Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Ladies, Gentlemen, and then all the legends that have realised gender is a trap introducing the Sound of the Underground.

Sometimes you surprise people into being better than they are.

Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsion is one of Shakespeare's central dramatic concerns.

Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsion is one of Shakespeare's central dramatic concerns.

THE TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThis book charts the personal and professional journey of Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2012 until 2022 and "e;one of the great Shakespearians of his generation"e; (Sunday Times).

THE TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThis book charts the personal and professional journey of Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2012 until 2022 and "e;one of the great Shakespearians of his generation"e; (Sunday Times).

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on its relationship with business and finance.

Multiple award-winning Mark O'Halloran is one of Ireland's most celebrated writers.

Multiple award-winning Mark O'Halloran is one of Ireland's most celebrated writers.

Here is a witty and learned literary excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed inter alia by the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding - leading in the second half to some glorious insights and observations provided by author's life experience in the world of diplomacy.

A showcase of innovative, global, collaborative Shakespeare education projects between institutions, educators, practitioners and students.

The definitive guide to the historical tumult and complex intellectual worlds that Chekhov both inhabited and influenced.

In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love.

Winner of the 2021 Alfred Fagon AwardIt's a play, a performance, a ritual, about human farming, farming humans, soil and the soul, seeds and cells.

Studying Shakespeare in the high school classroom can and sometimes should begin with images and film.

If I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because I'm just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like.

If I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because I'm just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like.

'Witty and scholarly'JONATHAN BATE, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling'GUARDIAN'Illuminating .

First published in 1974, Investigating Drama offers a holistic understanding of drama.

First published in 1974, Investigating Drama offers a holistic understanding of drama.

I'm his mother.

I'm his mother.

Lauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity''s crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.

Sarah Kane was one of the landmark playwrights of 1990s Britain, her influence being felt across UK and European theatre.

Sarah Kane was one of the landmark playwrights of 1990s Britain, her influence being felt across UK and European theatre.

From the author of Into the Forest, a moving novel about memory, Shakespeare's green worlds, and the power of reconciliation.

In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler.

Staging Violence Against Women and Girls brings together three contemporary plays that denounce gendered violence, along with interviews with their creators and the practitioners who have staged them in different national contexts.

Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews embarking on an arranged marriage, despite barely knowing each other.

What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama?

In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler.

Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews embarking on an arranged marriage, despite barely knowing each other.

The first book on Restoration Shakespeare in performance, drawing on theatre history, musicology and literary criticism.

Shakespeare and Happiness is a study of attitudes to happiness in the early modern period and in Shakespeare's plays.

Shakespeare and Happiness is a study of attitudes to happiness in the early modern period and in Shakespeare's plays.

This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage and positions it as part of an ongoing cultural, ethical, and psychological debate about the effects of performance on actors and on spectators.

This unique study is the first monograph on the manifold intertextual relations and poetic echoes between Shakespeare and Beckett.

Sometimes you surprise people into being better than they are.

Six exciting new plays by some of the best artists working in the UK today written with and for young people.

Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a 'stranger' to English law in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period.

Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a 'stranger' to English law in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period.

Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre critically engages with works of theatre both by and about working-class women, historically and presently.

Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien.

Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction with the foreign and the alien.

The Big House Anthology is a celebration of the last decade of work and plays by a unique theatre company, featuring five original plays that offer a chance for stories with diverse casts to contribute to the canon of theatre's literature.

The first book on Restoration Shakespeare in performance, drawing on theatre history, musicology and literary criticism.

This unique study is the first monograph on the manifold intertextual relations and poetic echoes between Shakespeare and Beckett.

Through classical, Scriptural, and global notions of virtue, this handbook illuminates the shared worlds of Shakespeare''s plays.

This volume documents the reception and interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear by critics, editors and general readers from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.