Literary studies: plays and playwrights

The Advent of Pluralism explores how the philosophical position of pluralism - the idea, made famous by Isaiah Berlin, that values and moral codes can and will come into conflict with one another - has clear and important roots in the Classical Greek world.

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The Masters of the Revels and Elizabeth I's Court Theatre places the Revels Office and Elizabeth I's court theatre in a pre-modern, patronage and gift-exchange driven-world of centralized power in which hospitality, liberality, and conspicuous display were fundamental aspects of social life.

Shakespeare's plays have long been open to reimagining and reinterpretation, from John Fletcher's riposte to The Taming of the Shrew in 1611 to present day spin-offs in a whole range of media, including YouTube videos and Manga comics.

This book explores collaboration, theatre practice, and Shakespeare''s canon by analysing the evidence of manuscripts used in early modern playhouses.

This book critically examines how a Hero is made, sustained, and even deformed, in contemporary cultures.

Two plays made up of ten short stories that bring together the wild imaginations of school children with major writers from the North East of England.

A showcase of innovative, global, collaborative Shakespeare education projects between institutions, educators, practitioners and students.

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

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

Stages of Loss supplies an original and deeply researched account of travel and festivity in early modern Europe, complicating, revising, and sometimes entirely rewriting received accounts of the emergence and development of professional theatre.

Shakespeare and the Gods examines Shakespeare's many allusions to six classical gods (Jupiter, Diana, Venus, Mars, Hercules and Ceres) that enhance his readers' and audiences' understanding and enjoyment of his work.

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

Country House, a 'comedy with corpses,' is a wicked subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously.

The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as the now iconic Monster claims in its credits to be 'Adapted from the play by Peggy Webling'.

Playing the Martyr is a book about the interplay between theater and religion in early modern France.

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

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Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'.

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

'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history.

With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation.

I thought everything would change, after the war.

A collection of new and specially commissioned essays by an eminent team of Shakespeare scholars, focusing on the particular issues relating to the editing of Shakespeare and other Renaissance texts.

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

This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play.

Tennessee Williams' characters set the stage for their own dramas.

This book offers a collection of essays on Shakespeare''s life and works in popular forms and media.

The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive impact on the development of English Renaissance drama.

Estudio comparado de los personajes de La cisma de Ingalaterra de Calderón y Henry VIII de Shakespeare que indaga cómo funciona la representación de la libertad, núcleo del conflicto dramático en ambas obras teatrales.

Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape.

Oscar Wilde''s imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.

Despite the widespread popular sense that the Bible and the works of Shakespeare are the two great pillars of English culture, and despite the long-standing critical recognition that the Bible was a major source of Shakespeare's allusions and references, there has never been a full-length, critical study of the Bible in Shakespeare's plays.

Measure for Measure generates much debate and is strikingly modern.

Precarious spectatorship is about the relationship between emergencies and the spectator.

Branding Oscar Wilde traces the development and perception of Wilde's public persona and examines the impact of interpretations of his writing.

You're between two fires They're very warm sometimes.

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

From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century.

Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness?

An introduction to Shakespeare's I Henry IV - introducing its critical and performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play.

This unique and comprehensive study examines how music affects Shakespeare's plays and addresses the ways in which contemporary audiences responded to it.

The Art of Writing Drama is an indispensable textbook for wherever writing for the stage is taught, but also serves as a foundational book for any student taking courses in performance media - radio, television and film.

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation of Greek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings of Greek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism.