Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Covering a period of nearly 40 years' work by the author this collection of essays in the Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies series brings the perspective of a Drama academic and practitioner of early English plays to the understanding of how medieval plays and Robin Hood games of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were performed.

First published in 2002.

»Des Geklimpers vielverworrner Töne Rausch« (Vers 9964) - mit diesen Worten charakterisiert eine Figur im Faust die vielfältigen Versarten, Rhythmen und Reime von Goethes Drama.

Religious issues and discourse are key to an understanding of Shakespeare's plays and poems.

Performance, Reception, Iconography assembles twenty-three papers from an international group of scholars who engage with, and develop, the seminal work of Oliver Taplin.

A study of Yury Lyubimov's tempestuous career and his style of theatre during his thirty years at the Taganka Theatre.

In exploring links between the early modern English theatre and France, Richard Hillman focuses on Shakespeare's deployment of genres whose dominant Italian models and affinities might seem to leave little scope for French ones.

This book explores the vengeance permeating English Renaissance drama, connecting bloodthirsty and blackly comic plays with economics and political resistance.

This edited collection offers the first in-depth analysis and sourcebook for 'Lockdown Shakespeare'.

First Published in 1996.

Nicholas Rowe was the first Poet Laureate of the Georgian era.

Satirists are social critics, but they are also products of society.

First published in 1972, this work pursues the question 'what is comedy?

This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play.

First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship between theater and power in the English Renaissance.

Modern readers find it hard to come to terms with the gods in Euripides' dramas.

As both a literary genre and a view of life, tragedy has from the very beginning spurred a dialogue between poetry and philosophy.

Reading Paul Howard: The Art of Ross O'Carroll Kelly offers a thorough examination of narrative devices, satirical modes, cultural context and humour in Howard's texts.

Passionate, controversial and illuminating this collection contains Empson's best short pieces on Shakespeare, a sally on George Herbert, a defence of Coleridge, and an eager introduction to a French farce, a group of incomparably witty autobiographical articles, and the text to his extraordinary Inaugural Lecture as Professor of English Literature at Sheffield University.

Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times.

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world.

Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese formalistic innovations in sound and spectacle; reparative adaptations from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the politics of gender and reception of films and touring productions in South Korea and the UK; and multilingual, diaspora works in Singapore and the UK.

Reveals a rich cinematic history, discussing Hamlet films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

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.

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

This book explores the supernatural and prophetic elements within Shakespeare's ten plays of English history: King John, Richard II, Henry IV (Parts One and Two), Henry V, Henry VI (Parts One, Two and Three), Richard III, and Henry VIII.

This book examines Shakespeare''s influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.

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

"e;It's moral vision, as well as the Miller voice, which remains as strong and unrelenting as a prophet's, that distinguish Broken Glass.

Morash and Richards present an original approach to understanding how theatre has produced distinctively Irish senses of space and place.

Dramatic Realism, since its birth in the hectic late years of the nineteenth century, gave theatrical and thematic energy to the interaction between a play's text and the way that it looked on the stage.

This Handbook provides an introductory guide to Richard II offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of three or four key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.

American playwrights have made enormous contributions to world drama during the last century, and their works are widely read and performed.

Great Shakespeareans presents a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

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.

A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare s plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole.

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship.

The Renegado is one of the most shamelessly entertaining plays of its age, fetching its inspiration from a number of works by Cervantes, based on his own experiences as a captive in Algiers.

Two tales of multiple misunderstanding by the eighteenth-century master of complex, witty comedies.

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of ''true'' Englishness in his early plays.

When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us?

This bold and compelling revisionist history tells the remarkable story of the forgotten lives and labours of Shakespeare''s women editors.

This book looks at Shakespeare through performance, capturing the dialogue between performance, Shakespeare, and contemporary concerns in the humanities.

A bold play collection representing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) experiences, from Black British perspectives, this anthology contains seven radical plays by Black writers that change the face of theatre in Britain.