Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Heidi Craig demonstrates how dramatic and theatrical activity paradoxically thrived during the English theatre closures, 1642–1660.

The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in early modern Anglophone literature and culture.

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.

Intrigues et infidélités amoureuses viennent troubler la vie de gens ordinaires, les plongeant dans le maelstrom des passions et des vilenies humaines.

Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaw's own essay The Quintessence of Ibsenism, offered a coherent review of his ideas mainly, though not exclusively, as expressed in his plays and prefaces.

In The Shavian Playground, originally published in 1972, Shaw's plays are examined as self-contained imaginative structures intended for theatrical performance.