Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Illuminates the ways Shakespeare''s works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about war in all its complexity.

An original exploration of Ancient Greek conceptions of the relationship between memory, time, knowledge and identity across diverse genres.

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides?

Explores the influence of the Faust legend on drama and film from the sixteenth century to the contemporary era.

Showcases cutting-edge research into this most famous tradition of European theatre, presented in English for the first time.

Offers a new introduction and commentary notes designed for the student reader, an updated reading list, appendices and extensive illustrations.

Argues that the Exclusion Crisis of 1678–82 should be considered the watershed moment in Shakespeare''s authorial afterlife.

This book demonstrates how the book trade of 1640–1740 canonised Shakespeare by selling, editing and promoting his plays and poems.

The definitive text on the social, intellectual and theatrical conditions within which Molière operated and his subsequent impact worldwide.

Illuminates the pleasures and challenges of Shakespeare''s complex language for today''s students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers.

Examining theatrical bodies, the spaces inhabited by actors and audiences, and the texts that circulate around and between them.

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of ''true'' Englishness in his early plays.

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare''s Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht''s significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century.

The first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett''s prose and theatre.

First dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare''s texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced.

Uncovers the importance of popular literature in promoting and shaping medieval nostalgia in early modern England.

Examines Christopher Marlowe and his work in the overlapping contexts of the professional theatre and the book trade.

Linking ecstasy with art and liberty, the book advances understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the humanities today.

Challenges canonical accounts with writings and critical perspectives that emphasize the social complexity and cultural multiplicity of Caribbean writings.

Explores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht''s significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential playwright of the twentieth century.

Explores the influence of the Faust legend on drama and film from the sixteenth century to the contemporary era.

Provides a comprehensive critical engagement with Roman comedy and its reception presented by leading international scholars in accessible and up-to-date chapters.

Uncovers the importance of popular literature in promoting and shaping medieval nostalgia in early modern England.

Up-to-date edition of one of Euripides'' most appealing plays, exploring language, style, meter, dramatic technique, myth, religion, politics, and society.

Recounts and reflects on Shakespeare''s Globe''s experiment with original pronunciation.

Claims that Shakespeare resists an emergent, exclusionary post-reformation ideology of ''true'' Englishness in his early plays.

Illuminates the pleasures and challenges of Shakespeare''s complex language for today''s students, teachers, actors and theatre-goers.

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

A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable.

Demonstrates how Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of Stoicism as performance, rather than intellectual doctrine.

Provides an historical overview of women''s mythmaking and thus their contributions to, and an alternative genealogy of, modern Irish theatre.

Demonstrates how Much Ado about Nothing models an understanding of Stoicism as performance, rather than intellectual doctrine.

Provides an historical overview of women''s mythmaking and thus their contributions to, and an alternative genealogy of, modern Irish theatre.

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare''s Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable.

Discusses the most recent advances in the Beckett field and the new methods used to approach it.

Features a new introductory section on the latest scholarly trends, performance and adaptation practices.

Reveals how England''s eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.

A lively and accessible account of the most popular form of nineteenth-century English theatre, and its continuing influence today.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Reveals how England''s eighteenth-century theatre dramatized anti-imperial protest, and gave voice to oppressed groups.

The 72nd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

Argues that the songs of Pindar and Aeschylus share a "theatrical" spirit that illuminates choral performance in Classical Greece.

Detailed study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage.

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

Challenges canonical accounts with writings and critical perspectives that emphasize the social complexity and cultural multiplicity of Caribbean writings.