Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Aeschylus' Agamemnon, the first play in the Oresteia trilogy, is one of the most influential theatrical texts in the global canon. In performance, ...

In this second volume of Renaissance Comedy, Donald Beecher presents six more of the best-known plays of the period, each with its own introduction...

The second of Lorca's trilogy of rural dramas, Yerma, is a blend of contrasting moods through which Lorca charts the increasingly destructive obses...

Links acting traditions with cultural milieu.. No other book on Hamlet on the stage covers as much theoretical ground.. Covers a number of foreign...

This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerou...

Is there a distinctly Canadian Shakespeare? What is the status and function of Shakespeare in various locations within the nation: at Stratford, on...

Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational poli...

Competitive price and format. Compacted and up-to-date version of the earlier Revels Plays edition by the same editor, taking account of more recen...

Thomas Dekker's The Shoemaker's Holiday is one of the most popular of Elizabethan plays, entertaining, racy and vivid in its characterisation. Rev...

In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imag...

This annotated translation is the first systematic rendering into any Western language of the nine major treatises on the art of the Japanese No th...

After an historical survey of A Midsummer Night's Dream from Shakespeare's time through to the 19th century, Jay Halio focuses primarily on 20th ce...

Expanded footnotes designed to help readers from all levels of familiarity with Elizabethan drama. Emphasis on the play as a theatre text - informa...

Since an account of every known staging would require several volumes, Kleist on Stage is limited to major productions in Germany, Austria, and Swi...

John Ford's tragedy, first printed in 1633, is the first major English play to take as its theme a subject still rarely handled: fulfilled incest b...

A companion volume to his Critique of Religion and Philosophy, this book offers Walter Kaufmann's critical interpretations of some of the great min...

Aristotle's Poetics combines a complete translation of the Poetics with a running commentary, printed on facing pages, that keeps the reader in con...

Reading Adaptations provides an original introduction to the widespread and extremely popular practice of stage adaptation in the late eighteenth a...

This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on whether...

Paris has always exerted a magnetic force on artists; it has historically offered safety to those escaping oppressive regimes in Europe and farther...

These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which incl...

This literary detective story throws light on the problem of what Shakespeare was doing between leaving school and appearing as an actor and playwr...

Blasted brought Sarah Kane to the theatre pages of the broadsheets, the front pages of the tabloids, and to the notice of the nation. Covers all Ka...

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchesss of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and tho...

Energetically places modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory in dialogue, demonstrating how theory allows fresh insights...

Introduction to English Renaissance comedy provides a comprehensive introduction to Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline comedy, covering both public...

Women Beware Women is among the most powerful and adroitly plotted of Jacobean tragedies. Written by Thomas Middleton, a later contemporary of Sha...

This title explores the myriad decisions directors and actors make to produce a version of Shakespeare's play. It's full discussions of eighteen pr...

Of all of Jonson's plays, Bartholomew Fair with its focus on the conflict between a carnivalesque enjoyment of the flesh and society's desire for o...

In 1994 the Arts Council of Great Britain brought together a number of theatre directors as part of the City of Drama celebrations. This is a colle...

The introduction to this edition contains an analysis of the first quarto (including new evidence of its original dating) and a reconsideration of ...

Focusing on Shakespeare's Hamlet as foremost a study of grief, Alexander Welsh offers a powerful analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of th...

Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, ...

This edition of "The Devil is an Ass" (1616) aims to provide an insight into Jonson's life and work, the theatrical qualities of the play, its poli...

Excellent Revels text now back in print at the new £9.99 price. Leading edition of this play by Ben Jonson - no other edition of this calibre at th...

This edition of Jonson's great Roman tragedy is more intensively researched than any that has previously appeared. The text is based on extensive ...

In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy ...

This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and e...

Twentieth century critics have definite ideas about tragedy. They maintain that in a true tragedy, fate must feel the resistance of the tragic hero...

This is the eighth volume of a detailed play-by-play catalogue of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish authors during the 110 years...

Focusing on early modern plays which stage encounters between peoples of different cultures, this book asks how a sense of geographical location wa...

This volume contains the proceedings of the Zeami and the No Theatre in the World symposium, held in New York City in October 1997, in conjunction ...

Greek tragedy is one of the most important cultural legacies of the classical world, with a rich and varied history and reception, yet it appears t...