Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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.

This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts.

HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE This is a companion to Shakespeare with a difference.

In Lorca's Legacy, Jonathan Mayhew explores multiple aspects of the creative and critical afterlife of Federico Garcia Lorca, the most internationally recognized Spanish poet and playwright of the twentieth century.

In Lorca's Legacy, Jonathan Mayhew explores multiple aspects of the creative and critical afterlife of Federico Garcia Lorca, the most internationally recognized Spanish poet and playwright of the twentieth century.

To what extent is a great comic writer the product of his time?

To what extent is a great comic writer the product of his time?

Covering a period of nearly 40 years' work by the author this collection of essays in the Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and practitioner of early English plays to the understanding of how medieval plays and Robin Hood games of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were performed.

Covering a period of nearly 40 years' work by the author this collection of essays in the Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and practitioner of early English plays to the understanding of how medieval plays and Robin Hood games of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were performed.

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Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.

The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance.

The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance.