Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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.

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.

Munro explores the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton.

The first history of the Queen''s Servants, parallel players to Shakespeare''s company, and their playhouse, The Red Bull.

Paul Prescott presents an engaging account of the ways in which theatre critics have responded to Shakespeare over four centuries.

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

Munro explores the conscious use of archaic language by poets and dramatists including Shakespeare, Spenser, Jonson and Milton.

The first history of the Queen''s Servants, parallel players to Shakespeare''s company, and their playhouse, The Red Bull.

Paul Prescott presents an engaging account of the ways in which theatre critics have responded to Shakespeare over four centuries.

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

Worrall presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into eighteenth-century British theatre and performance history.

What does it mean to perform Shakespeare in languages other than English and how do audiences respond?

Focusing on key texts, leading scholars explore how Hollywood has given an enduring life to the classics of Broadway theater.

Worrall presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into eighteenth-century British theatre and performance history.

What does it mean to perform Shakespeare in languages other than English and how do audiences respond?

Focusing on key texts, leading scholars explore how Hollywood has given an enduring life to the classics of Broadway theater.

David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare''s language, making his plays easily accessible to modern-day audiences.

A new interpretation of Sophocles'' Antigone, exploring the intertwined history of law, politics, gender and humanism.

This second edition of Erne''s groundbreaking study includes a new preface that reviews the controversy the book has triggered.

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare?

This study establishes the remarkable presence of Shakespeare''s plays and poems in the early modern English book trade.

A new interpretation of Sophocles'' Antigone, exploring the intertwined history of law, politics, gender and humanism.

This second edition of Erne''s groundbreaking study includes a new preface that reviews the controversy the book has triggered.

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare?

This study establishes the remarkable presence of Shakespeare''s plays and poems in the early modern English book trade.

Euripides'' Medea comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production.

A complete study of the history and tradition of illustrated editions of Shakespeare, containing 167 illustrative images from major editions.

Euripides'' Medea comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for both academic study and stage production.

A complete study of the history and tradition of illustrated editions of Shakespeare, containing 167 illustrative images from major editions.

This book gives readers the opportunity to appreciate Shakespeare from the perspectives of the late-medieval European traditions that surrounded him.

David Crystal provides a lively and original introduction to Shakespeare''s language, making his plays easily accessible to modern-day audiences.

Shakespearean Sensations explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature affecting audiences'' bodies, minds and emotions.

This book gives readers the opportunity to appreciate Shakespeare from the perspectives of the late-medieval European traditions that surrounded him.

Shakespearean Sensations explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature affecting audiences'' bodies, minds and emotions.

Bruce Boehrer''s book is the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus primarily on ecological issues.

Bruce Boehrer''s book is the first general history of the Shakespearean stage to focus primarily on ecological issues.

Mary Floyd-Wilson''s groundbreaking study explores occult beliefs and their relation to women and scientific knowledge in six early modern plays.

Mary Floyd-Wilson''s groundbreaking study explores occult beliefs and their relation to women and scientific knowledge in six early modern plays.

For this second edition David Lindley has revised his introduction and added a new section.

For this second edition David Lindley has revised his introduction and added a new section.

The most up-to-date contextual guide to Christopher Marlowe''s world and the full range of his poetry and drama.

Pascale Aebischer provides the only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen, expanding the scope of Shakespearean performance studies.

Pascale Aebischer provides the only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen, expanding the scope of Shakespearean performance studies.

The most up-to-date contextual guide to Christopher Marlowe''s world and the full range of his poetry and drama.