Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

The Twice-Changd Friar is one of four early seventeenth-century plays preserved in a manuscript miscellany in the library of the Newdigate family o...

What has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be reinterprete...

Oxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key...

The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites Shakespeare's The Tempest through the encounte...

When it comes to really knowing a person, is what you see really what you get? Is it ever all you get? In this first critical study and annotated t...

Nora Ephron famously claimed that she wrote about every thought that ever crossed her mind, from her divorce from Carl Bernstein (Heartburn) to ...

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

Savage Exchange explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty (206 BCE220 CE) at a pivotal moment when China was asserting imperia...

This volume is the sixteenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative drama, performance, and dramat...

This critical edition of the 1131 La Passion Nostre Seigneur offers comprehensive English-language annotation and a glossary as ancillary materials...

Through a formalist, structuralist analysis, Rene Pedro Garay defines the Vicente comedias against their socio-historical backdrop, and the literar...

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

Staging the revolution offers a reappraisal of the weight and volume of theatrical output during the commonwealth and early Restoration, both in te...

This is a close reading of a play by Felix Lope de Vega (1562-1635) - a Spanish playwright, poet, and major figure of Spanish Baroque literature - ...

From the Gay Repertoire is the first guide to consider the total sweep of gay plays published in English, not just those that were produced on Broa...

The first play collection from Anders Lustgarten, perhaps Britain's most visible and visibly engaged political playwright (Time Out London), conta...

Samuel Becketts theatrical works maintain a prominent position within contemporary theatre. His plays provide a prodigious potential to study sever...

The latest volume of the Yale French Studies Series reexamines the vexed relationship between the theater and contemporary conceptions of morality ...

This original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators...