Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett''s prose, drama and poetry.

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett''s prose, drama and poetry.

A short history of Shakespeare in performance, from the Restoration to the present day.

This Element focuses on the casting in productions of Shakespeare from 2017–2020.

Marathons through Shakespeare''s history plays are feats of endurance for the repertory companies performing them and the audiences attending them.

Marathons through Shakespeare''s history plays are feats of endurance for the repertory companies performing them and the audiences attending them.

This is the fourth and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the complete works of John Webster.

Engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century that explores how audiences responded emotionally to the performances.

Engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century that explores how audiences responded emotionally to the performances.

Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries focuses on the broad movements of national revivalism that took place around the turn of the century as Finland and Norway, and later Iceland, were gaining their independence.

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

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides?

The definitive text on the social, intellectual and theatrical conditions within which Molière operated and his subsequent impact worldwide.

Examining theatrical bodies, the spaces inhabited by actors and audiences, and the texts that circulate around and between them.

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht''s significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century.

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht''s significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century.

Recounts and reflects on Shakespeare''s Globe''s experiment with original pronunciation.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable.

Demonstrates how Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of Stoicism as performance, rather than intellectual doctrine.

Provides an historical overview of women''s mythmaking and thus their contributions to, and an alternative genealogy of, modern Irish theatre.

Demonstrates how Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of Stoicism as performance, rather than intellectual doctrine.

Provides an historical overview of women''s mythmaking and thus their contributions to, and an alternative genealogy of, modern Irish theatre.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable.

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

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

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

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

The Complete Plays gathers Robert Browning's dramatic writing, including works such as Strafford, A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, Colombe's Birthday, and Pippa Passes, revealing a poet deeply engaged with theatre, history, conscience, and moral crisis.

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides?

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

Reveals the contribution of Irish writers to the Georgian English stage; argues that theatre is an important strand of the Irish Enlightenment.

Reveals the contribution of Irish writers to the Georgian English stage; argues that theatre is an important strand of the Irish Enlightenment.

Ibsen in Context provides an unparalleled wealth of material on Ibsen''s life, career, works and afterlives.

Ibsen in Context provides an unparalleled wealth of material on Ibsen''s life, career, works and afterlives.

Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Tom Stoppard in Context illuminates the cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts of one of the most important modern playwrights.

Examining how technological developments in performance practices affect spectator experience of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Tom Stoppard in Context illuminates the cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts of one of the most important modern playwrights.

Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.

Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.

Healy demonstrates how Renaissance alchemy shaped Shakespeare''s bawdy but spiritual sonnets, transforming our understanding of Shakespeare''s art and beliefs.

Reissued with an essay on Macbeth this is a collection of essays on Shakespeare''s tragedies.

Healy demonstrates how Renaissance alchemy shaped Shakespeare''s bawdy but spiritual sonnets, transforming our understanding of Shakespeare''s art and beliefs.

Reissued with an essay on Macbeth this is a collection of essays on Shakespeare''s tragedies.

A collection of essays on film adaptations of Shakespeare''s plays.

This book offers a collection of essays on Shakespeare''s life and works in popular forms and media.

This Companion is devoted to the life and works of Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights in early modern London.

This collection of thirteen original essays covers Williams''s work from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s to his last play before his death in 1983.