Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

In How and Why We Teach Shakespeare, 19 distinguished college teachers and directors draw from their personal experiences and share their methods a...

Exploring the influence of Shakespeare on drama in Ireland, the author examines works by two representative playwrights: Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) a...

'Hasa Diga Eebowai'In 2011, a musical full of curse words and Mormon missionaries swept that years Tony Awards and was praised as a triumphant retu...

In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an important contribution to the und...

Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical is the first book-length study of a growing performance phenomenon: musical adaptations of Shakespeares plays in whi...

Impressive Shakespeare reassesses Shakespeares relationship with print culture in light of his plays engagement with the language and material cult...

In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeares relationship to the classic in two broad sense...

Tragedy is a genre for exploring loss and suffering, and this book traces the vital areas where tragedy has shaped and been a resource for Christia...

Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays we...

Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx p...

Kate Chopin on pot smoking. Pauline Hopkins on alchemy and the undead. Sui Sin Far on cross-dressing. Emma Lazarus and Angelina Weld Grimke on lesb...

First comparative study to address the rediscovery of baroque aesthetic in modernismDid you know that seventeenth-century philosophy influenced dan...

Four years on from George Floyds murder, this volume asks if and how Shakespeare might be relevantwhether in performance, in the classroom, or in s...

A plane fell out of the sky, and we happened to be on it A man hijacks a plane. The plane begins to fall. Fight or flight. Back on the...

The first comprehensive and fully systematic study of all soliloquies and solo asides in Shakespeare's plays'The Shakespearean Inside' is a study o...

Explores intrinsic connections between early modern intelligencers and metadrama in the plays of Shakespeare's contemporariesIntelligence and Metad...

Overturns orthodox thinking about morality in Shakespeare's plays by updating our understanding of the human mindThis ground-breaking study fearles...

Uncovers the workings of sovereign power in Shakespeare's history plays Presents a sustained, formalist reading of Shakespeare's history playsReads...

This book explores Cormac McCarthy's literature (novels, plays, screenplays, philosophical essays and unpublished archive material) to uncover a di...

Analyses appropriations of King Lear in post-war British dramaProvides the first dedicated study on appropriations of King Lear in British playwrit...

Examines representations of the actress in Victorian novels and theatresThis book analyses how Victorian novels and plays used the actress, a signi...

Examines the influence of classical philosophy on revenge narratives by Shakespeare and his contemporariesThis book discovers within early modern r...