Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

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 ...

Unbinding Medea signals the very different answers to medea to provoke debate that transcends individual and discipline-specific approaches to the ...

In this volume, the author argues that blood was, crucially, a means by which dramatists negotiated shifting contours of domesticity in 16th and 17...

Shepard argues that the Marlowe plays wrestle with the philosophical assumptions about the nature of war and the role and status of soldiers in Eng...

Taking its cue from Baudelaires important essay The Painter of Modern Life, in which Baudelaire imagines the modern artist as a man of the world, t...

Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones. Though not necessarily common knowledge, Henry Fielding started his literary ...

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim tha...

Published in 1993: The first modern scholarly edition of the author's play, not published until 1778. Sebastian reclaims his betrothed from Antonio...

New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms...

Although it was probably conceived as a trilogy, only the first two parts of Thomas Deloney's prose romance were completed, dealing with the origin...

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 ...

Published in 1987: The author translated the Ignoramous which is a Latin play into English.

Critical investigation into the rubric of 'Shakespeare and the visual arts' has generally focused on the influence exerted by the works of Shakespe...

Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wildes public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing. Thro...

Originally published in 1987, An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example, offers a critical examination of James Shirley's 163...

This collection reconsiders Miltons engagement with Greek texts, with particular attention to the theological and theatrical meanings attached to G...

This collection of original essays honors the groundbreaking scholarship of Jean E. Howard by exploring cultural and economic constructions of affe...

Published in 1985: The main plot portrays the bachelor Octavio, Marquis of Siena, and his establishment of his Bower of Fancies, something like a P...