Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that the cover-up unites them and br...

Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers. A burger was thrown at Travis Alabanza on Waterloo Bridge in 2016. From this experience they have cr...

A work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder's Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vintage slice of early 20th Cen...

Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a suspenseful drama set on the Black...

Studies the capacity of Shakespeare's plays to touch and think about touch Based on plays from all major genres: Hamlet, The Tempest, Richard III,...

Grenfell: System Failure asks further vital questions raised by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry since the critically acclaimed 2021 play Grenfell: Value...

No Man or Woman should have to suffer oppression Luther. Its your Birthright to be free, my Love. KING tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork ...

A collection of 154 sonnets reflecting on love, death, marriage and economic theory, each taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's 154.  These poe...

In our culture, Shakespeare's works are classics and his characters have achieved mythical status. But what did William Shakespeare consider to be ...

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) is Spain's most famous author primarily because of his celebrated novel ÊDon QuixoteÊ. His first love however wa...