Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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.

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

When Shakespearean characters kiss, embrace, or shake hands, what does it mean?

There's always a pause,between the inhale and the first word.

Blasted has been labelled as one of the landmark plays of post-war British theatre, achieving its iconic status and, indeed, its notoriety, very quickly.

This book provides a critical overview of the cultural impact of the Murder, She Wrote TV series and its paratextual elements, including board and video games, podcasts, fan conventions, collectible figures, and ghostwritten novels.

The first comprehensive treatment in English of the rich and varied afterlife of classical drama across Latin America, this volume explores the myriad ways in which ancient Greek and Roman texts have been adapted, invoked and re-worked in notable modern theatrical works across North and South America and the Caribbean, while also paying particular attention to the national and local context of each play.

First published in 2002.

Aeschylus' 'Suppliants' dramatises the myth of the fifty daughters of Danaos, who flee Egypt and come to Argos as suppliants, trying to escape forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins.

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from the early texts - wide-ranging introduction discusses the play's historical contexts, political significance, characters, sources, and language - detailed stage history designed to meet the needs of students and theatre professionals - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, allusions, staging, and much else - illustrated with production photographs, historical portraits, textual facsimiles, and map - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare' Times Literary Supplement ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.

The easy way to craft, polish, and get your play on stage Getting a play written and produced is a daunting process.

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

Gothic Drama from Walpole to Shelley examines the often-overlooked realm of Gothic drama in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, arguing that it deserves equal attention to its more famous counterpart, the Gothic novel.

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Specially commissioned essays explore the life and work of Eugene O''Neill from his earliest writings to Long Day''s Journey Into Night.

The Theatre of Caryl Churchill documents and analyses the major plays and productions of one of Britain's greatest and most innovative playwrights.

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

This volume freshly illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs, practices and issues, and their representation in Shakespeare''s plays.

Seriously William, you're eighteen and you're gay, for Christ's sake.

The first comprehensive study of British and American films adapted from modern British plays.

The essential 1997 guide to one of the theatre''s most important characters, with an opening essay by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde''s grandson.

Through close readings of a wide range of plays and poems, Kiernan Ryan's compelling polemic sets out to reclaim the idea of Shakespeare's timeless universality from reactionary and radical critics alike.

Playwriting with Purpose: A Guide and Workbook for New Playwrights provides a holistic approach to playwriting from an award-winning playwright and instructor.

To what extent is theatre a contagious practice, capable of undoing and enlivening people and cultures?

Uses embedded letters to illuminate two vexed questions, the origins of Plautine comedy and the mode of Plautus'' translation.

The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare's plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts.

Shakespeare's Hamlet, regarded by many as the world's most famous play by the world's most famous writer, is one of the most complex, demanding, discussed, and influential literary texts in English.

This book is a study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare's final Roman play.

How many hit musicals are based on films that were shot in two days at a budget of $30,000?

A fascinating exploration of one of the most influential American playwrights of the contemporary stage.

Outlining a classical ''rhetorical'' system, this is the first serious overview of how European actors c.

The first volume to consider how the context of early modern biblical interpretation shaped Shakespeare''s plays.

The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero.

The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry.

The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare's late plays to the drama of the Interregnum.

Winner of the Roma Gill Prize 2015, Marlowe's Literary Scepticism re-evaluates the representation of religion in Christopher Marlowe's plays and poems, demonstrating the extent to which his literary engagement with questions of belief was shaped by the virulent polemical debates that raged in post-Reformation Europe.

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This book offers a new, accurate and actable translation of one of Euripides' most popular plays, together with a commentary which provides insight into the challenges it sets for production and suggestions for how to solve them.

Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the complex aesthetic process of "e;picturing"e; in early modern English literature.

In the course of the sixth century AD a remarkable change takes place in the form of Western literary narrative.

Rhetorical training was the central component of an elite Roman man's education, and declamations--imaginary courtroom speeches in the character of a fictional or historical individual--were the most advanced exercises in the standard rhetorical curriculum.

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