Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This book compares the theatrical cultures of early modern England and Spain and explores the causes and consequences not just of the remarkable similarities but also of the visible differences between them.

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson's dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists.

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson's dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists.

Plays of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an eclectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing writers.

Plays of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an eclectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing writers.

Contemporary Australian Playwriting provides a thorough and accessible overview of the diverse and exciting new directions that Australian Playwriting is taking in the twenty-first century.

Contemporary Australian Playwriting provides a thorough and accessible overview of the diverse and exciting new directions that Australian Playwriting is taking in the twenty-first century.

This book charts the impact of Shakespeare's works on Harold Pinter's career as a playwright.

This book charts the impact of Shakespeare's works on Harold Pinter's career as a playwright.

Seeing Shakespeare's Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally.

Seeing Shakespeare's Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally.

Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico Garcia Lorca's trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience.

Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico Garcia Lorca's trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience.

This book features a collection of essays and testimonials that provide new perspectives and incisive criticism on the writings and theatrical productions of Nigerian American author, director, and theorist Femi Euba.

This book provides a fascinating and concise history of devised theatre practice.

This book provides a fascinating and concise history of devised theatre practice.

First published in 1971, Poison, Play and Duel explores the dominant symbols of the language and action of Hamlet.

First published in 1971, Poison, Play and Duel explores the dominant symbols of the language and action of Hamlet.

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds.

This book interrogates anew the phenomenon of tradition in a dialogical debate with a host of Western thinkers and critical minds.

Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the complex aesthetic process of "e;picturing"e; in early modern English literature.

Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the complex aesthetic process of "e;picturing"e; in early modern English literature.

A World Elsewhere is Steven Berkoff's bold attempt to describe his multifarious theatrical works.

A World Elsewhere is Steven Berkoff's bold attempt to describe his multifarious theatrical works.

In Collaborative Playwriting, five collectively written plays apply polyvocal methods in which clash and frisson replace synthesis, a dialogic approach to collective writing that has never before been articulated or documented.

In Collaborative Playwriting, five collectively written plays apply polyvocal methods in which clash and frisson replace synthesis, a dialogic approach to collective writing that has never before been articulated or documented.

The Ocean of Mirth brings together an English translation and an analytical interpretation of a singularly crucial, but obscure, Sanskrit medieval text, the Hasyarnava-Prahasanam of Jagadesvara Bhattacharya.

The Ocean of Mirth brings together an English translation and an analytical interpretation of a singularly crucial, but obscure, Sanskrit medieval text, the Hasyarnava-Prahasanam of Jagadesvara Bhattacharya.

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.

This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience.

This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent.

This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent.

This book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the colonised.

This book investigates the translation field as a hybrid space for the competing claims between the colonisers and the colonised.

The Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter?

The Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter?

First published in 1991, Peter Brook and the Mahabharata is a collection of essays which contextualizes the production of Peter Brook's The Mahabharata.

First published in 1991, Peter Brook and the Mahabharata is a collection of essays which contextualizes the production of Peter Brook's The Mahabharata.

First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslin's earlier writings on Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht.

First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslin's earlier writings on Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht.

First published in 1977, the third edition of Pinter is an excellent analysis of Harold Pinter and his works.

First published in 1977, the third edition of Pinter is an excellent analysis of Harold Pinter and his works.

The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is, arguably, a problem of the present-day world.

Fifty Key Irish Plays charts the progression of modern Irish drama from Dion Boucicault's entry on to the global stage of the Irish diaspora to the contemporary dramas created by the experiences of the New Irish.

Fifty Key Irish Plays charts the progression of modern Irish drama from Dion Boucicault's entry on to the global stage of the Irish diaspora to the contemporary dramas created by the experiences of the New Irish.

This book offers an accessible introduction to England's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses.

This book offers an accessible introduction to England's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses.

The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is, arguably, a problem of the present-day world.

This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature.

This volume provides an accessible and engaging guide to the study of American dramatic literature.