Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This multidisciplinary study of Japan''s storytelling tradition of Kamigata rakugo comes with five stories translated.

Othello has long been, and remains, one of Shakespeare's most popular works.

Stories define how we think, the way we play, and the way we understand our lives.

New edition, revised for the centenary of Brecht's birth, containing additional updated materialIn this classic study, John Willett sets in context not only Brecht the theatre practitioner but Brecht the writer and man of his time.

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

Lorca in English examines the evolution of translations of Federico Garcia Lorca into English as a case of rewriting and manipulation through politically and ideologically motivated translation.

This is a literary study of Aeschylus' Persians alongside Herodotus' Histories, which offers a comprehensive understanding what actually happened at the battle of Salamis and afterwards.

The twenty-eight essays of this collection, first published in 1962, are the work of distinguished British, Canadian, and American scholars.

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

This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Renaissance tragedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical responses over the course of nearly four centuries.

In his latest book, John Russell Brown offers a new and revealing way of reading and studying Shakespeare's plays, focusing on what a play does for an audience, as well as what its text says.

The Art of John Webster, first published in 1972, is a study of the three extant plays of Webster known to be solely his work.

Im Jahr 1996 prophezeit die Pariser Zeitung Libération nach dem Besuch der Performance Le Cri du Chaméléon eine dritte Ära des Zirkus: den Zeitgenössischen Zirkus.

In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which engage more directly with sound, including sound poetry, experimental music and pop.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable.

The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy, and covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university level.

The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts.

It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the man heralded as the greatest writer in the English language and England's national poet, died.

With rare exceptions, English and American views of Corneille derive from that documentary approach that is more interested in a writer's times than in the writer.

As one of the world's leading voice coaches, Patsy Rodenburg describes practical ways to approach language, using Shakespeare, Romantic poetry, modern prose and a range of other texts to help each of us discover our own unique need for words.

In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled Mr.

Detailed study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage.

Written (and occasionally performed) by Rob Drummond in collaboration with director David Overend, these scripts are a record of a long-term artistic partnership.

The greatest plays of Terence Rattigan (1911-77) - including The Browning Version, The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables and The Winslow Boy - are now established classics.

Metatheater, or "e;theater within theater,"e; is a critical approach often used in studies of Shakespearian or modern drama.

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden.

So we're clearYou know, right?

This book provides a reassessment of the relationship between Reformed theology and early modern literature, with analysis of key writers and thinkers.

The image of the prism, with its multiple refractions, offers some sense of the inexhaustible variety of a work of art.

First Published in 1995.

Featuring four new plays written and devised in collaboration with groups of secondary school children, this collection examines immigration to and emigration from the UK.

When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, N.

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeare's words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the Cue Scripts from the Comedies in Shakespeare's First Folio.

The first edition for half a century of any play of Menander designed for English-speaking students reading it in Greek.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises.

Commentary providing firm grounding in matters of language and text while addressing major literary, dramatic and historical questions.

This book demonstrates that the classics are of central importance in Shakespeare''s plays and in the structure of his imagination.

Recent studies in early modern cultural bibliography have put forth a radically new Shakespearea man of keen literary ambition who wrote for page as well as stage.

Sexual types on the early modern stage are at once strange and familiar, associated with a range of "e;unnatural"e; or "e;monstrous"e; sexual and gender practices, yet familiar because readily identifiable as types: recognizable figures of literary imagination and social fantasy.

Why are certain words used as insults in Shakespeare's world and what do these words do and say?

The contents of the Shakespeare canon have come into question in recent years as scholars add plays or declare others only partially his work.

The first edition to provide fully annotated and cross-referenced transcriptions of all paratextual materials in English printed drama to 1642.

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.

Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's creative life than is usually appreciated.