Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Widower Hari Hobson has a successful dress-making business and three daughters.

This story the story of making the first show is our record of how uncertain, optimistic, idealistic and na ve we felt back then.

R C Sherriff s Journey s End is a syllabus text and the most famous play about World War One.

An epic play in two acts, The Siege was commissioned by the National Playwright Commissioning Group and written especially for performance in schools.

"e;My heart had broken.

Georges Feydeau, once considered as purveyor of slapstick farces, is now accepted as France s best comic dramatist since Moliere.

We are engaged in performing four shows by night and restaging four different shows by day.

One of Shakespeare s most original and eloquent plays, A Midsummer Night s Dream brilliantly interweaves four contrasting groups of characters to present a many-sided view of love in all its aspects: its joys and sadness, its idealism and selfishness, its physical and spiritual elements.

Twelfth Night is an ambiguously erotic comedy telling a twisted tale of mistaken identity, transformation and deception.

Adapted for The National Theatre by Carl Heap'The world to me is like a lasting storm'An exciting tale of shipwrecks and magic, villains and heroes, and a child's fight for survival in a foreign land.

It seems a long way from Moliere to Ray Cooney.

"A thoughtful and considered kick up the arse to conspiracy theorists and to patriarchy" – Michael Boyd, Artistic Director RSC

Cleopatra, La Pucelle, Ophelia, Shaw’s St.

In a world bound by iron laws and dead rituals, two young men are struggling to make their way: Steerpike, the renegade kitchen-boy who seduces and murders his way up the social ladder, and Titus Groan, heir to Gormenghast, who comes to threaten its very existence.

Writing Master Class is a biography of David Pownall s play, Master Class (1983), from conception to coming of age.

The Well Read Play, deepens our appreciation and enjoyment of drama.

Dr Richard Garfield has given Ursula a difficult choice.

The best-selling guide to acting Shakespeare in a new smaller and lighter handbook size.

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect 6,000 from his fiancee's dad.

The greatest plays of Terence Rattigan (1911-77) - including The Browning Version, The Deep Blue Sea, Separate Tables and The Winslow Boy - are now established classics.

A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up.

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect 6,000 from his fiancee's dad.

They were all in the pub when the explosion happened.

A groundbreaking new account of the author of The Spanish Tragedy that establishes him as a major Elizabethan dramatistThomas Kyd (15581594) was a highly regarded dramatist and the author of The Spanish Tragedy, the first revenge tragedy and the most influential Elizabethan play.

The works of William Shakespeare contain at least 400 puns on male and female genitals.

This study is about the central place of the emotional world in Beckett's writing.

Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of 'making' and 'unmaking'?

In July 2007, the School of Law at the University of Warwick hosted an international conference on 'Shakespeare and the Law'.

This study traces the response to "e;A Midsummer Night's Dream"e; from Shakespeare's day to the present, including critics from Britain, Europe and America.

This book investigates how the sexual element in Shakespeare's works is complicated and compromised by the impact of print.

Since the late Meiji period, Shakespeare has held a central place in Japanese literary culture.

Most scholarly attention on Shakespeare's vocabulary has been directed towards his enrichment of the language through borrowing words from other languages and has thus concentrated on the more learned aspects of his vocabulary.

Volumes in this series trace the course of Shakespeare criticism, play-by-play, from the earliest items of recorded criticism to the beginnings of the modern period.

More than just a book of definitions, the dictionary provides a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's portrayal of military life, tactics, and technology.

An account of the RSA Shakespeare in Schools project, which demonstrates that Shakespeare can be made accessible to students of all abilities from the age of 5 upwards.

Shakespeare in China provides English language readers with a comprehensive sense of China's past and on-going encounter with Shakespeare.

Oscar Wilde's Salome and Andre Gide's Saul have been considered critically in the traditional contexts of authorial oeuvre, biography, or "e;thought.

In this critical evaluation of the classic, the discussion focuses on the nature of the major characters, the morality of their behavior, the conclusion of the play, and the genre of a play that was listed in the First Folio as a comedy.

The Merchant of Venice has always been regarded as one of Shakespeare's most interesting plays.

In this book, Dr Ekman considers Strindberg's four "e;Chamber plays"e; of 1907: "e;Thunder in the Air"e;, "e;The Burned Site"e;,"e; The Ghost Sonata"e; and "e;The Pelican"e;.

Shakespeare's use of sexual language, imagery and erotic themes is extensive, varied, and although this is necessarily hard to establish, probably innovative at times.

Shakespeare's Theatre consolidates the author's forty years of experience in studying and staging Shakespeare's plays.

From Neil MacGregor, the acclaimed creator of A History of the World in 100 Objects and the Director of the British Museum, comes a unique, enthralling exploration of the age of William Shakespeare to accompany a new BBC Radio 4 series.

William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564 1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political mores of the time were reflected through his plays.

William Shakespeare's lifetime (1564 1616) spanned the reigns of the last of the Tudors, Elizabeth I and the first of the Stuart kings, James I and the changing times and political mores of the time were reflected through his plays.

This original analysis of contemporary British pantomime addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique interactive relationship with, and potentially transformative experience for, its audiences.

This book on Gems has a thesis or a 'backbone' which elicits the title 'Queer Mythologies'.

The standard analytical approach to teaching Shakespeare does not tend to help students understand the theatricality of the Bard's plays and can leave them with an overly dry, disconnected view of Shakespeare.