Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Beckett''s Political Imagination uncovers Beckett''s lifelong engagement with political thought and political history.

Beckett''s Political Imagination uncovers Beckett''s lifelong engagement with political thought and political history.

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production.

The first comprehensive study of how Shakespeare designed his plays to suit his playing company.

Shakespeare for Freedom shows why Shakespeare has mattered for four hundred years, and why he still matters today.

This volume provides up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions of Shakespeare''s plays, as well as critical reviews of older canonical films.

Shakespeare for Freedom shows why Shakespeare has mattered for four hundred years, and why he still matters today.

This volume provides up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions of Shakespeare''s plays, as well as critical reviews of older canonical films.

Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.

Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.

This book studies the varied political uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic rhetoric in a wide range of seventeenth-century English drama.

This book studies the varied political uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic rhetoric in a wide range of seventeenth-century English drama.

This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

This book examines the two-way influence between Shakespeare and his company''s main competitors in the 1590s, the Admiral''s Men.

The first history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of Modern Greece, marked by significant discontinuities.

This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

This book examines the two-way influence between Shakespeare and his company''s main competitors in the 1590s, the Admiral''s Men.

The first history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of Modern Greece, marked by significant discontinuities.

Offers a completely new introduction, with a particular emphasis on the play''s afterlife in global performance and adaptation.

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

This book presents a new argument that reimagines modern theater''s critical power and places innovative writing at the heart of the experimental stage.

This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child.

This book reveals the close connections between education and the stage in early modern England by looking at the child.

This book explores the words, forms, and styles Shakespeare used to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England.

This book explores the words, forms, and styles Shakespeare used to interact with the verbal marketplace of early modern England.

Shows how illustrated editions and paintings of the plays were originally produced and read as critical, social and political statements.

Brings ''new formalist'' approaches to Chaucer, focusing on formal agency, bodies, disability, ethics, poetics, reception, and scale.

This book uses computational methods and statistical analysis to challenge traditional assumptions about the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

This book uses computational methods and statistical analysis to challenge traditional assumptions about the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

This book asks what Shakespeare''s contemporary audiences read and how their reading shaped their reception of his work.

This book asks what Shakespeare''s contemporary audiences read and how their reading shaped their reception of his work.

Sarah Dustagheer offers the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the performance conditions of the Globe and the Blackfriars Theatres.

Sarah Dustagheer offers the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the performance conditions of the Globe and the Blackfriars Theatres.

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England examines the emotional effect of stage performance on the minds of the early modern theatre audience.

Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the ever-popular stage clown shaped early modern playhouse theatre.

Healy demonstrates how Renaissance alchemy shaped Shakespeare''s bawdy but spiritual sonnets, transforming our understanding of Shakespeare''s art and beliefs.

A comprehensive survey of Shakespeare''s comedies examining why and how they are still relevant today.

This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information.

Reissued with an essay on Macbeth this is a collection of essays on Shakespeare''s tragedies.

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England examines the emotional effect of stage performance on the minds of the early modern theatre audience.

Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the ever-popular stage clown shaped early modern playhouse theatre.

Healy demonstrates how Renaissance alchemy shaped Shakespeare''s bawdy but spiritual sonnets, transforming our understanding of Shakespeare''s art and beliefs.

Reissued with an essay on Macbeth this is a collection of essays on Shakespeare''s tragedies.

Susan Wiseman analyses mythical and natural creatures in English Renaissance writing, including Shakespeare''s A Midsummer Night''s Dream and The Tempest.

Contesting the notion of Shakespeare as originator, Clare demonstrates how Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.

Morash and Richards present an original approach to understanding how theatre has produced distinctively Irish senses of space and place.

Through short, provocative readings of unfamiliar plays, this book provides the first ever history of the canon of Renaissance drama.

A stimulating introduction to the drama of the early modern era, through a focus on commercial playhouses and their repertoires.

First scholarly edition of Samuel Richardson''s correspondence with Aaron Hill, Richardson''s closest literary adviser for many years, and his daughters.