Literary studies: plays and playwrights

The turbulent decade of the 60s CE brought Rome to the brink of collapse.

Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature.

The first book-length study of the relationship between science and theater during the long eighteenth century in Britain, The Theater of Experiment explores the crucial role of spectacle in the establishment of modern science by analyzing how eighteenth-century science was "e;staged"e; in a double sense.

What role did poetry, music, song, and dance play in the social and political life of the ancient Greek city?

Stephen Scully both offers a reading of Hesiod's Theogony and traces the reception and shadows of this authoritative Greek creation story in Greek and Roman texts up to Milton's own creation myth, which sought to "e;soar above th' Aonian Mount [i.

Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature.

Speculation about Shakespeare's own religious beliefs and responses to the Reformation have dominated discussions of faith in the playwright's work for decades.

Treating sixteenth- and seventeenth-century erotic literature as part of English political history, Erotic Subjects traces some surprising implications of two early modern commonplaces: first, that love is the basis of political consent and obedience, and second, that suffering is an intrinsic part of love.

A series of bizarre disappearances filled the citizens of early nineteenth-century Scotland with terror.

Money talked in sixteenth-century England, as money still does today.

Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama is the first book that examines how ancient Greek tragedy engages with the genre of comedy.

Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama is the first book that examines how ancient Greek tragedy engages with the genre of comedy.

Henrik Ibsen's plays have long beguiled philosophically-oriented readers.

Henrik Ibsen's plays have long beguiled philosophically-oriented readers.

Sophocles' Electra is a riveting play with a long and varied reception.

Sophocles' Electra is a riveting play with a long and varied reception.

These are Shakespeare's greatest writings on power in all its forms - in love, in war, in politics and in the family.

A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience.

Mike Leigh s 1970s classic play Abigail s Party focuses on an evening of domestic hell in the guise of a suburban drinks soir e.

This compilation, in the tradition of the Victorian miscellany, gathers together essential facts and fascinating insights into the plays and poems, the man behind them (insofar as this is known), and the context in which he worked.

A unique collection of Shakespeare's soliloquies, each introduced by concise and informative editorial notes.

Humour, pathos and suffering, and the culminating drama of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, give these plays a wonderful immediacy.

'Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York'Shakespeare's final drama of the Wars of the Roses cycle begins as the dust settles on England after bloody civil war, and the bitter hunchback Richard, brother of the king, secretly plots to seize the throne.

In The Theory of the Modern Stage, leading drama critic, Eric Bentley, brings together landmark writings by dramatists, directors and thinkers who have had a profound effect on the theatre since the mid nineteenth century, from Adolphe Appia to mile Zola.

How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet?

When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous.

'Enjoyable, lively such a pleasure to read renders the drama of Shakespeare s contemporaries more than fringe entertainment Independent Shakespeare is one of the greatest of all English figures, considered a genius for all time.

In the seventeenth century, Moli re raised comedy to the pitch of great art and, three centuries later, his plays are still a source of delight.

In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded.

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From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "e;small Latin and less Greek.

In his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of the theater whose plays were less finished artifacts than works in process.

King Lear is perhaps the most fierce and moving play ever written.

How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama?

For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "e;out of joint,"e; their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation.

Shakespeare's Schoolroom places moments of considerable emotional power in Shakespeare's poetryportraits of what his contemporaries called "e;the passions"e;alongside the discursive and material practices of sixteenth-century English pedagogy.

Recent studies in early modern cultural bibliography have put forth a radically new Shakespearea man of keen literary ambition who wrote for page as well as stage.

What do the Dead Sea Scrolls and frog overlays have to do with performing Shakespeare?

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In Subjects of Advice, Ivan Lupi uncovers the rich interconnectedness of dramatic art and the culture of counsel in the early modern period.

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

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

In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change.

Known today chiefly for his surrender to the American forces at Saratoga, New York, in 1777, General John Burgoyne was one of the most interesting - and extraordinary - figures of the eighteenth century.

Known today chiefly for his surrender to the American forces at Saratoga, New York, in 1777, General John Burgoyne was one of the most interesting - and extraordinary - figures of the eighteenth century.

A full literary and linguistic commentary, suitable for intermediate and advanced students, on this enduringly popular and suspenseful play.

Through classical, Scriptural, and global notions of virtue, this handbook illuminates the shared worlds of Shakespeare''s plays.

This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage and positions it as part of an ongoing cultural, ethical, and psychological debate about the effects of performance on actors and on spectators.

Staging Violence Against Women and Girls brings together three contemporary plays that denounce gendered violence, along with interviews with their creators and the practitioners who have staged them in different national contexts.

Applied Shakespeare is attracting growing interest from practitioners and academics alike, all keen to understand the ways in which performing his works can offer opportunities for reflection, transformation, dialogue regarding social justice, and challenging of perceived limitations.