Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This is the first study to comprehensively analyse Laurence Olivier''s Shakespearean films alongside his unique Shakespearean star image.

This book re-examines early modern musical culture to suggest how music shapes meaning in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

The third New Cambridge edition of Shakespeare''s Twelfth Night, updated by Penny Gay for the contemporary student reader.

This book re-examines early modern musical culture to suggest how music shapes meaning in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

The third edition of The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare''s most popular yet controversial plays.

This new edition features an updated introduction analysing recent critical and performance interpretations, and a revised reading list.

This third edition of Shakespeare''s Julius Caesar, features a new Introduction by Jeremy Lopez.

A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare''s works, from a team of eminent international scholars.

An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare''s Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.

An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare''s Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.

A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare''s works, from a team of eminent international scholars.

This is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy.

This book analyses the ways contemporary fiction writers draw on Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy.

Andrew Gurr''s work offers the best access to the original Shakespearean theatre.

This book argues that through dramatizations of ''popularity'' - the attempt to win public opinion - Shakespeare''s theatre fostered a critical public.

This book argues that through dramatizations of ''popularity'' - the attempt to win public opinion - Shakespeare''s theatre fostered a critical public.

Andrew Gurr''s work offers the best access to the original Shakespearean theatre.

The first book to map Samuel Beckett''s material imagination, presenting a fresh understanding of his fiction, drama, poetry and film.

The first book to map Samuel Beckett''s material imagination, presenting a fresh understanding of his fiction, drama, poetry and film.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 69 is ''Shakespeare and Rome''.

This book analyses how country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted identities.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 69 is ''Shakespeare and Rome''.

This book analyses how country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted identities.

An international team of scholars covers every aspect of one of the most famous books in the English language.

An international team of scholars covers every aspect of one of the most famous books in the English language.

A comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue, drawing on the data from Roman comedy and drama.

A comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue, drawing on the data from Roman comedy and drama.

The second edition of Troilus and Cressida featuring a revised and updated Introduction and new illustrations.

William Storm delivers a wide-ranging investigation of character in drama from ancient beginnings to the present day.

This original and innovative study offers the reader an inventive analysis of Shakespeare in performance.

William Storm delivers a wide-ranging investigation of character in drama from ancient beginnings to the present day.

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Explores the significant presence of Shakespeare in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

Explores the significant presence of Shakespeare in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.

In this book, Franssen investigates the use of Shakespeare as a fictional character in different literary genres, periods and cultures.

In this book, Franssen investigates the use of Shakespeare as a fictional character in different literary genres, periods and cultures.

This book explores early modern ideas of chastity and their cultural, political, medical, moral and theological applications.

This book explores collaboration, theatre practice, and Shakespeare''s canon by analysing the evidence of manuscripts used in early modern playhouses.

This book explores early modern ideas of chastity and their cultural, political, medical, moral and theological applications.

This book explores collaboration, theatre practice, and Shakespeare''s canon by analysing the evidence of manuscripts used in early modern playhouses.

This collection historicises the life and works of George Bernard Shaw through the lens of forty-two popular subjects of study.

This collection historicises the life and works of George Bernard Shaw through the lens of forty-two popular subjects of study.

This book sheds new light on the dramatic devices Shakespeare developed for turning history into theatre in his history plays.

This book examines how Jacobean authors interpreted and responded to the works of King James VI and I.

This book examines how Jacobean authors interpreted and responded to the works of King James VI and I.

This book re-evaluates the relationship between Renaissance dramatists and literary posterity by examining their work in relation to post-Reformation ideas about memorialization.

This book re-evaluates the relationship between Renaissance dramatists and literary posterity by examining their work in relation to post-Reformation ideas about memorialization.

This book sheds new light on the dramatic devices Shakespeare developed for turning history into theatre in his history plays.

This book argues that the destruction of Jerusalem is a key explanatory trope for early modern texts.