Literary studies: plays and playwrights

This book explores key topics in the interpretation of the tragedies of the fifth-century BCE Athenian poet Euripides.

Why should we bother with Shakespeare today?

This book studies the Shakespearean history play, examining the work of the Queen''s Men and their influence on Shakespeare.

This book provides a reassessment of the relationship between Reformed theology and early modern literature, with analysis of key writers and thinkers.

Using fresh print and manuscript evidence, this book provides a new reading of playscripts in the Shakespearean period.

This book argues that the comic plays of Plautus and Terence are sophisticated literary works requiring close attention from the reader.

This book analyses how the outrage caused by controversial plays or productions reflects the moral standards of the time.

Leading literary scholars and historians examine Shakespeare''s engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought.

Using computer analysis, this book confronts the main unsolved mysteries of authorship in Shakespeare''s canon, providing some surprising conclusions.

This book examines Shakespeare''s plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning.

This wide-ranging study investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period.

Placing Holocaust drama in its historical and cultural contexts, this book provides thorough analyses of over thirty seminal Holocaust plays.

Examines a variety of plays between 1550–1600 to demonstrate how they asserted ideas and ideals of ''Englishness'' for audiences.

In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf provides a sustained challenge to the prevailing view that Sophocles is an opponent of rationalism.

This book considers how Ben Jonson threaded his political views into the various literary genres in which he wrote.

This book examines how Shakespeare was influenced by descendants of the historical figures in his early histories.

This book analyses early modern attitudes to tolerance, including religion, race, humour and sexuality, as they occur in Shakespeare''s poems and plays.

This book demonstrates the artful means by which Shakespeare responded to the competing claims of acting and writing in the Elizabethan era.

This book examines the way work was depicted on the English stage by Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

An examination of the interaction of love and service in Shakespeare''s poems and plays.

This book takes a fresh look at mistaken identity in the work of the Greek playwright Menander.

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

A lively introduction to Shakespeare''s language, creating a greater appreciation of his linguistic creativity.

A study of one of Ireland''s most celebrated playwrights, Brian Friel.

An account of Shakespeare''s last plays in relation to the idea of ''late style''.

An eloquent and accessible introduction to one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.

A 2007 collection of essays on the subject of the relationship between Shakespeare, children and childhood.

A study of the topic of friendship in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

This 2006 book addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language.

An accessible 2007 introduction to Shakespeare''s tragedies, including full chapters on Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear.

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

An insightful study of Arthur Miller''s work.

A revolutionary reading of Beckett''s aesthetic and philosophical interests.

This book investigates the theme of the lost voice of truth and justice in four plays by Euripides.

A study of the poetry spoken in Shakespeare''s late plays, including The Winter''s Tale.

Jennifer Panek examines the early modern character of the lusty widow in her cultural context.

This book features a selection of the best essays from the last forty years on Shakespeare''s use of language.

Newly commissioned essays explore the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre.

Specially commissioned essays explore the life and work of Eugene O''Neill from his earliest writings to Long Day''s Journey Into Night.

This collection covers the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas to contemporary Dublin theatre festivals.

A collection of specially written essays offering a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists working today.

This book, first published in 1994, provides thirteen essays on every aspect of the work of Samuel Beckett.

This lively Companion examines the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare''s plays.

In this 2004 book, Sarah Hatchuel analyses how Shakespearean plays are transformed when they are directed for the screen.

This book demonstrates that the classics are of central importance in Shakespeare''s plays and in the structure of his imagination.

The story of how and why Shakespeare became a hero of American popular culture.

A comprehensive collection of data on late medieval and Tudor interlude drama.

This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus'' Oresteia, one of the most important of all Greek dramas.

This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer.

This book explores the complex questions about divinity and human values examined in Euripides'' Heracles.