

Covering a broad historical spectrum from Greek Antiquity to the 21st century, this open access book asks how tragedy's formal features have impact...

Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights Second Edition provides a revised and greatly expanded holistic approach to play...

First published in 1986, Drama in the English Classroom demonstrates the contribution of drama in an English classroom. It suggests that drama acti...

Shakespeare in the 'Post'Colonies provides a wide-ranging examination of engagements with and adaptations of Shakespeare in regions that were once ...

Hospitality to strangers has become an increasingly prevalent topic in recent years, from political upheavals resulting in the displacement of mill...

Set in Ancient Rome, "Poetaster" offers one of the first and most subtle statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts Aug...

Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights Second Edition provides a revised and greatly expanded holistic approach to play...

"Webster's iconoclasm was not the lonely experience of an alienated intellectual, but part of his generation's struggle to create the future. As su...

'A spectacular journey... Highly recommended!' Dr Simon Smith, The Shakespeare Institute 'A fascinating and hugely entertaining guide to Shakespear...

Spanning from the debut of A Raisin in the Sun on Broadway in 1959 to her early death from cancer in January 1965, Lorraine Hansberry's short stint...