Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Participants in the current debate about the literary canon generally separate the established literary order--of which Shakespeare is the most vis...

Contemporary playwright David Mamet's thought-provoking plays and screenplays such as Wag the Dog, Glengarry Glen Ross (for which he won the Pulitz...

"Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our cultu...

The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the material culture of sixt...

The Routledge Companion to Adaptation offers a broad range of scholarship from this growing, interdisciplinary field. With a basis in source-orient...

This title offers an introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays, written in an accessible, jar...

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentr...

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 ...

This book is about interjections and their transcultural issues. Challenging the marginalization of the past, the ubiquity of interjections and tra...

This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, while its lively introduction explains why Webster’s inte...

Gregory S. Brown's A Field of Honor: The Identities of Writers, Court Culture and Public Theater in the French Intellectual Field from Racine to th...

"A splendid edition: it incorporates the most recent modern scholarship ... and it does so within a compass and format that is both readable and us...

Shakespeare and Superman? Shakespeare and The Twilight Zone? Shakespeare and romance novels? What is Shakespeare doing in modern popular culture? I...

Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a pr...

This book posits that Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy draws inspiration from the Italian “politic histories” of the early modern period. These works ...

Stratford made the man, but London made the phenomenon that is Shakespeare. This volume takes an historical approach to Shakespeare's connections w...

This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes is a text of continuing relev...

This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about what should be counted as sources in Shakespeare...

William Shakespeare wrote during a great age of exploration, not only of England but around the globe. The locales featured in the playwright’s wor...

First Published in 1996. Contemporary Theatre Studies is a book series of special interest to everyone involved in theatre. It consists of monograp...

Stratford made the man, but London made the phenomenon that is Shakespeare. This volume takes an historical approach to Shakespeare's connections w...

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds.In contrast to th...

Publishing its nineteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that...

Do you want to know why Beckett has become a figure of such continuing influence and importance in the theatre? Are you studying his plays and look...