Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Im thinking this night wasnt I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by. Christy MahonOn the first night of J. M. Synges The Playbo...

I'm thinking this night wasn't I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by.' Christy MahonOn the first night of J. M. Synge's The Pl...

'How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in't!' Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and politic...

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theat...

The Humorous Magistrate is a seventeenth-century satiric comedy extant in two highly distinctive manuscripts. This, the earliest and clearly workin...

This book accounts for the outpouring of celebrations in the Habsburg Empire upon the 1657 birth of Felipe Próspero, heir to Philip IV of Spain. Th...

French Drama of the Revolutionary Years (1990) examines the years following the Revolution which saw an explosion both in the number of theatres an...

Can feelings be wrong? Scientists agree that emotions contain both a cognitive and a physiological component. The cognitive part can be modified, w...

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. This volume examines the sacr...

Know where you are?No. But I know where the train will be.In this tightly-wound noir thriller written by Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller (In Everglade Stu...

All cats are alike in the dark. At the height of the Cold War, disillusioned British spy Alec Leamas is persuaded to stay out in the cold for one ...

This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology--currently the most acti...

Harold Pinter provides an up-to-date analysis and reappraisal concerning the work of one of the most studied and performed dramatists in the world....

This book surveys English love poetry, primarily, though not exclusively, sonnets and sonnet sequences that show the influence of Petrarch, from th...

Lynn Riggs: The Indigenous Plays bundles critically edited texts of three thematically allied plays with an extensive primary, secondary, and textu...

While eighteenth-century playwright and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing made numerous contributions in his lifetime to the theater, the text that b...

Yer a jinx! Ye hae ayeweys buin a jinx. Pat in this earth tae wrack fowks lifes. March, 1924. In a rundown cottage near Crawfordjohn, a wedding d...

So you read, and read, and read, and read, wishing you could just disappear. But some books dont make you disappear. They make you come alive. Lo...

Well, I suppose we have to believe him. He is the author. The authority. CAUTION: CONTAINS TRUTH, LIES AND MISINFORMATION. YOU DECIDE. Rob is p...

In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focusing on Shakespeares rescrip...

Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this canonical playwright, examining the genius of Chekhov's writing, ...

Dick of Devonshire by Thomas Heywood dramatises Englands disastrous 1625 Cadiz expedition through the story of a foot-soldier turned national hero....

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation explores the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of literary genres and new me...

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeares plays, poems and sonnets, edite...

The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...

George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebr...

The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s...

The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s...

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009...

The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009...

Shakespeares four-hundred-year performance history is full of anecdotes ribald, trivial, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and always but lo...

What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, The Phoenix and Turtle? Could the Phoenix represent Queen Elizabeth, on the verge of death as ...

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cult...

Over 50 years after his first appearance on the theatre scene, Edward Bond remains a hugely significant figure in the history of modern British pla...

The story of modern drama is a tale of extremes, testing both audiences and actors to their limits through hostility and contrarianism. Spanning 18...

You can paint your placards til the cows come home, but until you have marched through this town in five inch heels and fishnets, you will never kn...