Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Along with Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya is credited as one of Chekhov's masterpieces and a significant precursor of modern drama.

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity.

Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind?

Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters in Backstory 5, focusing on the 1990s.

This original and innovative book proposes 'dismemory' as a new form of intertextual engagement with Shakespeare by modern and contemporary Irish writers.

Through detailed discussion of plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe, Poole explores the supernatural in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.

Alienation (Vefremdung) is a concept inextricably linked with the name of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht - with modernism, the avant-garde and Marxist theory.

'Rabindranath Tagore's Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre' maps Tagore's place in the Indian dramatic/performance traditions by examining unexplored critical perspectives on his drama such as his texts as performance texts; their exploration in multimedia; reflections of Indian culture in his plays; comparison with playwrights; theatrical links to his world of music and performance genres; his plays in the context of cross-cultural, intercultural theatre; the playwright as a poet-performer-composer and their interconnections and his drama on the Indian stage.

The life of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was tormented by physical and mental illnesses.

'The Woods are just Trees.

Even before Harold Bloom designated Blood Meridian as the Great American Novel, Cormac McCarthy had attracted unprecedented attention as a novelist who is both serious and successful, a rare combination in recent American fiction.

Le présent volume examine le processus de transfert et les modalités de réception en Allemagne de l’Ouest du théâtre français « de l’absurde », à travers les œuvres de ses principaux représentants : Arthur Adamov, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet et Eugène Ionesco.

This volume explores the relationship between the emphasis on performance in Elizabethan humanist education and the flourishing of literary brilliance around the turn of the sixteenth century.

Erik Gunderson reads Seneca''s philosophy and tragedy together, exploring the possibility of enlightenment and the human capacity for wisdom and knowledge.

I have a boy.

Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights a mixture of established and current writers National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.

This book offers a collection of essays on Shakespeare''s life and works in popular forms and media.

Ten new short plays by African women tackling taboo topics on identity, gender, sexualities, family relations and power.

Shakespearean Sensations explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature affecting audiences'' bodies, minds and emotions.

Quel est encore le rôle des acteurs vis-à-vis de leur métier, dans une société en quête de sens où l’art dramatique représenterait presque une sorte d’énigme contemporaine : à la fois art vivant et institution en crise ?

Iphigenia in Splott is a one-woman play, first seen in 2015, loosely adapted from the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis.

A vivid snapshot of America's kaleidoscopic literary tradition, A Journey Through American Literature illuminates the authors, works, and events that have shaped our cultural heritage.

The crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity.

Performed as a one-woman show, Victim follows the power struggle between prison guard Tracey and criminal Siobhan as they come face-to-face with a notorious inmate.

Racine the practising dramatist had been in some danger of being crowded out from the numerous books on his psychology and style.

Racine the practising dramatist had been in some danger of being crowded out from the numerous books on his psychology and style.

You know what would really fuck them off?

This innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to re-appraise the remarkable skills of early modern boy actors.

This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

We should all have been taught more of life and less good mannersIt is three years since Agnes, an artist, left her unfaithful husband Henry.

A second edition of Measure for Measure, featuring a new introductory section by Angela Stock.

The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science by analyzing how eighteenth-century science was "e;staged"e; in a double sense.

In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare's plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Melies and what to the Lumiere brothers.

An introductory critical study for first year undergraduates which bridges the gap between A Level and university study.

Trifles--a play exploring what happens when women unite against forces that deny them a voice and identity--has become an international classic, as powerful and relevant today as it was in the summer of 1916, when it was first staged by vacationing friends in a converted fishing wharf in Provincetown,Massachusetts.

Showing how overlooked publication agents constructed and read early modern history plays, this book fundamentally re-evaluates the genre.

The Problem Plays-Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure-form a group distinguished by such common factors as a preoccupation with religious dogma and the problem of evil; an interest in human nature as it is, rather than with its latent capacities; and a strong contrast between the outlook of youth and age.

Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and emerging writers - this National Theatre Connections anthology is published to coincide with the 2015 festival, which takes place across the UK and Ireland, finishing up at the National Theatre in London.

The Spanish Tragedy was the first 'revenge tragedy' on the English Renaissance stage: but for its influence, major dramas including The Revenger's Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi and even Hamlet would not exist as they do.

A selectively comprehensive bibliography of the vast literature about Samuel Beckett's dramatic works, arranged for the efficient and convenient use of scholars on all levels.

This book traces the entrance of Western stage drama into China and the initial reception it received from Chinese intellectuals.

Shakespeare was born into a new age of will, in which individual intent had the potential to overcome dynastic expectation.

Do algorithms and machine learning set us free, or trap us forever?

The definitive biography of the playwright who become a president: Vaclav Havel, the final president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the new Czech RepublicVaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy.

This is an examination of how early modern poets attempt to capture the experience of being in the grip of conscience.

Most students encounter drama as they do poetry and fiction as literature to be read but never experience the performative nature of theater.

A fun, silly and sad show for anyone whose brain isn't always on their side.

Multi-award-winning Scottish playwright Kieran Hurley has been making waves since the early 2010s with his vivid storytelling and searing honesty, creating plays acutely concerned with society and community, and deeply enmeshed in Scotland's local political context.