Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Why does Catholicism have such an imaginative hold on Shakespearean drama, even though the on-going Reformation outlawed its practice?

A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture.

Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jacobean tragedy.

Sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself(Miles Davis)Two men meet at a funeral.

First published in 1999.

This collection of thirteen original essays covers Williams''s work from the early apprenticeship years in the 1930s to his last play before his death in 1983.

In her first collection of plays, Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's talent for writing complex female characters is on dazzling display.

Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries, Thomas Mann and Shakespeare is the first book-length study to explore the always fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, connections between Shakespeare and Mann.

'You want me to have full penetrative sex with your son, right?

This volume argues against Gerard Genette's theory that there is an "e;insurmountable opposition"e; between drama and narrative and shows that the two forms of storytelling have been productively intertwined throughout literary history.

I want to be iconic.

An approachable and engaging guide to Shakespeare''s poetry, this volume provides students with ways to understand and appreciate the poems.

See in my opinion there are two types of people in the world.

This second edition of All''s Well That Ends Well features a new introduction by Alexander Leggatt.

This volume sets out a novel approach to theatre historiography, presenting the history of performances of Greek tragedies in Germany since 1800 as the history of the evolving cultural identity of the educated middle class throughout that period.

Reveals the contribution of Irish writers to the Georgian English stage; argues that theatre is an important strand of the Irish Enlightenment.

From Oscar-winning British classics to Hollywood musicals and Westerns, from Soviet epics to Bollywood thrillers, Shakespeare has inspired an almost infinite variety of films.

Abigail Bray offers a lucid and accessible introduction to H l ne Cixous and her theorisation of writing and sexual difference.

Nominated for Outstanding Drama Education Resource at the 2024 Music & Drama Education AwardsA first-of-its-kind anthology, Beyond The Canon's Plays for Young Activists combines plays, toolkits, and an online guide to empower young people into activism.

Hamlet as performed by philosophers, with supporting roles played by Kant, Nietzsche, and others.

This book argues that the destruction of Jerusalem is a key explanatory trope for early modern texts.

One of a series of books offering close textual analysis of the major works of English literature.

Set in politically unstable environments, Shakespeare's history plays--Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV and Henry V--and HBO's Western series Deadwood (2004-2006) all stand as critiques of myths of national origin, the sanitized stories we tell ourselves about how power imposes order on chaos.

During the 1820s and 30s nautical melodramas "e;reigned supreme"e; on London stages, entertaining the mariners and maritime workers who comprised a large part of the audience for small theatres with the same sentimental moments and comic interludes of domestic melodrama mixed with patriotic images that communicated and reinforced imperial themes.

This Companion examines the complete works of Seneca in context and establishes the importance of his legacy in Western thought.

This book rediscovers a spiritual way of preparing the actor towards experiencing that ineffable artistic creativity defined by Konstantin Stanislavski as the creative state.

The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes.

Hamlet is one of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, studied and performed around the world.

This literary biography is “a story of obsession and the search for pure childhood .

First published in 1956, Beaumont and Fletcher offers a compact critical survey of the plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, as well as Fletcher's collaborations with Massinger and Shakespeare.

Trees don't have ears.

ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays.

Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture.

'Tis Pity She's a Whore is one of the most controversial plays ever staged in the English theatre.

The tradition of direct address has little to do with the frequently touted notion of the "e;fluidity of the Renaissance stage"e;: the point is not that stage characters can talk to the audience but that they actually do reach out to the playgoers and in so doing import aspects of the audience world to the stage.

Women playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama.

The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information.

Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined spans over a century of great theatre to explore how iconic plays have been adapted and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the contemporary zeitgeist.

While the past decade proved to be some of the most tumultuous times in modern US history, the Black community has been resilient, opening up dialogues and sustaining advocacy.

Consulting an extensive archive of early modern literature, Joy of the Worm asserts that voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy.

Zeami (1363-1443), Japan's most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of the finest plays of no drama.

A LOVE LETTER TO 67 YEARS OF ACTING ON STAGE - THE NO.