Plays, Playscripts

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed la...

At the turn of the seventeenth century, Hristomir Stanev argues, ideas about the senses became part of a dramatic and literary tradition in England...

Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the rol...

Raphael Holinshed's account of English history from 1377-1485 in the Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland is most well-known as the source ...

The guild buildings of Shakespeares Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of ...

The guild buildings of Shakespeares Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of ...

This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adapt...

Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has be...

Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has be...

Long regarded as a problem play, Measure for Measure has provoked much critical disagreement. Staged during James I's first Christmas at Whitehall,...

In this major reassessment of his subject, Richard Rowland restores Thomas Heywood-playwright, miscellanist and translator-to his rightful place in...

Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on early modern framing texts as a...

The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater, placing Shakespeare and his conte...

Aristophanes' Wasps (422 B.C.) is an entertaining comedy that plunges us into the life of a family in classical Athens, while treating themes that ...

Characters: 8 male, 2 female Acclaimed playwright Matt Pelfrey's adaptation of John Ball's In the Heat of the Night based on the award-winning book...

You're a dead man if they find you.Enigmatic ex-convict Jack Maggs returns from Australia to the murky streets of nineteenth-century London and emb...

Quantum mechanics is one of those topics thats always just there in a like a super Im so clever conversation about the grey areas of science. You k...