Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Published in 1985: The main plot portrays the bachelor Octavio, Marquis of Siena, and his establishment of his "e;Bower of Fancies,"e; something like a Platonic academy for those he calls the "e;fancies"e; - Clarella, Silvia, and Floria, three young women who are, or are said to be,"e;young, wise, noble, fair, and chaste.

First published in 1995, Ross provides a critical edition of Thomas Shadwell's Bury Fair.

Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi's late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Originally compiled and published in 1988, this vole contains the full text and translation of Walter Hawkesworth's Labyrinthus, alongside textual and critical notes, including essays on the author, the staging and the style and language.

In Formulated Experiences, Peter L.

Published in 1991 The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda is a late Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy.

Published in 1987: The Play of the Wether is an English interlude or morality play from the early Tudor period.

Published in 1987: This thesis presents an edition of the author's play, Monsieur Thomas, with a substantial introduction in several sections and a sizeable apparatus.

Claudio Monteverdi's Venetian Operas features chapters by a group of scholars and performers of varied backgrounds and specialties, who confront the various questions raised by Monteverdi's late operas from an interdisciplinary perspective.

First published in 1995, Ross provides a critical edition of Thomas Shadwell's Bury Fair.

Originally published in 2005.

Originally published in 2005.

Originally published in 1952 The Lost Literature of Medieval England provides an account of lost masterpieces of medieval English literature.

Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Europe moves away from the customary conceptual framework that artificially separates 'medieval' from 'early modern' drama to explore the role of drama and spectacle in England, France, the Low Countries, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, and the German-speaking areas that now constitute Austria and Germany.

Originally published in 1952 The Lost Literature of Medieval England provides an account of lost masterpieces of medieval English literature.

Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Europe moves away from the customary conceptual framework that artificially separates 'medieval' from 'early modern' drama to explore the role of drama and spectacle in England, France, the Low Countries, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, and the German-speaking areas that now constitute Austria and Germany.

"Man sollte wirklich alles, was sich über das Gemeine erheben muß, in Versen, wenigstens anfänglich konzipieren.

Shakespeare most often locates his plays in Italy and England, and his third most frequent setting is France.

Raymond Williams' reputation rests mainly on his contribution to literary and cultural studies, but he was also an important critic and theoretician in the field of drama.

With an introduction by Simon CallowJudgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion.

A revealing examination of an under-explored area of Shakespeare studies, this work looks at the evidence for the author's deep and evolving response to the loss of his only son, Hamnet.

When Victor Cahn's Shakespeare the Playwright was issued in 1991, it was highly recommended for any general public library and for academic collections at all undergraduate levels (Choice) and viewed as a useful guide for the general reader, as well as high school and undergraduate students Library Journal.

This revealing study looks at the influences and creative impulses that shape one of today's most progressive, thoughtful filmmakers.

From the star-crossed romance of Romeo and Juliet to Othello's misguided murder of Desdemona to the betrayal of King Lear by his daughters, family life is central to Shakespeare's dramas.

This book examines the important themes of sexuality, gender, love, and marriage in stage, literary, and film treatments of Shakespeare's plays.

Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the French playwright Moli^D`ere became one of the most influential dramatists of the 17th century.

William Shakespeare comes alive for students with these engaging activities.

Empower students with plays that allow them to address such sensitive issues as suicide, alcoholism, and divorce.

The book focuses on individuals writing in the '90s, but also includes 12 classic authors (e.

Taking seriously the commonplace that a man is known by the company he keeps-and particularly by the company he keeps over his lifetime-one can learn more about just about anyone by learning more about his friends.

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959) was a major dramatic success and brought to the world's attention the potential talent of African American women playwrights.

Irish women writers have a large following, and their works are attracting large amounts of scholarly and critical attention.

Despite their significant contributions to the American theater, African American dramatists have received less critical attention than novelists and poets.

The most complete record of a contemporary American dramatist available, David Mamet: A Resource and Production Sourcebook is the result of ten years' research by a widely published drama and theatre scholar and a university bibliographic specialist.

Modern British and Irish dramatic works are among the plays most widely read by students.

Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus plays, Euripides' Medea and Bacchae, and Aristophanes' Birds and Lysistrata are discussed in this lively and scholarly volume.

Many of our favorite films began as plays-some as well known as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and some not so well known as You've Got Mail's origin, a 1937 play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo.

American playwrights have made enormous contributions to world drama during the last century, and their works are widely read and performed.

Through an examination of six plays by Shakespeare, the author presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the last decade of Elizabethan rule and their representation in poetic drama of the period.

The plays of Tennessee Williams are some of the greatest triumphs of the American theatre.

'To say this series is "e;empowering"e; doesn't do it justice.

Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how?

David Henry Hwang is best known as the author of M.

Lillian Hellman was a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most successful female playwrights on Broadway.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleGertrude Stein wrote almost one hundred plays, many of which were published and performed during her lifetime.

Bill Brysons bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarshipupdated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts.

“[Julius] Green turned detective himself and scoured archives around the world to uncover a number of unpublished, unknown works .

This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how the author's early years influence his life's work and how his writing, in turn, informs his political engagement.