Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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.

Robert Greene holds a significant place in our understanding of Elizabethan literature.

Robert Greene holds a significant place in our understanding of Elizabethan literature.

Racine the practising dramatist had been in some danger of being crowded out from the numerous books on his psychology and style.

What is tragedy?

Racine the practising dramatist had been in some danger of being crowded out from the numerous books on his psychology and style.

What is tragedy?

This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps.

This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps.

Shakespeare and Emotional Expression offers an exciting new way of considering emotional transactions in Shakespearean drama.

Shakespeare and Emotional Expression offers an exciting new way of considering emotional transactions in Shakespearean drama.

This book explores how the pregnant body is portrayed, perceived and enacted in Shakespeare's and his contemporaries' drama by means of a phenomenological analysis and a recourse to early modern popular medical discourse on reproduction.

This book explores how the pregnant body is portrayed, perceived and enacted in Shakespeare's and his contemporaries' drama by means of a phenomenological analysis and a recourse to early modern popular medical discourse on reproduction.

Through a close re-examination of Eugene O'Neill's oeuvre, from minor plays to his Pulitzer-winning works, this study proposes that O'Neill's vision of tragedy privileges a particular emotional response over a more "e;rational"e; one among his audience members.