Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are...

Michael Hattaway's Introduction to this bestselling edition of As You Like It accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous...

A tender little green shoot of a piece Lyn Gardner 1996. A young mother walks out of a small house in Shepherds Bush and doesnt look back. 2019. ...

Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as th...

What money?! This ends when you end. This experiment is about the survival of the fittest. Nothing more nothing less. Imprisoned in an abandoned ...

I could fly to New York and back every day for seven years and still not leave a carbon footprint as big as if I have a child. Ten thousand tonnes ...

This ground-breaking study analyses Becketts television plays in relation to the history and theory of television. It argues that they are in dialo...

With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas Dekker''s Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern journeying play. Th...

Julius Caesar presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particu...

This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in ...

Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book AwardWhether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, the shipwrec...