Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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

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

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

Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.

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

Up-to-date edition of one of Euripides'' most appealing plays, exploring language, style, meter, dramatic technique, myth, religion, politics, and society.

Recounts and reflects on Shakespeare''s Globe''s experiment with original pronunciation.

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

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

The first volume to consider how the context of early modern biblical interpretation shaped Shakespeare''s plays.

A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable.

Demonstrates how Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of Stoicism as performance, rather than intellectual doctrine.

Provides an historical overview of women''s mythmaking and thus their contributions to, and an alternative genealogy of, modern Irish theatre.

Demonstrates how Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of Stoicism as performance, rather than intellectual doctrine.

Provides an historical overview of women''s mythmaking and thus their contributions to, and an alternative genealogy of, modern Irish theatre.

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

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable.

Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.

Features a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends, performance and adaptation practices.

Reveals how England''s eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Reveals how England''s eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Argues that the songs of Pindar and Aeschylus share a "theatrical" spirit that illuminates choral performance in Classical Greece.

Detailed study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage.

Outlining a classical ''rhetorical'' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.

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

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

Argues that the songs of Pindar and Aeschylus share a "theatrical" spirit that illuminates choral performance in Classical Greece.

Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.

Shakespeare is both the world''s most quoted author and a frequent quoter himself.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Complete Plays"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Outlining a classical ''rhetorical'' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.

This second volume of the works of Anne Finch presents previously unpublished poems and letters alongside works in Finch''s authorised print volume.

Establishing the text of works in Anne Finch''s early manuscript book, this first volume includes previously unpublished poetry and surviving plays.

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides?

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

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

Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.

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

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.