Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This book demonstrates that the classics are of central importance in Shakespeare''s plays and in the structure of his imagination.

The story of how and why Shakespeare became a hero of American popular culture.

A comprehensive collection of data on late medieval and Tudor interlude drama.

This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus'' Oresteia, one of the most important of all Greek dramas.

This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer.

This book explores the complex questions about divinity and human values examined in Euripides'' Heracles.

A study of the concepts of memory and forgetting in early modern drama.

This highly praised book, first published in 2005, reveals how political thought critical of the government underpins Shakespeare''s writing.

A study into how service interacted with other forms of dependency in Shakespeare''s drama.

The story behind the production of Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare''s Globe in original, Shakespearian pronunciation, first published in 2005.

A study of the linked themes of violation and identity in seven Shakespearean tragedies.

Examines the language of Terence in the context of Roman comedy as a whole.

A survey of the formal conventions of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Vickers examines authorship claims for two poems, finding neither to be the work of Shakespeare.

A fascinating exploration of one of the most influential American playwrights of the contemporary stage.

A comprehensive 2003 account of the way in which Shakespeare''s texts have been edited and published.

Jeyifo examines the connections between the innovative and influential writings of Wole Soyinka and his radical political activism.

David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare''s sonnets in relation to his plays.

A study of women playwrights from a feminist perspective, first published in 2003.

Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor.

This 2003 book is a critical edition of the only complete Roman drama of an historical subject.

Combines legal, historical and literary approaches to marriage in Shakespeare''s time and in his plays.

Critical analysis of Senecan tragedy with a particular emphasis on his most accomplished play.

This text was the first monograph to examine plays by Black and Asian women in Britain.

An account of one hundred years of English drama 1490–1590.

This book examines emotional responses to socio-economic pressures in early modern English plays and historical texts.

An alternative approach to Shakespeare''s language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters.

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

A leading writer on American theatre explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights.

The Politics of Irish Drama analyses some twenty-five of the best-known Irish plays from Dion Boucicault to Sebastian Barry.

This book, first published in 2000, is a history of stage devils in early English drama.

New edition of Modern American Drama completes the survey and comes up to 2000.

Redefines the relationship between writing and performance in Shakespeare''s theatre.

This book analyses how Shakespeare is recreated in historical performance.

In this 2002 book, Alan Dessen examines the pluses and minuses of directors'' rescripting or rewrighting of Shakespeare''s playtexts.

This book discusses the links between women''s racial, sexual, and civic identities in early modern texts.

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting, and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens, with a view of furthering the reader's understanding of primitive mental states.

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.

This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age.

The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642.

This introduction provides a concise overview of the central issues and critical responses to Shakespeare s sonnets, looking at the themes, images, and structure of his work, as well as the social and historical circumstances surrounding their creation.

In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to Shakespeare s plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.

This Guide introduces students to critical writing on Shakespeare s comedies over the last four centuries.

This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day.

This Guide steers students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare s history plays, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their critical repertoire.

This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life.

Focusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979.