Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Reveals the contribution of Irish writers to the Georgian English stage; argues that theatre is an important strand of the Irish Enlightenment.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

Reveals the contribution of Irish writers to the Georgian English stage; argues that theatre is an important strand of the Irish Enlightenment.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

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

The third New Cambridge edition of Shakespeare''s Othello, updated by Christina Luckyj for the contemporary student reader.

Examination of literacy and reading habits in nineteenth-century Ireland and implications for an emerging cultural nationalism.

Features an updated introduction analysing recent critical and performance interpretations, and a revised reading list.

This book outlines Beckett''s passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.

This book outlines Beckett''s passion for the visual arts as he developed his signature style between the 1930s and 1970s.

A study of remembrance in post-Reformation England in religious and secular artworks and texts by Shakespeare, Milton, and women writers.

A discussion of the connections between believing in Shakespeare''s play and a post-Reformation understanding of salvation.

Ibsen in Context provides an unparalleled wealth of material on Ibsen''s life, career, works and afterlives.

Ibsen in Context provides an unparalleled wealth of material on Ibsen''s life, career, works and afterlives.

Provides a novel account of how Shakespeare constructs his great tragic characters.

This book demonstrates the pervading influence of visual art in the composition, production and reception of Renaissance English drama.

This book covers all of Albee''s original plays, spanning his entire career and containing unparalleled insights from personal interviews with the playwright.

Anne Barton''s final book uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power.

This book demonstrates the pervading influence of visual art in the composition, production and reception of Renaissance English drama.

This book covers all of Albee''s original plays, spanning his entire career and containing unparalleled insights from personal interviews with the playwright.

Anne Barton''s final book uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power.

Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.

Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.

Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Tom Stoppard in Context illuminates the cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts of one of the most important modern playwrights.

Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Tom Stoppard in Context illuminates the cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts of one of the most important modern playwrights.

Introduces nine exciting and talented playwrights who have emerged in twenty-first century America, exploring issues of race, gender and society.

Introduces nine exciting and talented playwrights who have emerged in twenty-first century America, exploring issues of race, gender and society.

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

Explores fundamental questions of human will and action in early modern theology and literature.

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

Beckett''s Political Imagination uncovers Beckett''s lifelong engagement with political thought and political history.

Beckett''s Political Imagination uncovers Beckett''s lifelong engagement with political thought and political history.

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The first comprehensive study of how Shakespeare designed his plays to suit his playing company.

Shakespeare for Freedom shows why Shakespeare has mattered for four hundred years, and why he still matters today.

This volume provides up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions of Shakespeare''s plays, as well as critical reviews of older canonical films.

Shakespeare for Freedom shows why Shakespeare has mattered for four hundred years, and why he still matters today.

This volume provides up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions of Shakespeare''s plays, as well as critical reviews of older canonical films.

Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.

Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.

This book studies the varied political uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic rhetoric in a wide range of seventeenth-century English drama.

This book studies the varied political uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic rhetoric in a wide range of seventeenth-century English drama.

This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

This book examines the two-way influence between Shakespeare and his company''s main competitors in the 1590s, the Admiral''s Men.

The first history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of Modern Greece, marked by significant discontinuities.

This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

This book examines the two-way influence between Shakespeare and his company''s main competitors in the 1590s, the Admiral''s Men.