Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Performing Immanence: Forced Entertainment is a unique probe into the multi-faceted nature of the works of the British experimental theatre Forced Entertainment via the thought of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.

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

First published in French in 1988, and in English in 1992, this companion explores the nature of the literary myth in a collection of over 100 essays, from Abraham to Zoroaster.

Tristana is a novel where love, hate and power converge into a triangle of domination and frustration.

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

What is home?

Today, debates about the cultural role of the humanities and the arts are roiling.

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

Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy.

Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed brings together 154 remixes of William Shakespeare's 1609 sonnet sequence.

He wanted you to be a better man.

Etherege & Wycherley is the first book-length study devoted solely to these two leading comic dramatists of the early Restoration period.

The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted scant critical attention.

This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences.

This second edition features a new section on recent stage, film and critical interpretations.

The domestic play flourished on the English popular stage during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Shakespeare’s Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies – Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus – through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans.

Based on the true story of the murder of Thomas Arden by his wife, her lover and accomplices in 1551, Arden of Faversham is one of the earliest domestic tragedies and a play which has continued to thrill audiences since its first staging.

Illyria in Shakespeare's England is the first extended study of the eastern Adriatic region, often referred to in the Renaissance by its Graeco-Roman name "e;Illyria,"e; in early modern English writing and political thought.

This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds.

New edition, revised for the centenary of Brecht's birth, containing additional updated materialIn this classic study, John Willett sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time.

Presents new scholarship on the innovative playwright Caryl Churchill, discussing her major plays alongside topics including sexual politics and terror.

First published to critical acclaim in 1989, this book is now recognised as one of the most original and influential critical studies of Shakespeare to have appeared in recent times.

This book examines early modern drama's depiction of non-standard forms of masculinity grounded in superficiality, inauthenticity, affectation, and the display of the extravagantly clothed body.

This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors.

One of the blackest comedies ever written, Ben Jonson's Volpone is the masterpiece of a playwright all too frequently dismissed for being unnecessarily dark and academic.

I was born with a bomb in my head.

Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell presents critical introductions to two of the most significant American dramatists of the early twentieth century.

In this lucid and original study, first published in 1972, Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night.

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

This book is a study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare's final Roman play.

The commentary at the centre of this groundbreaking introduction alerts the reader to what happens on stage during a performance by showing what the text requires from actors and the choices they are offered.

While most critical writing on Jonson concentrates on the plays, poems or masques seen in isolation, this title, first published in 1981, ranges across the genres to explore Jonson's vision as a whole.

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.

Kate, Sam and Pete are stuck.

How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original?

This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance.

In this book, leading international Shakespeare scholars consider the significant characteristics of Shakespeare''s last plays and place them in their Jacobean context.

Why does Bassanio compare himself to Jason?

Whether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, the shipwrecks of the comedies or the thunderbolt of Pericles, there is an instance of storm in every one of Shakespeare's plays.

'Hanoch Levin is the modern world on the stage.

Goethes Faust: Its Genesis and Purport offers an exploration of one of the most complex and multifaceted works in literary history.

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICSGeneral Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley WellsOxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship.

When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, N.

With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century.

Satyric Play is the first book to offer an integrated analysis of Greek comedy and satyr drama.

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