Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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

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

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

This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare.

This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare.

This volume offers new insight into the contextual background and literary-historical impact of Norman Mailer''s body of work.

A systematic, chronological discussion of Samuel Beckett''s interest in the works and person of Marquis de Sade.

This book explores how Ovid, as the poet-philosopher of the liberty of speech, galvanized poetic innovation in English Renaissance poetry.

This book explores how Ovid, as the poet-philosopher of the liberty of speech, galvanized poetic innovation in English Renaissance poetry.

A reassessment of Beckett''s alleged Cartesianism using the theoretical framework of extended cognition.

This volume offers new insight into the contextual background and literary-historical impact of Norman Mailer''s body of work.

Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett''s prose, drama and poetry.

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett''s prose, drama and poetry.

A short history of Shakespeare in performance, from the Restoration to the present day.

This Element focuses on the casting in productions of Shakespeare from 2017–2020.

Marathons through Shakespeare''s history plays are feats of endurance for the repertory companies performing them and the audiences attending them.

Marathons through Shakespeare''s history plays are feats of endurance for the repertory companies performing them and the audiences attending them.

A fascinating insight into court entertainment - encompassing dance, music and performance - in the age of Shakespeare.

This is the fourth and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the complete works of John Webster.

The first of its kind, this volume offers the most ambitious and wide-ranging English-language history of Polish theatre to date.

Engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century that explores how audiences responded emotionally to the performances.

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

A fascinating insight into court entertainment - encompassing dance, music and performance - in the age of Shakespeare.

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

Engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century that explores how audiences responded emotionally to the performances.

The first of its kind, this volume offers the most ambitious and wide-ranging English-language history of Polish theatre to date.

Explores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.

Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries focuses on the broad movements of national revivalism that took place around the turn of the century as Finland and Norway, and later Iceland, were gaining their independence.

Illuminates the ways Shakespeare''s works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about war in all its complexity.

An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides?

Explores the influence of the Faust legend on drama and film from the sixteenth century to the contemporary era.

Showcases cutting-edge research into this most famous tradition of European theatre, presented in English for the first time.

Offers a new introduction and commentary notes designed for the student reader, an updated reading list, appendices and extensive illustrations.

Argues that the Exclusion Crisis of 1678–82 should be considered the watershed moment in Shakespeare''s authorial afterlife.

This book demonstrates how the book trade of 1640–1740 canonised Shakespeare by selling, editing and promoting his plays and poems.

The definitive text on the social, intellectual and theatrical conditions within which Molière operated and his subsequent impact worldwide.

Illuminates the pleasures and challenges of Shakespeare''s complex language for today''s students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers.

Examining theatrical bodies, the spaces inhabited by actors and audiences, and the texts that circulate around and between them.

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of ''true'' Englishness in his early plays.

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare''s Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht''s significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century.

The first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett''s prose and theatre.

First dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare''s texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced.

Uncovers the importance of popular literature in promoting and shaping medieval nostalgia in early modern England.

Examines Christopher Marlowe and his work in the overlapping contexts of the professional theatre and the book trade.

Linking ecstasy with art and liberty, the book advances understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the humanities today.

Challenges canonical accounts with writings and critical perspectives that emphasize the social complexity and cultural multiplicity of Caribbean writings.