Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

Explores Shakespeare''s plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

This Element addresses the topical debate on blackface, race and Othello.

The theme for Volume 73 is ''Shakespeare and the City''.

Garrett Sullivan offers a new approach to cinematic adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare at a watershed moment in British history.

This edition includes fully annotated texts of all works known or plausibly believed to be by Aphra Behn (1640-1689).

The first in-depth study of the all-boy company, Edward''s Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The first in-depth study of the all-boy company, Edward''s Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon.

This book explores thought experiments in Shakespeare and shows how experimental psychology can be found in early modern English literature.

This book explores thought experiments in Shakespeare and shows how experimental psychology can be found in early modern English literature.

Examines both theatrical and staged art photographs, demonstrating their role in fixing and unfixing Shakespearean authority.

Explores the fascinating career of Maurice E.

The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

Explores the fascinating career of Maurice E.

Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.

How and why did Victorian culture make Shakespeare into a literary deity and his work into a secular Bible?

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

Re-appraises Shakespeare''s early career, situating his writings and activities in their time, place, and cultural moment.

Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.

How and why did Victorian culture make Shakespeare into a literary deity and his work into a secular Bible?

The first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation.

Re-appraises Shakespeare''s early career, situating his writings and activities in their time, place, and cultural moment.

This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare.

This Element examines recent documentaries depicting marginalized youth who are ostensibly redeemed by their encounters with Shakespeare.

This volume offers new insight into the contextual background and literary-historical impact of Norman Mailer''s body of work.

A systematic, chronological discussion of Samuel Beckett''s interest in the works and person of Marquis de Sade.

This book explores how Ovid, as the poet-philosopher of the liberty of speech, galvanized poetic innovation in English Renaissance poetry.

This book explores how Ovid, as the poet-philosopher of the liberty of speech, galvanized poetic innovation in English Renaissance poetry.

A reassessment of Beckett''s alleged Cartesianism using the theoretical framework of extended cognition.

This volume offers new insight into the contextual background and literary-historical impact of Norman Mailer''s body of work.

Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett''s prose, drama and poetry.

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

Samuel Beckett''s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett''s prose, drama and poetry.

A short history of Shakespeare in performance, from the Restoration to the present day.

This Element focuses on the casting in productions of Shakespeare from 2017–2020.

Marathons through Shakespeare''s history plays are feats of endurance for the repertory companies performing them and the audiences attending them.

Marathons through Shakespeare''s history plays are feats of endurance for the repertory companies performing them and the audiences attending them.

A fascinating insight into court entertainment - encompassing dance, music and performance - in the age of Shakespeare.

This is the fourth and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the complete works of John Webster.

The first of its kind, this volume offers the most ambitious and wide-ranging English-language history of Polish theatre to date.

Engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century that explores how audiences responded emotionally to the performances.

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

A fascinating insight into court entertainment - encompassing dance, music and performance - in the age of Shakespeare.

A cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage offering fresh readings of canonical and lesser-known plays.

Engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century that explores how audiences responded emotionally to the performances.

The first of its kind, this volume offers the most ambitious and wide-ranging English-language history of Polish theatre to date.