Literary studies: plays and playwrights

London is becoming an alien landscape to Sydney Stock; a man who has lived for over fifty years cooped with his mother Nell in her grubby East End home.

Terrence McNally's canon of plays, books for musicals and opera libretti possesses such a breadth of subject matter and diversity of dramatic modes that critics have had difficulty assessing his accomplishment.

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

Romantic criticism, of which Shakespeare is the central figure, invented many of the modes of modern criticism.

A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song.

This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen.

The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare--an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited afresh from all the surviving original versions of his work, and drawing on the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship.

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Passion's Fictions traces the intimate links between literature and the sciences of mind and soul from the age of Shakespeare to the rise of the novel.

There is scarcely an element of Hamlet that has not received attention many times, yet both general reader and sophisticated critic would generally agree that the character of Hamlet and the full meanings of the play remain mysteries.

For over 150 years, Irish playwrights, beginning with Dion Boucicault, have been celebrated by American audiences.

The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters is an original and timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China, and Japan.

Based on solid research and clear explanations, this book provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of 10 key facts and fictions regarding the life and works of William Shakespeare.

This book provides a thorough analysis of terpsichorean lexis in Renaissance drama.

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Ancient Greek tragedy is ubiquitously studied and researched, but is generally considered to have ended, as it began, in the fifth century BC.

A collection of essays on film adaptations of Shakespeare''s plays.

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

This original work redefines and broadens our understanding of the drama of the English-speaking African diaspora.

In this book, leading international Shakespeare scholars consider the significant characteristics of Shakespeare''s last plays and place them in their Jacobean context.

To be sane or not to be sane, that is the question and if not, then be mad and all that follows.

The Faust legend seen as a transmission of core Gnostic teachings disguised as a morality tale *; Shows the 16th-century Faust text to be a coded, composite Gnostic creation myth *; Identifies the many Hermetic, alchemical, and Tantric symbols found in Faust that signify worship of the divine feminine through sacramental sexual practices *; Reveals a mystical process of spiritual salvation, as distilled from esoteric traditions In The Gnostic Faustus, Ramona Fradon shows the legend of Doctor Faustus to be a composite Gnostic creation myth that reveals the process of spiritual salvation.

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This unique and comprehensive study reviews the practice of leading American directors of Shakespeare from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century.

This is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes' Wasps (422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive comedies.

First published in English in 1965, this book discusses the roots and development of the dumb show as a device in Elizabethan drama.

Although psychoanalytic criticism of Shakespeare is a prominent and prolific field of scholarship, the analytic methods and tools, theories, and critics who apply the theories have not been adequately assessed.

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Towards the end of her life, the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909-43) was working on a tragedy, Venice Saved.

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.

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from the early texts - wide-ranging introduction discusses the play's historical contexts, political significance, characters, sources, and language - detailed stage history designed to meet the needs of students and theatre professionals - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, allusions, staging, and much else - illustrated with production photographs, historical portraits, textual facsimiles, and map - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare' Times Literary Supplement ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe.

Updated edition of The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, introducing new voices and themes.

Acclaimed as the greatest dramatist of all time, William Shakespeare needs little introduction.

Through expert guidance on understanding, interpreting, and writing about Shakespeare's language, this book makes The Winter's Tale accessible and exciting for students.

Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies.

A companion to volume 1, Hamlet: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 2 presents key critical accounts of Hamlet from 1885-1964.

A gripping portrait of life in wartime Berlin and a vividly theatrical study of how paranoia can warp a society gripped by the fear of the night-time knock on the door.

Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes' comedies.

First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslin's earlier writings on Samuel Beckett and Bertolt Brecht.

An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter's Tale through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history, and new interpretations.

This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter.