Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This encyclopaedic account of animals in Shakespeare's plays and poems, provides readers with a much-needed resource by which to navigate the recent outpouring of critical and historical work on the topic.

What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft?

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

Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans.

This book charts the impact of Shakespeare's works on Harold Pinter's career as a playwright.

In his detailed study of Euripides'' play, Helen, C.

This study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne.

Etonians aren't exactly noted for their grey matter, but I've always found them perfectly adjusted to society.

A Piece of My Mind "e;transforms a self-confessed case of writer's block into a continuously inventive and thought-provoking comedy"e; (Charles Spencer, London Daily News)"e;The portrait of a marriage and his strained relationship with his teenage children all seem to come straight from the heart.

This book explores the methodologies and assumptions governing answers to the question ''what did Shakespeare actually write?

Errol John wrote Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958) after becoming disillusioned about the lack of good roles for black actors on the British theatre scene.

A fascinating case for the identity of Shakespeare's beautiful young manSHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS ARE indisputably the most enigmatic and enduring love poems written in English.

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power.

This book offers a new approach to the work of the great classical author.

The first full-length study of the ways in which Shakespearean drama influenced and expanded notions of inheritance in early modern England.

Argues that diverse representations of the afterlife in the Oresteia require reevaluation of its fundamental ethical and political dilemmas.

This book is a study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare's final Roman play.

What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre?

Where did cabaret come from?

This title, first published in 1960, is intended primarily to increase the understanding of drama among those who do not have easy access to the live theatre and who, therefore, study plays mainly in print.

A comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare.

This book examines Shakespeare''s influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.

This is a study of the rich and diverse range of musical responses to Shakespeare that have taken place from the seventeenth century onwards.

I think I'd sleep a lot easier if I knew none of us would wake up tomorrow.

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

Dostoevsky uses Hamlet to address some of the most important problems in Russian culture in the second half of the 19th century.

First published in 1989, this title explores the relationship between theater and power in the English Renaissance.

This book, together with A Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The Times to members of H.

This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors .

Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to twentieth-century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world.

In an updated edition of his hugely successful student introduction to English literature from 1100 to 1500, J.

Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play Set in London's Soho in the 1980s, Cruise tells the story of what should have been Michael Spencer's last night on Earth.

'Now I am alone,' says Hamlet before speaking a soliloquy.

An alternative approach to Shakespeare''s language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters.

Shakespearean Drama, Disability, and the Filmic Stare synthesizes Laura Mulvey's male gaze and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson's stare into a new critical lens, the filmic stare, in order to understand and analyze the visual construction of disability in adaptations of Shakespearean drama.

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

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017).

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England is an annual volume committed to the publication of essays and reviews related to English drama and theatre history to 1642.

Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans.

National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland.

This major work brings together, for the first time in a single volume, all the recognized sources of Marlowe's dramatic work.

"We are not short of good playwrights in Britain, but I know of none with Nichols' power to put modern Britain on the stage and send the spectators away feeling more like members of the human race" (Irving Wardle, The Times).

Few only are the remarks absolutely needed by way of introduction to a work which within itself sufficiently explains and carries out a new method of illustration for the dramas of Shakespeare.

First Published in 1997.

A collection of thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare's playsIn Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays bound by a learned view of how to think about Shakespeare's plays and also how to write literary criticism on them.