Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Investigates selected Beckett works presenting worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation.

Argues that diverse representations of the afterlife in the Oresteia require reevaluation of its fundamental ethical and political dilemmas.

How has Covid-19 changed modes of watching Shakespeare?

Brings the history of Shakespeare publishing vividly to life, from the earliest print editions to the latest digital texts.

How has Covid-19 changed modes of watching Shakespeare?

Matthew Williamson''s book argues that the representation of hunger and appetite was central to political debate in early modern drama.

Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.

Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.

This collection affirms the shaping authority of early modern women in literature and culture, evident well beyond their own moment.

Cutting-edge theories of cognition inform readings of Shakespearean girls to show the dynamism of adolescent female brainwork.

Featuring cutting-edge essays by leading scholars, this collection formulates a new feminist theory of eighteenth-century women''s satire.

Robert Lepage''s work is situated within the political and social context of Quebec and Canada in the 1980s.

Cutting-edge theories of cognition inform readings of Shakespearean girls to show the dynamism of adolescent female brainwork.

Featuring cutting-edge essays by leading scholars, this collection formulates a new feminist theory of eighteenth-century women''s satire.

Robert Lepage''s work is situated within the political and social context of Quebec and Canada in the 1980s.

Brings the history of Shakespeare publishing vividly to life, from the earliest print editions to the latest digital texts.

Matthew Williamson''s book argues that the representation of hunger and appetite was central to political debate in early modern drama.

Explores Shakespeare''s plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

This Element addresses the topical debate on blackface, race and Othello.

Explores the construction of Jonson''s multifaceted reputation and shifting legacy from his own time to the present.

Garrett Sullivan offers a new approach to cinematic adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare at a watershed moment in British history.

The theme for Volume 73 is ''Shakespeare and the City''.

Andrew Hiscock locates Shakespeare''s history plays within debates over the status and function of violence in a nation''s culture.

Andrew Hiscock locates Shakespeare''s history plays within debates over the status and function of violence in a nation''s culture.

An original study of the ways in which temporal concepts and gendered identities intersect in early modern theatre and culture.

This multidisciplinary study of Japan''s storytelling tradition of Kamigata rakugo comes with five stories translated.

This collection affirms the shaping authority of early modern women in literature and culture, evident well beyond their own moment.

Explores the construction of Jonson''s multifaceted reputation and shifting legacy from his own time to the present.

Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

Explores Shakespeare''s plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

This Element addresses the topical debate on blackface, race and Othello.

The theme for Volume 73 is ''Shakespeare and the City''.

Garrett Sullivan offers a new approach to cinematic adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare at a watershed moment in British history.

This edition includes fully annotated texts of all works known or plausibly believed to be by Aphra Behn (1640-1689).

The first in-depth study of the all-boy company, Edward''s Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The first in-depth study of the all-boy company, Edward''s Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon.

This book explores thought experiments in Shakespeare and shows how experimental psychology can be found in early modern English literature.

This book explores thought experiments in Shakespeare and shows how experimental psychology can be found in early modern English literature.

Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.

Explores the fascinating career of Maurice E.

The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

Explores the fascinating career of Maurice E.

Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.

How and why did Victorian culture make Shakespeare into a literary deity and his work into a secular Bible?

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

Re-appraises Shakespeare''s early career, situating his writings and activities in their time, place, and cultural moment.

Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.