Literary studies: plays and playwrights

In his detailed study of Euripides'' play, Helen, C.

An accessible and engaging introduction to Restoration drama, this book looks at the texts, performances, playhouses and people of seventeenth-century theatre.

An accessible and engaging introduction to Restoration drama, this book looks at the texts, performances, playhouses and people of seventeenth-century theatre.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 66 is ''Working with Shakespeare''.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 65 is ''A Midsummer Night''s Dream''.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 64 is ''Shakespeare as Cultural Catalyst''.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 62 is ''Close Encounters with Shakespeare''s Text''.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 66 is ''Working with Shakespeare''.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 65 is ''A Midsummer Night''s Dream''.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 64 is ''Shakespeare as Cultural Catalyst''.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 62 is ''Close Encounters with Shakespeare''s Text''.

Commentary providing firm grounding in matters of language and text while addressing major literary, dramatic and historical questions.

Commentary providing firm grounding in matters of language and text while addressing major literary, dramatic and historical questions.

Tragedies by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley probe England''s responses to the French Revolution and the poets'' relationships with each other.

Tragedies by Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley probe England''s responses to the French Revolution and the poets'' relationships with each other.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 67 is ''Shakespeare''s Collaborative Work''.

Galey explores the entwined histories of Shakespearean texts and archival technologies over the past four centuries.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 67 is ''Shakespeare''s Collaborative Work''.

Galey explores the entwined histories of Shakespearean texts and archival technologies over the past four centuries.

This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes.

Selection of sixteen provocative and stimulating essays on the complex subject of Shakespeare and politics.

This book offers an interpretation of the handling of costume in the plays of the fifth-century comic poet Aristophanes.

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "e;reigned supreme"e; on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes.

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "e;reigned supreme"e; on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes.

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "e;reigned supreme"e; on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes.

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "e;reigned supreme"e; on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes.

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "e;reigned supreme"e; on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes.

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "e;reigned supreme"e; on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes.

You will see no false nothing false tonight the Hypnotist Tim Crouch's second play collapses a tale of loss and grief into an exploration of theatrical representation, in a piece of theatre that is at once formally innovative and profoundly moving.

You will see no false nothing false tonight the Hypnotist Tim Crouch's second play collapses a tale of loss and grief into an exploration of theatrical representation, in a piece of theatre that is at once formally innovative and profoundly moving.

The period 1890-1940 was a particularly rich and influential phase in the development of modern English theatre: the age of Wilde and Shaw and a generation of influential actors and managers from Irving and Terry to Guilgud and Olivier.

The period 1890-1940 was a particularly rich and influential phase in the development of modern English theatre: the age of Wilde and Shaw and a generation of influential actors and managers from Irving and Terry to Guilgud and Olivier.

First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist - perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment - and an emancipatory act.

First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist - perceiving art as a weapon of struggle and enlightenment - and an emancipatory act.

Shakespearean performances regularly take place at both historic sites and locations with complex resonances, such as Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London and the royal castle of Hamlet - Elsinore - in Denmark.

Shakespearean performances regularly take place at both historic sites and locations with complex resonances, such as Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London and the royal castle of Hamlet - Elsinore - in Denmark.

The influence of the women's movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women's drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage campaign in the years before the First World War.

The influence of the women's movement has long been a scholarly priority in the study of British women's drama of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but previous scholarship has largely clustered around two events: the New Woman in the 1890s and the suffrage campaign in the years before the First World War.

First published in 1970, this book explores drama as literature and provides critical overviews of different aspects of drama and the dramatic.

First published in 1970, this book explores drama as literature and provides critical overviews of different aspects of drama and the dramatic.

First published in 1972, this work pursues the question 'what is comedy?

First published in 1972, this work pursues the question 'what is comedy?

The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom.

The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom.

The book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre.

The book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre.

'It's all real.

'It's all real.

While most critical writing on Jonson concentrates on the plays, poems or masques seen in isolation, this title, first published in 1981, ranges across the genres to explore Jonson's vision as a whole.

While most critical writing on Jonson concentrates on the plays, poems or masques seen in isolation, this title, first published in 1981, ranges across the genres to explore Jonson's vision as a whole.