Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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The role of women as writers, literary and dramatic characters, and real queens in early modern Europe was central to the development of Tudor ideas about gender and women's place in society.

Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides are often described as the greatest tragedians of the ancient world.

In this book Professor Berkowitz studies the diversity of American drama from the stylistic, experimental plays of O'Neill, through verse, tragedy and community theatre, to the theatre of the 1990s.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

This companion volume to The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works concentrates on the issues of canon and chronology--currently the most active and controversial debates in the field of Shakespeare editing.

This book shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture.

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First Published in 1996.

Neil Simon (1927-2018) began as a writer for some of the leading comedians of the day-including Jackie Gleason, Red Buttons, Phil Silvers, and Jerry Lewis-and he wrote for fabled television programs alongside a group of writers that included Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Larry Gelbart, Michael Stewart, and Sid Caesar.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, France became famous - notorious even - across Europe for its ambitious attempts to codify and theorise a system of universally valid dramatic 'rules'.

This book explores thought experiments in Shakespeare and shows how experimental psychology can be found in early modern English literature.

Unsettled Toleration: Religious Difference on the Shakespearean Stage historicizes and scrutinizes the unstable concept of toleration as it emerges in drama performed on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stages.

For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Este volumen recoge los resultados del simposio que se celebró los días 15 y 16 de mayo de 2011 en la University of Chicago.

This guide surveys the truly essential criticism of the play over the last four centuries, from 16th-century responses to the present day.

Examines the engagement of Aristophanes'' Thesmophoriazusae with Parmenidean philosophy to issue a political critique of tragic deception and its effects.

A collection of specially written essays offering a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists working today.

Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama.

This dictionary explores the language of domestic life found in Shakespeare's work and seeks to demonstrate the meanings he attaches to it through his uses of it in particular contexts.

"e;An extraordinary oral history of the making of a modern musical masterpiece.

Teaching creative writing for the multicultural, global, and digital generation, this volume offers a fresh approach for enhancing core writing skills in the major forms of Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama.

According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual.

In her first collection of plays, writer and BAFTA-nominated actor Maxine Peake introduces four unique stories of resistance and passion based on real women.

This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era.

Yeats on Theatre presents, for the first time, a view of Yeats as a key thinker of the modern theatre.

Selection of sixteen provocative and stimulating essays on the complex subject of Shakespeare and politics.

From the Renaissance to today, this fascinating theatre history investigates how and why Shakespeare''s plays have been performed by amateurs.

The Ocean of Mirth brings together an English translation and an analytical interpretation of a singularly crucial, but obscure, Sanskrit medieval text, the Hasyarnava-Prahasanam of Jagadesvara Bhattacharya.

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A Companion addressing all aspects of Shakespeare in performance, first published in 1992.

Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus revivifies the complex question of fate and freedom in the tragedies of the famous Greek playwright.

'Hasa Diga Eebowai'In 2011, a musical full of curse words and Mormon missionaries swept that year's Tony Awards and was praised as a triumphant return of the American musical.

His uniform is picturesque; a hat with triple plumeDoublet, cape, and sword - worn like a peacock's tail.

Robert Heilman gives an appreciation of Shakespeare as a whole man.

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.

Not since 1896 has Sophocles'' Ajax received such a sustained analysis on so many levels: literary, dramatic, textual and metrical.

This Element considers the intersection between Shakespearean drama and the exciting new medium of virtual reality.

A contributory volume examining the work of the British playwright David Hare.

Provides a new way of reading Western tragedy alongside texts from the postcolonial world so as to cross-illuminate each other.

Hailed as one of the most talented playwrights to have emerged in the late 2000s, Mike Bartlett's diverse range of plays strike at the heart of the various crises predominant in the early twenty-first century.

The Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter?

Using fresh print and manuscript evidence, this book provides a new reading of playscripts in the Shakespearean period.

A comprehensive advanced introduction to and scholarly commentary on the work of the Swiss writer Max Frisch, one of the leading German-language dramatists and novelists of the late twentieth century.

This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern authors.