Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This book considers some of the main adaptations of the character of Cleopatra for the Renaissance stage, travelling from Italy to England to arrive finally to Shakespeare.

Abducted by Jupiter for his beauty and made cupbearer to the gods, Ganymede has long been interpreted as an emblem of pederasty and queer desire.

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings, and retellings of these histories in Great Britain and beyond.

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings, and retellings of these histories in Great Britain and beyond.

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the role of religion in Shakespeare's plays and poems.

This book considers some of the main adaptations of the character of Cleopatra for the Renaissance stage, travelling from Italy to England to arrive finally to Shakespeare.

Originally published in 1972, Restoration Literature is a landmark in the study of seventeenth-century English literature.

Originally published in 1972, Restoration Literature is a landmark in the study of seventeenth-century English literature.

First Published in 1974, Roads to Consciousness has for its protagonist the idealistic truth-seeking young man who sees that men are evil and righteously condemns the ways of this wicked world, but then falls into cynicism and despair when he discovers at last that he too is a man, and he too is evil.

First Published in 1974, Roads to Consciousness has for its protagonist the idealistic truth-seeking young man who sees that men are evil and righteously condemns the ways of this wicked world, but then falls into cynicism and despair when he discovers at last that he too is a man, and he too is evil.

Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically contextualized examination of the mechanics of blackness in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Since the mid-1950s, when the works of Samuel Beckett began to attract sustained critical attention, commentators have tended either to dismiss his oeuvre as nihilist or defend it as anti-nihilist.

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c.

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c.

Since the mid-1950s, when the works of Samuel Beckett began to attract sustained critical attention, commentators have tended either to dismiss his oeuvre as nihilist or defend it as anti-nihilist.

Shakespeare in Pakistan offers a comprehensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan, with a focus on how these works engage with creative, indigenous, cultural, culinary, and religious expressions of identity.

Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare's theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural bias towards leadership models to reconsider possibilities of working in a non-hierarchical and inclusive creative theatrical practice.

Rather than looking at different manifestations of early modern piracy as geographically and temporally isolated cultural phenomena, Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas (1550-1800) pursues a comprehensive approach to this field of study.

Rather than looking at different manifestations of early modern piracy as geographically and temporally isolated cultural phenomena, Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy: Connecting the Seas (1550-1800) pursues a comprehensive approach to this field of study.

Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically contextualized examination of the mechanics of blackness in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare's theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural bias towards leadership models to reconsider possibilities of working in a non-hierarchical and inclusive creative theatrical practice.

Shakespeare in Pakistan offers a comprehensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan, with a focus on how these works engage with creative, indigenous, cultural, culinary, and religious expressions of identity.

Contemporary North American History Plays examines how feminist theatre makers employ metadramatic techniques to revolutionize historical storytelling on the American stage.

Contemporary North American History Plays examines how feminist theatre makers employ metadramatic techniques to revolutionize historical storytelling on the American stage.

What makes Shakespeare's late plays so special?

What makes Shakespeare's late plays so special?

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

This study situates Tilney's intelligence manual in the emerging genre that developed around intelligence gathering in the late sixteenth century and attempts to explain how he reconciled the tension between his admiration for the aims of humanist history and his political and religious beliefs, matters directly relevant to understanding the sensibilities he brought to his duties and censor of plays and as a producer of plays for the court.

This study situates Tilney's intelligence manual in the emerging genre that developed around intelligence gathering in the late sixteenth century and attempts to explain how he reconciled the tension between his admiration for the aims of humanist history and his political and religious beliefs, matters directly relevant to understanding the sensibilities he brought to his duties and censor of plays and as a producer of plays for the court.

This volume explores the adaptations of Greek tragedy, performances, and activism of playwright Luis Alfaro and their impact on the field of Classics, classroom instruction, and community outreach.

This volume explores the adaptations of Greek tragedy, performances, and activism of playwright Luis Alfaro and their impact on the field of Classics, classroom instruction, and community outreach.

Originally published in 1980, each of the three playwrights discussed in this lively book was a radical in his own way, concerned with the moral and social implications of capitalism.

Professor Webster was a well-known, prolific writer on the Greek theatre.

Originally published in 1980, each of the three playwrights discussed in this lively book was a radical in his own way, concerned with the moral and social implications of capitalism.

Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within three plays from different times in Shakespeare's career through a Jungian framework.

Professor Webster was a well-known, prolific writer on the Greek theatre.

Keine ausfuhrliche Beschreibung fur "e;Aus den Anfangen der sozialistischen Dramatik I"e; verfugbar.

Keine ausfuhrliche Beschreibung fur "e;Aus den Anfangen der Sozialistischen Dramatik II"e; verfugbar.

Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within three plays from different times in Shakespeare's career through a Jungian framework.

This study examines ten Irish versions of Greek tragedy that have been written and produced between 1988 and 2019.

This study examines ten Irish versions of Greek tragedy that have been written and produced between 1988 and 2019.

In Edward Albee and Absurdism-the inaugural volume in the new book series, New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies-Michael Y.

In The Lyon Terence Giulia Torello-Hill and Andrew J.

Documentary and Verbatim Theatre surveys the emergence and rise of work based on real life in contemporary theatre, exploring the artists, methodologies, plays, and central themes that have characterised its enduring popularity.