Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

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

This is an essential overview of this influential Greek drama, enabling students to confidently read the play in depth and understand its unique cu...

Brings Ben Jonson to the twenty-first century by reading Volpone through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and MarxismThrough studying Volpone's th...

Is gender learned or innate? This controversial play asks the question: what happens if you raise a boy to sew and behave as a girl, and raise his ...

This collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables exploration of ...

The collection solo/black/woman features seven solo performances by emerging and established feminist performance artists from the past three decad...

In Staging Harmony, Katherine Steele Brokaw reveals how the relationship between drama, music, and religious change across Englands long sixteenth ...

Part comedy, part thriller, part social critique, The Granny and the Heist (La estanquera de Vallecas) is the play with which José Luis Alonso de S...

Tragedy, including grief, pain and suffering, is a common theme in Shakespeare's plays, often leading to the death of at least one character, if no...

Shakespeare's Hamlet--written 1,000 years after the classical Greek period--follows a narrative pattern similar to that of the Greek Electra myt...

Emer OSullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature Compelling, informative and fascinating - Stephen Fry The Fall of th...

In early twentieth-century U.S. culture, sex sold. While known mainly for its social reforms, the Progressive Era was also obsessed with prostitut...

The new essays in this collection, on such diverse writers as Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, Maurine Dallas Wat...