Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This second edition of Erne''s groundbreaking study includes a new preface that reviews the controversy the book has triggered.

In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into 'Joan Dark', a member of the 'Black Straw Hats' (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago.

Uniquely, this guide analyses the play's critical and performance history and recent criticism, as well as including five essays offering radically new paths for contemporary interpretation.

Plautus was Ancient Rome's greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his legacy is prevalent throughout modern drama.

The book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides' Andromache.

Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman.

Professor Leech examines here the changing nature of Shakespeare's comic art, from its early forms in such plays as The Comedy of Errors and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, where delight predominates, to later developments in Measure for Measure and The Winter's Tale, where elements of the playwright's tragic vision intrude to prevent the effect from being wholly comic.

In this book, first published in 1991, David Mann argues for more attention to the performer in the study of Elizabethan plays and less concern for their supposed meanings and morals.

The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare's late plays to the drama of the Interregnum.

This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare''s life and times.

Shakespeare and London: A Dictionary is a topographical reference book of all the London locations, allusions and colloquial terms mentioned in Shakespeare's complete works.

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage.

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography.

This book, together with A Second Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.

The theatre and drama of the late Georgian period have been the focus of a number of recent studies, but such work has tended to ignore its social and political contexts.

Euripides' "Suppliant Women" is an unfairly neglected master work by the most controversial of the three great tragedians of Ancient Greece.

Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war plays in history.

This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare's plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence Shakespeare's work throughout his career.

This is the first book to survey comprehensively the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean citizen comedy.

Nabokov's Shakespeare is a comprehensive study of an important and interesting literary relationship.

The [Vagrant Trilogy] extends far beyond the timeline of devastating events, and instead shows us something greater: humanity.

Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatrical form took the stage in ancient Athens.

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

Engendering a Nation adopts a sophisticated feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England.

This book explores the notion of paternity in early modern poetry, providing close readings of the major works of the time.

For over 150 years, Irish playwrights, beginning with Dion Boucicault, have been celebrated by American audiences.

This volume, while it raises all the questions appertaining to the cultural, historical and critical contexts of the play, has as its primary focus the play as theatrical performance.

Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery.

This book begins with the malignant taunts of Robert Greene and the adulatory remarks of Christopher Marlowe's friends and literary associates, and ends with the abrasive comments of the younger G.

The authoritative guide to teaching Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Folger Guide to Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream is an invaluable resource for teachers, students, and Shakespeare fans alike.

This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the "e;tragic"e; combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts.

The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy.

The first of its kind, this volume offers the most ambitious and wide-ranging English-language history of Polish theatre to date.

The authoritative guide to teaching Shakespeare's Othello, The Folger Guide to Teaching Othello is an invaluable resource for teachers, students, and Shakespeare fans alike.

This 14-volume set contains titles originally published between 1926 and 1992.

The pervasive and unrestrained use of obscenity has long been acknowledged as a major feature of fifth-century Attic Comedy; no other Western art form relies so heavily on the sexual and scatological dimensions of language.

Schools and universities are fast becoming managerial 'courts' of learning in which educators and students are system creatures busily fulfilling system protocols.

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

Presents new scholarship on the innovative playwright Caryl Churchill, discussing her major plays alongside topics including sexual politics and terror.

A World Elsewhere is Steven Berkoff's bold attempt to describe his multifarious theatrical works.

Tristana is a novel where love, hate and power converge into a triangle of domination and frustration.

Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have emerged in the last thirty years.

Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature.

Bringing together four of the most popular and widely studied of Ben Jonson's plays, this anthology focuses on the city comedies for which Jonson is best known today: The Alchemist (edited by Elizabeth Cook), Volpone (edited by Robert N.

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.

This is the first full-length study to focus on the staging of Samuel Beckett's drama in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

The theme for Volume 74 is ''Shakespeare and Education''.