Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “heritage” reasons.

The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information.

The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information.

This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times.

This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times.

Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have emerged in the last thirty years.

The Dutch Courtesan is a riotous tragicomedy that explores the delights and perils afforded by Jacobean London.

The Dutch Courtesan is a riotous tragicomedy that explores the delights and perils afforded by Jacobean London.

Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity.

Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts.

Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts.

Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies.

Anthony Neilson is one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre.

Anthony Neilson is one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre.

Over 50 years after his first appearance on the theatre scene, Edward Bond remains a hugely significant figure in the history of modern British playwriting.

Over 50 years after his first appearance on the theatre scene, Edward Bond remains a hugely significant figure in the history of modern British playwriting.

This is a comprehensive reference guide examining the language employed by Shakespeare to represent women in the full range of his poetry and plays.

Physicians, readers and scholars have long been fascinated by Shakespeare's medical language and the presence of healers, wise women and surgeons in his work.

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.

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.

All four figures in this volume have been canonized as central to 'stage-centred' Shakespearean scholarship and stage practice.

All four figures in this volume have been canonized as central to 'stage-centred' Shakespearean scholarship and stage practice.

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.

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.

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.

This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D.

This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D.

Everyone knows the story of the star-crossed lovers but close attention to the language of the play can deepen and darken the legend.

Everyone knows the story of the star-crossed lovers but close attention to the language of the play can deepen and darken the legend.

Women Making Shakespeare presents a series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources, including interviews with directors, actors, and other performance practitioners, to explore the place (or constitutive absence) of women in the Shakespearean text and in the history of Shakespearean reception - the many ways women, working individually or in communities, have shaped and transformed the reception, performance, and teaching of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the present.

Women Making Shakespeare presents a series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources, including interviews with directors, actors, and other performance practitioners, to explore the place (or constitutive absence) of women in the Shakespearean text and in the history of Shakespearean reception - the many ways women, working individually or in communities, have shaped and transformed the reception, performance, and teaching of Shakespeare from the 17th century to the present.

One of our earliest surviving Greek tragedies, Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes is an extraordinarily rich poetic text.

One of our earliest surviving Greek tragedies, Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes is an extraordinarily rich poetic text.

These five short plays date from Brenton's early involvement in such 'shoestring' groups as Portable Theatre.

These five short plays date from Brenton's early involvement in such 'shoestring' groups as Portable Theatre.

With an A-Z of over 300 entries, Music in Shakespeare is the most comprehensive study of all the musical terms found in Shakespeare's complete works.

"Mr McDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of the 21st century" (The New Republic)

In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran.

"Mr McDonagh is destined to be one of the theatrical luminaries of the 21st century" (The New Republic)

In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island to film his documentary Man of Aran.

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.

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.

One of Shakespeare's later plays, best described as a tragi-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts.

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.

Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation.

"An impressively complete survey of the play in its cultural, theatrical, historical and political contexts.

A reissue in hardback of critic John Lahr's famous 1982 study of Noël Coward's plays"Noël Coward," said Terence Rattigan, "is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur ever again in theatre history.

Women playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama.

The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century.