Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

This is the inside story of the Royal Shakespeare Company - a running historical critique of a major national institution and its location within B...

English Drama Since 1940 considers the bids of successive post-war dramatists to find language and images of remorseless disclosure, appropriate to...

This is a collection of original essays about how Shakespeare and how his plays are increasingly being used as a means of furthering literacy, lang...

Focusing on a period (c.1577-1594) that is often neglected in Elizabethan theater histories, this study considers Shakespeare's involvement with th...

The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances support...

Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the mid-first ce...

This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of ‘perfor...

The systematic practice of non-traditional or "colorblind" casting began with Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival in the 1950s. Although co...

Shakespeare and American Life celebrates the extraordinary English poet’s influence on American culture – whether high, low, or middlebrow – to mar...

"A close reading of the plays that tries to map the creases and folds in Shakespeare's mysterious, elusive brain."— New York Times Book Review A. D...

In Theater of the Word: Selfhood in the English Morality Play, Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge f...

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary response...

Curating material from Applause's Shakescenes: Shakespeare for Two, Once More unto the Speech, Dear Friends, The Applause Shakespeare Library, and ...

The Self-Centred Art is a study of the plays of Ben Jonson and the actors who first performed in them. Jakub Boguszak shows how the idiosyncrasies ...

Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats’s work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils shows how readi...

Thought modern readers no longer believe in the four humors of Galenic naturalism - blood, choler, melancholy, and phlegm - early modern thought fo...

This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance.Around 1500 an abs...

Expectation is an integral part of the reading experience. As we read a text, we begin to classify it and compare it to others with which it seems ...

Teaching creative writing for the multicultural, global, and digital generation, this volume offers a fresh approach for enhancing core writing ski...

"Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don't: The exhilaration of the act." The New YorkerUnder the watchful g...

Rousseau’s opposition to the theater is well known: Far from purging the passions, it serves only to exacerbate them, and to render them hypocritic...

This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and reception of some of Noël Co...