Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Philosophers speak of newly accessed ways of knowing reality as epistemological shifts. This book demonstrates how Shakespeare effected a massive s...

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

The first in-depth exploration of Shakespeare's representations of climate and the skyWhile ecocritical approaches to literary texts receive more a...

Places the performative gesture at the point of intersection between literature, theatre and cinemaThis new study examines the representation of ge...

Argues that the Essais of Montaigne were a crucial factor in the composition of later Shakespearean dramaAnew way of accounting for the different s...

In the 1590s, Shakespeare was working with and writing for the Lord Chamberlain's Men at The Theatre, Shoreditch while he was living in the parish ...

Analyses the expansion of head and body masking from nineteenth-century Paris to its international maturity in contemporary cultureLooks at the pre...

Samuel Beckett and Translation explores the idea that at the core of Beckett's work there is no fixed centre but a constant movement between varian...

Examines the intersection of Samuel Beckett's thirty-second playlet Breath with the visual artsSamuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwright...

This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in per...

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel   The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authorit...

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entert...

This title was first published in 2000. This book offers a wide-ranging account of tragic drama from the Greeks to Arthur Miller. It puts forward a...

Renaissance Literature and Linguistic Creativity interrogates notions of linguistic creativity as presented in English literary texts of the late s...

Adapting Western Classics for the Chinese Stage presents a comprehensive study of transnational, transcultural, and translingual adaptations of Wes...

Arguably the first play in a Shakespearean tetralogy, Richard II is a unique and compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. It i...

Originally published in 1979, this volume includes the full text of James Marston's The Wonder of Women, alongside critical and textual notes. Prev...

The authors of this book ask how digital research tools are changing the ways in which practicing editors historicize Shakespeare's language. Schol...

How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics ...

Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romantici...

Published in 1987: This thesis presents an edition of the authors play, Monsieur Thomas, with a substantial introduction in several sections and a ...

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It ...