Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Patrice Ch reau (1944 - 2013) was one of France's leading directors in the theatre and on film and a major influence on Shakespearean performance.

A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours.

Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry is a verbatim reconstruction of the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry.

The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives.

I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow.

Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works.

Astyanax is thrown from the walls of Troy; Medeia kills her children as an act of vengeance against her husband; Aias reflects with sorrow on his son's inheritance, yet kills himself and leaves Eurysakes vulnerable to his enemies.

The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance.

The only collection of essays on one of Britain's Angry Young Men, this book contains discussions of most of Wesker's published plays with an emphasis on the more recent works.

Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new.

Antoine de Montchrestien's tragedies have been the object of increased critical attention over the years.

Next to Shakespeare, Ben Jonson is perhaps the most widely studied Renaissance dramatist.

An engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance.

Can you ever really trust a machine?

No one's any right to be what father is - never questioned, never answered back.

António de Almeida, autor que floreció a mediados del siglo XVII, pertenece a una parcela poco explorada de las letras ibéricas modernas, la de los escritores de nacionalidad portuguesa que se expresaron en castellano.

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

A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise.

For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries - often more so.

This book approaches Ulster Protestantism through its theatrical and cultural intersection with politics, re-establishing a forgotten history and engaging with contemporary debates.

This second edition of The Sonnets features a new introduction by Stephen Orgel.

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This book re-examines early modern musical culture to suggest how music shapes meaning in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 62 is ''Close Encounters with Shakespeare''s Text''.

The Mirror of the Worlde is an important addition to the canon of Elizabeth Tanfield Cary.

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists.

Motherhood.

This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps.

This book explores how Ovid, as the poet-philosopher of the liberty of speech, galvanized poetic innovation in English Renaissance poetry.

This second edition of The Sonnets features a new introduction by Stephen Orgel.

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What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, 'The Phoenix and Turtle'?

This Element argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy.

This second volume of the works of Anne Finch presents previously unpublished poems and letters alongside works in Finch''s authorised print volume.

This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era.

A female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them bothShakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all.

Despite the recent turn to affects and emotions in the humanities and despite the unceasing popularity of romantic and erotic love as a motif in fictional works of all genres, the subject has received surprisingly little attention in academic studies of contemporary drama.

Winner of the AEDEAN "e;Enrique Garcia Diez"e; Literature Research Award 2023Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity.

Engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century that explores how audiences responded emotionally to the performances.

A comprehensive survey of Shakespeare''s comedies examining why and how they are still relevant today.

A boy.

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century.