Literary studies: plays and playwrights

In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a strong claim for it as a remarkable work, revealing a confidence and sureness that very few earlier plays can rival.

King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism.

This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2 as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the English renaissance theatre, with its exploration of power politics and social revolution and its focus on the relationship between divine justice and sin.

A fresh look at a play usually regarded as the first component of a three-part historical epic, this edition argues that Henry VI Part 1 is a 'prequel', a freestanding piece that returns for ironic and dramatic effect to a story already familiar to its audience.

Distinguished editor T.

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is.

This edition of one of Shakespeare's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a radical departure from contemporary practice, combining fast action and immediacy with compelling rhetorical language, and finding a clear context for its study of tyranny in the last decade of the reign of Elizabeth 1.

This volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and the Folio Text of 1623, modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard.

The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition.

On December 1727 an intriguing play called Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers was presented for production by Lewis Theobald, who had it published in January 1728 after a successful run at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London.

With its explorations of sexual ambivalence, As You Like It speaks directly to the twenty-first century.

John Wilders - literary advisor to the BBC TV Shakespeare series - brings thorough scholarship and a practical understanding of performance needs to this new edition.

Two bold new dramas from the author of Shopping & F***ingThe CutPaul is an ordinary man with a shocking secret.

Marlowe's play retains its power to shock even today, and this editiongives full value to its three overriding themes of sexual favouritism,political confrontation and sheer cruelty.

Marlowe's play retains its power to shock even today, and this editiongives full value to its three overriding themes of sexual favouritism,political confrontation and sheer cruelty.

'[A] deeply considered and stimulating book, informed throughout by the author's intimate knowledge of the literature and society of Shakespeare's age.

The Duchess of Malfi is one of the major tragedies of theearly modern period and remains popular in the theatre as well as inthe classroom.

Everyman and Mankind are morality plays which mark the turn of the medieval period to the early modern, with their focus on the individual.

Philaster is a tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher which has much in common with Shakespeare's late plays such as The Winter's Tale.

A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare s plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole.

This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare s sonnets.

The extended second edition of this inspiring introduction to Shakespeare offers readers more insights into what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works.

A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance provides a state-of-the-art engagement with the rapidly developing field of Shakespeare performance studies.

A COMPANION TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA Contributors to this volume: Thomas P.

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

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

First published to critical acclaim in 1989, this book is now recognised as one of the most original and influential critical studies of Shakespeare to have appeared in recent times.

We all know that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works of Shakespeare.

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.

In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C.

Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do.

Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'.

Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'.

Though he is one of the undisputed giants of English literature, Ben Jonson is known to most people only as the author of one or two masterly plays which regularly appear in the drama repertory.

Though he is one of the undisputed giants of English literature, Ben Jonson is known to most people only as the author of one or two masterly plays which regularly appear in the drama repertory.

The extraordinary character of Ben Jonson has only recently been brought into the light.

The extraordinary character of Ben Jonson has only recently been brought into the light.

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre.

In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre.

The first decade of the Jacobean age witnessed a sudden profusion of comedies satirizing city life; among these were comedies by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, as well as the bulk of the repertory of the newly-established children's companies at Blackfriars and Paul's.

The first decade of the Jacobean age witnessed a sudden profusion of comedies satirizing city life; among these were comedies by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, as well as the bulk of the repertory of the newly-established children's companies at Blackfriars and Paul's.

First published in 1915, this book presents a dramatization of part ofthe author's The Light of Asia.

First published in 1915, this book presents a dramatization of part ofthe author's The Light of Asia.

'The Woods are just Trees.

'The Woods are just Trees.

What would I do if I met him?

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.

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.

Henry Fielding is most well-known for his monumental novel Tom Jones.