Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This study explores the structure of psychological, social and political exchanges that were negotiated between audiences and plays in Elizabethan public theatres in a period ostensibly dominated by Shakespeare, but strongly rooted in Marlowe.

Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India brings together essays written by academicians and scholars from India to scrutinize how global modernities have been shaped since World War II, from the Indian perspective.

Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield analyses the contiguous development of common law and poetic drama during the first decade of Jacobean rule.

Through an examination of five plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield analyses the contiguous development of common law and poetic drama during the first decade of Jacobean rule.

'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful .

South Asian Disability and Deaf Theatres investigates translocal intimacies in relation to twenty-first-century transnational South Asian disability theatres in order to lay out new possibilities for accessible theatres.

Opening up a new window to see Shakespeare's words in a different light and gathering his intentions in a simple, clear way, this book presents the Cue Scripts from the Comedies in Shakespeare's First Folio.

Presenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture.

Presenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture.

Tennessee Williams's America is the first full-length study of homes, families, and familial exile in the plays of Tennessee Williams.

In Networking Print in Shakespeare's England, Blaine Greteman uses new analytical tools to examine early English print networks and the systemic changes that reshaped early modern literature, thought, and politics.

This book is about a mad king and a mad duke.

For all that we love and admire Shakespeare, he is not that easy to grasp.

This timely and expansive biography of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian writer, Nobel laureate, and social activist, shows how the author's early years influence his life's work and how his writing, in turn, informs his political engagement.

The life of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was tormented by physical and mental illnesses.

The life of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was tormented by physical and mental illnesses.

The essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of Samuel Beckett's major works in the context of his international presence and circulation, particularly the translation, adaptation, appropriation and cultural reciprocation of his oeuvre.

In The Sound of Nonsense, Richard Elliott highlights the importance of sound in understanding the 'nonsense' of writers such as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, James Joyce and Mervyn Peake, before connecting this noisy writing to works which engage more directly with sound, including sound poetry, experimental music and pop.

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) is Spain's most famous author, primarily because of his celebrated novel Don Quixote.

In 1616, William Shakespeare shuffled loose the mortal coil.

The Play's the Thing: The Theatrical Collaboration of Clark Bowlen and KathleenKeena, 1988-2012Kathleen KeenaiUniverse, 187 pages, (paperback) $17.

Dorothy Parker holds a place in history as one of New Yorks most beloved writers.

The "e;Dark Side of Shakespeare"e; trilogy by W.

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Here is a book to hearten playgoers, stimulate young actors, lead theatrical executives to reconsider methods of management, and encourage benefactors to open their wallets.

This is the first book to survey comprehensively the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean citizen comedy.

This is the first book to survey comprehensively the field of Elizabethan and Jacobean citizen comedy.

This is a study of particular aspects of particular works in a particular context.

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 volume is a biography of the dramas of John Galt, a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and social and political commentator.

The dramatic traditions and conventions available to Shakespeare at the time he wrote King Lear were so rich and varied as to constitute an extremely resonant and complex vocabulary, one that Shakespeare fully utilized to shape his audience's response and to create the unique world of this play.

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

Of irony as a figure of speech we are commonly aware: it is an everyday conversational weapon.

The best of modern American drama is represented in the seventeen essays of this collection.

A historical drama about the days immediately before Confederation when Sir John A.

Not much remained to be said about Racine as a dramatic artist, but as one brought up to consider Shakespeare as the model of tragedy, the author brings a fresh approach to a dramatist who has been to a great extent a Gallic monopoly.

Leading Shakespeare scholars from around the world gathered at the First World Shakespeare Congress held in Vancouver in August 1971.

A number of striking parallels link the lives and careers of Machiavelli and Kleist.

The idea that the world is a theatre in which each individual human being plays out the part assigned to him by God, who is both the playwright and the producer of the drama of life, was one of the great commonplaces of the Renaissance and one to which Shakespeare alluded frequently.

"e;I am talking about Milton because I enjoy talking about Milton,"e; This statement made by Northrop Frye at the beginning of The Return of Eden sets the tone for the entire book.

"e;What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?

"e;What is the most wonderful thing about teaching this play in our classrooms?

The sixteenth century was a turning point for both law and drama.

The sixteenth century was a turning point for both law and drama.

To entertain an idea is to take it in, pay attention to it, give it breathing room, dwell with it for a time.

Adoption allows families to modify, either overtly or covertly, what is considered to be the natural order.

Adoption allows families to modify, either overtly or covertly, what is considered to be the natural order.

Poetry on Stage focuses on exchanges between the writers of the Italian neo-avant-garde with the actors, directors, and playwrights of the Nuovo Teatro.

The Dramaturgy of the Spectator explores how Italian theatre consciously adjusted to the emergence of a new kind of spectator who became central to society, politics, and culture in the mid-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.