Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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

The twenty-eight essays of this collection, first published in 1962, are the work of distinguished British, Canadian, and American scholars.

The twenty-eight essays of this collection, first published in 1962, are the work of distinguished British, Canadian, and American scholars.

This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance.

This book investigates the complex interactions, through experiencing drama, of readers and audiences in the English Renaissance.

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love, and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's controversial adaptation of Thomas Otway's Venice Presever'd in October 1795.

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love, and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's controversial adaptation of Thomas Otway's Venice Presever'd in October 1795.

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.

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.

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Plays of Samuel Taylor Coleridge" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

Let down by the uncertainties of memory, language, and their own family units, the characters in Harold Pinter's plays endure persistent struggles to establish their own identities.

Let down by the uncertainties of memory, language, and their own family units, the characters in Harold Pinter's plays endure persistent struggles to establish their own identities.

First published in 1969, provides a helpful introduction to the study of Absurdist writing and drama in the first half of the twentieth century.

First published in 1969, provides a helpful introduction to the study of Absurdist writing and drama in the first half of the twentieth century.

First published in 1973, this book explores the genre of melodrama.

First published in 1973, this book explores the genre of melodrama.

Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent's society and culture, and whose work is still in dialogue with Europe today.

Contemporary European Playwrights presents and discusses a range of key writers that have radically reshaped European theatre by finding new ways to express the changing nature of the continent's society and culture, and whose work is still in dialogue with Europe today.

Tragedy is a genre for exploring loss and suffering, and this book traces the vital areas where tragedy has shaped and been a resource for Christian theology.

Tragedy is a genre for exploring loss and suffering, and this book traces the vital areas where tragedy has shaped and been a resource for Christian theology.

Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre.

Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre.

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"e;Everything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls"e; - 4.

"e;Everything passes/Everything perishes/Everything palls"e; - 4.

In her first collection of plays, Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's talent for writing complex female characters is on dazzling display.

Alienation (Vefremdung) is a concept inextricably linked with the name of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht - with modernism, the avant-garde and Marxist theory.

Alienation (Vefremdung) is a concept inextricably linked with the name of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht - with modernism, the avant-garde and Marxist theory.

Helene Cixous (1937-), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect.

Helene Cixous (1937-), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect.

The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theatre.

The sixteenth century was an exciting period in the history of European theatre.

Alongside Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park, Beneatha's Place imagines a life for Lorraine Hansberry's characters from A Raisin in the Sun beyond the confines of her play.

A modern-day Taming of the Shrew that concludes at a high school prom.

A modern-day Taming of the Shrew that concludes at a high school prom.

"e;One of the most exciting and original books about Shakespeare that I've read in years.

This collection reconsiders Milton's engagement with Greek texts, with particular attention to the theological and theatrical meanings attached to Greek in the early modern period.

This collection reconsiders Milton's engagement with Greek texts, with particular attention to the theological and theatrical meanings attached to Greek in the early modern period.

New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms of performance that have emerged in the 21st Century.

New Theatre in Italy 1963-2013 makes the case for the centrality of late-millennium Italian avant-garde theatre in the development of the new forms of performance that have emerged in the 21st Century.

Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wilde's public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing.

Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wilde's public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing.

"e;Alexis Piron (1689-1773) was one of the most renowned humorists of eighteenth-century France, his rapier wit feared even by Voltaire.

"e;Alexis Piron (1689-1773) was one of the most renowned humorists of eighteenth-century France, his rapier wit feared even by Voltaire.

"e;Emerging in Italy in the mid-sixteenth century, pastoral drama is one of the most characteristic genres of its time.

"e;Emerging in Italy in the mid-sixteenth century, pastoral drama is one of the most characteristic genres of its time.

"e;Amy Wygant reads Racine's "e;"e;Phedre"e;"e; (1677) through an analysis of its 17th-century cultural contexts and a consideration of its subsequent reception history.

"e;Amy Wygant reads Racine's "e;"e;Phedre"e;"e; (1677) through an analysis of its 17th-century cultural contexts and a consideration of its subsequent reception history.

"e;This work takes gender as its point of entry into the comedies of Carlo Goldoni (1707-93).