Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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

Offers a completely new introduction, with a particular emphasis on the play''s afterlife in global performance and adaptation.

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child.

This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child.

This book explores the words, forms, and styles Shakespeare used to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England.

This book explores the words, forms, and styles Shakespeare used to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England.

Shows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements.

Brings ''new formalist'' approaches to Chaucer, focusing on formal agency, bodies, disability, ethics, poetics, reception, and scale.

This book uses computational methods and statistical analysis to challenge traditional assumptions about the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

This book uses computational methods and statistical analysis to challenge traditional assumptions about the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

This book asks what Shakespeare''s contemporary audiences read and how their reading shaped their reception of his work.

This book asks what Shakespeare''s contemporary audiences read and how their reading shaped their reception of his work.

Sarah Dustagheer offers the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the performance conditions of the Globe and the Blackfriars Theatres.

Sarah Dustagheer offers the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the performance conditions of the Globe and the Blackfriars Theatres.

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England examines the emotional effect of stage performance on the minds of the early modern theatre audience.

Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the ever-popular stage clown shaped early modern playhouse theatre.

Healy demonstrates how Renaissance alchemy shaped Shakespeare''s bawdy but spiritual sonnets, transforming our understanding of Shakespeare''s art and beliefs.

A comprehensive survey of Shakespeare''s comedies examining why and how they are still relevant today.

This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information.

Reissued with an essay on Macbeth this is a collection of essays on Shakespeare''s tragedies.

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England examines the emotional effect of stage performance on the minds of the early modern theatre audience.

Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the ever-popular stage clown shaped early modern playhouse theatre.

Healy demonstrates how Renaissance alchemy shaped Shakespeare''s bawdy but spiritual sonnets, transforming our understanding of Shakespeare''s art and beliefs.

Reissued with an essay on Macbeth this is a collection of essays on Shakespeare''s tragedies.

Susan Wiseman analyses mythical and natural creatures in English Renaissance writing, including Shakespeare''s A Midsummer Night''s Dream and The Tempest.

Contesting the notion of Shakespeare as originator, Clare demonstrates how Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.

Morash and Richards present an original approach to understanding how theatre has produced distinctively Irish senses of space and place.

Through short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book provides the first ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama.

A stimulating introduction to the drama of the early modern era, through a focus on commercial playhouses and their repertoires.

First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson''s correspondence with Aaron Hill, Richardson''s closest literary adviser for many years, and his daughters.

Susan Wiseman analyses mythical and natural creatures in English Renaissance writing, including Shakespeare''s A Midsummer Night''s Dream and The Tempest.

Contesting the notion of Shakespeare as originator, Clare demonstrates how Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.

Morash and Richards present an original approach to understanding how theatre has produced distinctively Irish senses of space and place.

Through short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book provides the first ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama.

A stimulating introduction to the drama of the early modern era, through a focus on commercial playhouses and their repertoires.

First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson''s correspondence with Aaron Hill, Richardson''s closest literary adviser for many years, and his daughters.

The first comprehensive study of British and American films adapted from modern British plays.

The first comprehensive study of British and American films adapted from modern British plays.

The first edition for half a century of any play of Menander designed for English-speaking students reading it in Greek.

Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.

A collection of essays on film adaptations of Shakespeare''s plays.

Analyses Vargas Llosa''s career as a writer and as an important cultural and political figure in Latin America and beyond.

This book offers a collection of essays on Shakespeare''s life and works in popular forms and media.

An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare''s comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.

This Companion is devoted to the life and works of Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights in early modern London.

This collection of thirteen original essays covers Williams''s work from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s to his last play before his death in 1983.

The essential 1997 guide to one of the theatre''s most important characters, with an opening essay by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde''s grandson.

This book deals with the historical context of ancient Greek tragic performances, with the plays themselves, and with later adaptation and re-performance, down to modern times.