Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works.

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

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Goethes-Fragmente einer Tragödie und seine Auffassung vom Tragischen" verfügbar.

"Becoming Female", the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory.

Christopher Marlowe was the most successful dramatist of his time, his untimely death cutting short a career that may well have rivalled Shakespeare's.

Inua Ellams has established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in British and international theatre.

First published in 1986, Drama in the English Classroom demonstrates the contribution of drama in an English classroom.

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays.

What is tragedy?

The turbulent decade of the 60s CE brought Rome to the brink of collapse.

Arden Student Guides: Language and Writing offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts.

The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays.

Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre.

I always wanted to be a pharmacist because I thought it would give me the chance to do patient care, but in reality I spend more time counting out pills than I do talking to people.

The late D.

Is discretion the better part of valour, or does conscience make cowards of us all?

In both feminist theory and Shakespearean criticism, questions of sexuality have consistently been conflated with questions of gender.

A collection of essays on the highly colourful life and work of August Strindberg – dramatist, novelist, autobiographer and painter.

The precise relation between the spectator and the work of art was a matter of great interest to late Renaissance and baroque artists, playwrights as well as painters.

Theatre has a funny way of getting to the heart of who we are now and particularly in the case of Connections who we are going to be.

In the earliest drama the clash between the old world of ritual and the new world of money is revealed.

The Comedy of Errors is a brilliant piece of theatrical mechanism, a story of mounting confusion involving two pairs of twins.

Stevie is 17.

A boy.

This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play.

In comedy, happy endings resolve real-world conflicts.

First published in 1985.

A revolutionary reading of Beckett''s aesthetic and philosophical interests.

From fantasy and sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board games, from blockbuster films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture.

Beau, a pianist expat living in London, meets Rufus, an eccentric young lawyer, at the dawn of the internet dating revolution.

This 2006 book addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Dramen und dramatische Szenen vor der Jahrhundertwende (1788–1799), Teil 1: Text" verfügbar.

Within the last generation, Canadian drama, like other literary forms, has seen the emergence of works by women that re-vision the role of women in history.

The first detailed analysis of the important role pollution and its counterparts - purity and purification - play in Greek tragedy.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Singer - Tzschoppe" verfügbar.

The plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries are increasingly popular thanks to a spate of recent stage and screen productions and to courses that set Shakespeare's plays in context.

The Genius and the Goddess, based on Jeffrey Meyers' long friendship with Arthur Miller and extensive archival research from Washington to Los Angeles, is a portrait of a marriage.

This book explores the central role of fathers in the plays of Shakespeare and a wide range of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama.

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays.

Peter Hyland provides a highly readable account of the historical, social and political pressures of Shakespeare's England and the material conditions under which his plays were written, including a comprehensive description of the development and status of the theatrical profession.

The Golden Age of Spanish drama extends from the close of the 15th century to the death of Calderon in 1681.

Critical investigation into the rubric of 'Shakespeare and the visual arts' has generally focused on the influence exerted by the works of Shakespeare on a number of artists, painters, and sculptors in the course of the centuries.

A study of the poetry spoken in Shakespeare''s late plays, including The Winter''s Tale.

Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante.