Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Walking in Shakespeares Shoesproposes and explores a practical, historical, and culturally-relevant approach to teaching Shakespeare, situating the plays and sonnets in a tumultuous early modern world.

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.

Grenfell: System Failure asks further vital questions raised by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry since the critically acclaimed 2021 play Grenfell: Value Engineering.

Grenfell: System Failure asks further vital questions raised by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry since the critically acclaimed 2021 play Grenfell: Value Engineering.

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.

This book examines the work of acclaimed director Tina Packer, founder of Shakespeare & Company, whose ground-breaking approach to performing Shakespeare has made her company among the most vibrant and enduring Shakespeare theatres in America.

The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre, and performance, Oil and Modern World Dramas is a pioneering volume in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures, and the more established field of World Literatures.

Classical Greek Tragedy offers a comprehensive survey of the development of classical Greek tragedy combined with close readings of exemplary texts.

Shortlisted for Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2023Finalist for Most Promising New Playwright at the Offies Awards 2024Look, gang, what we need to keep sight of is, this isn't about us.

Shortlisted for Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2023Finalist for Most Promising New Playwright at the Offies Awards 2024Look, gang, what we need to keep sight of is, this isn't about us.

What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama?

In Mapping the Translator: A Study of Liang Shiqiu, the writer studies Liang Shiqiu (1903-1987), who was not only a famous writer and important critic but also one of the most prominent translators in China in the 20th century, most notably the first Chinese to finish a translation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

In Mapping the Translator: A Study of Liang Shiqiu, the writer studies Liang Shiqiu (1903-1987), who was not only a famous writer and important critic but also one of the most prominent translators in China in the 20th century, most notably the first Chinese to finish a translation of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare.

Ladies, Gentlemen, and then all the legends that have realised gender is a trap introducing the Sound of the Underground.

Ladies, Gentlemen, and then all the legends that have realised gender is a trap introducing the Sound of the Underground.

Sometimes you surprise people into being better than they are.

Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsion is one of Shakespeare's central dramatic concerns.

Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsion is one of Shakespeare's central dramatic concerns.

THE TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThis book charts the personal and professional journey of Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2012 until 2022 and "e;one of the great Shakespearians of his generation"e; (Sunday Times).

THE TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThis book charts the personal and professional journey of Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 2012 until 2022 and "e;one of the great Shakespearians of his generation"e; (Sunday Times).

Multiple award-winning Mark O'Halloran is one of Ireland's most celebrated writers.

Multiple award-winning Mark O'Halloran is one of Ireland's most celebrated writers.

The definitive guide to the historical tumult and complex intellectual worlds that Chekhov both inhabited and influenced.

First published in 1979, Irish Identity and the Literary Revival, through the works of W.

First published in 1979, Irish Identity and the Literary Revival, through the works of W.

Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a 'crime of passion' - indicatively, wife-killing.

In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love.

Winner of the 2021 Alfred Fagon AwardIt's a play, a performance, a ritual, about human farming, farming humans, soil and the soul, seeds and cells.

Studying Shakespeare in the high school classroom can and sometimes should begin with images and film.

If I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because I'm just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like.

If I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because I'm just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like.

'Witty and scholarly'JONATHAN BATE, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling'GUARDIAN'Illuminating .

Events in the world today appear to be increasingly uncontrollable and unknowable.

Events in the world today appear to be increasingly uncontrollable and unknowable.

I'm his mother.

I'm his mother.

Text and Performance in Contemporary British Theatre interrogates the paradoxical nature of theatre texts, which have been understood both as separate literary objects in their own right and as material for performance.

Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century.

Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century.

Sarah Kane was one of the landmark playwrights of 1990s Britain, her influence being felt across UK and European theatre.

Sarah Kane was one of the landmark playwrights of 1990s Britain, her influence being felt across UK and European theatre.

From the author of Into the Forest, a moving novel about memory, Shakespeare's green worlds, and the power of reconciliation.

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.

Staging Violence Against Women and Girls brings together three contemporary plays that denounce gendered violence, along with interviews with their creators and the practitioners who have staged them in different national contexts.

Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews embarking on an arranged marriage, despite barely knowing each other.

What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama?

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.

Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews embarking on an arranged marriage, despite barely knowing each other.

The first book on Restoration Shakespeare in performance, drawing on theatre history, musicology and literary criticism.

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century.