Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book AwardThe first comprehensive study of Shakespeares storms. Whether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear o...

The first collection of its kind, Chartist Drama makes available four plays written or performed by members of the Chartist movement of the 1840s. ...

Whether the fault of tedious teachers or hammy actors, Shakespeare is often seen as dry and impenetrable. In this fast-paced introduction, Ros King...

In the final decade of the eighteenth century, theatre was amongst the most important sites for redefining France's national identity. In this stud...

Only a few plays by Sophocles - one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens - have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from ...

WINNER of the 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award Volume of new essays investigating Kleist's influences and sources both literary and ph...

The book presents a systematic method of interpreting Shakespeare film adaptations based on their cinematic genres. Its approach is both scholarly ...

If, advised essayist and critic William Hazlitt, we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. For if anyone profoundly und...

The ludic element of drama in the Middle Ages - or drama with early subject matter - is here to the fore. Medieval English Theatre is the premier ...

'To die will be an awfully big adventure.' Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, is one of the immortals of children's literature. J. M. Barr...