Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This volume of essays contributes to current debates about Shakespeare in new media.

See in my opinion there are two types of people in the world.

See in my opinion there are two types of people in the world.

Playwriting is a skill under-explored in the classroom, despite the strong evidence that it's an engaging and rewarding activity for young people.

Addressing the questions central to any playwright's career and identity, Jon Klein offers you a glimpse into a career writing for the theatre.

Addressing the questions central to any playwright's career and identity, Jon Klein offers you a glimpse into a career writing for the theatre.

This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations.

This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations.

Shakespeare and the Gods examines Shakespeare's many allusions to six classical gods (Jupiter, Diana, Venus, Mars, Hercules and Ceres) that enhance his readers' and audiences' understanding and enjoyment of his work.

Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.

Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.

The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet.

The Revenger's Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet.

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays.

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays.

A scandal half-stifled is worse than a scandal.

A scandal half-stifled is worse than a scandal.

I drank three glasses of scotch and ginger ale before we'd even cleared Coney Island.

I drank three glasses of scotch and ginger ale before we'd even cleared Coney Island.

Shakespeare's Sonnets both generate and demonstrate many of today's most pressing debates about Shakespeare and poetry.

Shakespeare's Sonnets both generate and demonstrate many of today's most pressing debates about Shakespeare and poetry.

This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights.

This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights.

Trees don't have ears.

Trees don't have ears.

The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays.

The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays.

Some poems are better written in flesh .

Some poems are better written in flesh .

Observed by a lone, mystified Aboriginal Australian, the first convict ship arrives in Botany Bay, 1788, crammed with England's outcasts.

Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences brings together the voices of those who make productions of Shakespeare come to life.

Patrice Ch reau (1944 - 2013) was one of France's leading directors in the theatre and on film and a major influence on Shakespearean performance.

Patrice Ch reau (1944 - 2013) was one of France's leading directors in the theatre and on film and a major influence on Shakespearean performance.

This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication.

This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication.

A new collection of the latest plays from the writer of Beautiful Thing and TV's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme"e;JONATHAN HARVEY has an athletic and fantastical imagination, bawdy, funny and joyously blasphemous"e; Sunday TimesGUIDING STAR: "e;Dry, funny, truthful, the writing buzzes with graceful perception and Scouse sarcasm.

A new collection of the latest plays from the writer of Beautiful Thing and TV's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme"e;JONATHAN HARVEY has an athletic and fantastical imagination, bawdy, funny and joyously blasphemous"e; Sunday TimesGUIDING STAR: "e;Dry, funny, truthful, the writing buzzes with graceful perception and Scouse sarcasm.

Here we are nibbling away all day and night, Mrs Dacey.

Here we are nibbling away all day and night, Mrs Dacey.

Mastering the Shakespeare Audition is a handbook for actors of all ages and experience, whether auditioning for a professional role or a place in drama school.

Its government has declared a vicious class war.

Its government has declared a vicious class war.

I kept telling myself I wanted something more out of my life, something brighter.

I slip into Thandi's bed in the night.

I slip into Thandi's bed in the night.

Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global culture – much more than has been remembered.

I can tell the difference between who I am and a side effect.

I can tell the difference between who I am and a side effect.

Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores the senses in his literary craft, his fictional worlds, and his stagecraft.