Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

What happens when we engage with fictional characters?

This book examines how Jacobean authors interpreted and responded to the works of King James VI and I.

"e;Alexis Piron (1689-1773) was one of the most renowned humorists of eighteenth-century France, his rapier wit feared even by Voltaire.

The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

Shakespeare / Sex interrogates the relationship between Shakespeare and sex by challenging readers to consider Shakespeare's texts in light of the most recent theoretical approaches to gender and sexuality studies.

Islam in Performance brings together six contemporary plays from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan that highlight the political performance of Islam in South Asia, especially since the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.

Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots of the Eucharistic controversy in 16th century England had very material and embodied consequences.

What does it mean to teach Shakespeare with purpose?

This volume offers the first in-depth investigation of Thomas Heywood's engagement with the classics.

Includes: Lee Breuer, Christopher Durang, Richard Foreman, Maria Irene Fornes, Charles Fuller, John Guare, Joan Holden, David Henry Hwang, David Mamet, Emily Mann, Richard Nelson, Marsha Norman, David Rabe, Wallace Shawn, Stephen Sondheim, Megan Terry, Luis Valdez, Michael Weller, August Wilson and Lanford Wilson.

The second edition of King Richard III, with a new introductory section by Janis Lull.

This book studies the Shakespearean history play, examining the work of the Queen''s Men and their influence on Shakespeare.

A village.

Second edition of Antony and Cleopatra featuring an introductory section on recent criticism and performance.

This book sheds new light on the dramatic devices Shakespeare developed for turning history into theatre in his history plays.

This is a critical edition, or "e;edition critique,"e; of Victor Hugo's play Hernani.

Do you struggle to find the perfect monologue for your audition or exam?

How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead.

This book maps South Asian theatre productions that have contextualised Ibsen's plays to underscore the emergent challenges of postcolonial nation formation.

Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare's most popular play.

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages, with a particular concentration on environmental matters.

This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present.

Award-winning British novelist Margaret Drabble is renowned for her fiction, stories that gave voice to the new woman of the 1960s and continue to illuminate the conflicting roles of women in the twenty-first century.

Lyric Incarnate examines the plays of Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian Symbolism and one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.

Shakespeare for Freedom shows why Shakespeare has mattered for four hundred years, and why he still matters today.

In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private theatre.

The video-sharing platform YouTube signals exciting opportunities and challenges for Shakespeare studies.

Shakespeare's poetic-dramatic worlds are inescapably limited.

This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare.

This collection historicises the life and works of George Bernard Shaw through the lens of forty-two popular subjects of study.

First Published in 1998.

The first in-depth look at Peter Sellars, the avant-garde director whose Shakespeare productions have polarized communities and critics.

This book traces the entrance of Western stage drama into China and the initial reception it received from Chinese intellectuals.

The purpose of this book is to honor the scholarly legacy of Charles R.

This volume, first published in 2000, is an accessible Companion on one of the most important dramatists in the repertoire.

A revised edition of this intriguing and complex play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and stage history.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Auseinandersetzung mit Shakespeare" verfügbar.

What is the tragic imagination ?