Literary studies: plays and playwrights

British theatre has a greater tradition than any other, having started all the way back in 1311 and still going strong today.

The collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Includes Malone, Hazlitt, Dowden, Swinburne, Pater, Brandes, Chambers, Masefield and Frank Harris.

Kate Aughterson provides readers with an approachable and fascinating critical guide to the dramatic works of an important seventeenth-century woman writer.

This book demonstrates how the book trade of 1640–1740 canonised Shakespeare by selling, editing and promoting his plays and poems.

In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.

National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland.

Exploring a wide variety of examples of activist performances, such as David Buckel's self-immolation, and the January 6th capitol insurrection, this book analyses activist performance through the lens of postdramatic theatre theory.

Though it might seem as modern as Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, and Vladimir Nabokov, translingual writing - texts by authors using more than one language or a language other than their primary one - has an ancient pedigree.

Malone, in the eighteenth century, came up with a method for determining Shakespeare''s chronology that was wrong: we have been using it ever since.

A single dad meets his adopted daughter for the first time.

The first publication of King Edward III in an authoritative edition of Shakespeare''s works.

This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and reception of some of No l Coward's most significant plays.

Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays is a collection of fifteen essays by a team of internationally recognized experts specially commissioned to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Addison's death in 2019.

This collection of essays and interviews is the first book about the drama of American playwright Terrence McNally; it examines his career to date (30-plus years), focusing particularly on the two plays for which McNally won Tony Awards for Best Play of 1995, Love!

The first history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of Modern Greece, marked by significant discontinuities.

A History of Modern Drama: Volume II explores a remarkable breadth of topics and analytical approaches to the dramatic works, authors, and transitional events and movements that shaped world drama from 1960 through to the dawn of the new millennium.

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "e;reigned supreme"e; on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes.

In Blood Relations, Janet Adelman confronts her resistance to The Merchant of Venice as both a critic and a Jew.

Shakespeare's plays are works of art made out of words.

GREEK DRAMA and the Invention of Rhetoric An impressively erudite, elegantly crafted argument for reversing what everybody knows about the relation of two literary genres that played before mass audiences in the Athenian city state.

With its focus on gender, power, race, sexuality, and violence, Othello is an important site for new critical approaches to the study of Shakespeare's works.

First published in 1971, Ionesco is a study of the plays written by the absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco.

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day.

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama brings together the work of key playwrights from 1660 to 1800, divided into three main sections: Restoring the Theatre: 1660-1700 Managing Entertainment: 1700-1760 Entertainment in an Age of Revolutions: 1760-1800 Each of the 20 plays featured is accompanied by an extraordinary wealth of print and online supplementary materials, including primary critical sources, commentaries, illustrations, and reviews of productions.

Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue.

A invaluable survey of French theatre since 1968Mise en Sc ne is a book in two parts.

A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city comedy.

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First published in 1990.

Holger Syme demonstrates why the theatre became the central form of cultural expression in Shakespeare''s England.

This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences.

Susan Castillo's pioneering study examines the extraordinary proliferation of polyphonic or 'multi-voiced' texts in the three centuries following the first contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the Americas.

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

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

This second edition of All''s Well That Ends Well features a new introduction by Alexander Leggatt.

Newly commissioned essays explore the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre.

It s a simple idea, really.

This book critically analyzes the body of English language translations Moliere's work for the stage, demonstrating the importance of rhyme and verse forms, the creative work of the translator, and the changing relationship with source texts in these translations and their reception.

Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avonand there are some 700,000 a year who do somight be forgiven for taking the authenticity of the building for granted.

The theme for Volume 73 is ''Shakespeare and the City''.

Julius Caesar presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen.

Shakespeare's famous play, Hamlet, has been the subject of more scholarly analysis and criticism than any other work of literature in human history.