Classic and pre-20th century plays

The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception (and adaptation) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises.

A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

Can reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare contribute to the health of the planet?

Shakespeare against the background of his times, his world of the theatre and his dramatic development through the last years of Elizabeth's reign.

Diese Studien zu Friedrich Schiller, die hier erstmals zusammengefasst vorgelegt werden, gehen der Buchstäblichkeit seiner Texte in der Deutung auf den Grund, sie dokumentieren die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit einem Werk, dem in der europäischen Literaturgeschichte nur wenig Vergleichbares an die Seite zu stellen ist.

A remarkable resurgence of interest has taken place over recent years in a biographical approach to the work of early modern poets and dramatists, in particular to the plays and poems of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson.

El presente volumen ofrece al lector el estudio y la edición crítica de La aurora en Copacabana, la única comedia de tema americano que conservamos de Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world.

Hamlet on the Couch weaves a close reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet with a large variety of contemporary psychoanalytic and psychological theory, looking at the interplay of ideas between the two.

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues.

In this study, the author offers new interpretations of Shakespeare's works in the context of two major contemporary notions of collectivity: the crowd and rumour.

In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry; in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna.

Troja ist gefallen, alle Männer erschlagen und ihre Frauen auf dem Weg in die Sklaverei.

Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary.

This fascinating title, first published in 1922, presents a detailed overview of the life and works of Shakespeare.

Giordano Bruno's visit to Elizabethan England in the 1580s left its imprint on many fields of contemporary culture, ranging from the newly-developing science, the philosophy of knowledge and language, to the extraordinary flowering of Elizabethan poetry and drama.

For its eighteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time, across the whole spectrum of his literary output.

Rome was tantamount to its ruins, a dismembered body, to the eyes of those - Italians and foreigners - who visited the city in the years prior to or encompassing the lengthy span of the Renaissance.

An absorbing and original addition to Shakespeareana, this handbook of production is for all lovers of Shakespeare whether producer, player, scholar or spectator.

Even for scholars who have devoted their careers to the early modern theatre, the name John Lowin may not instantly evoke recognition-until now, the actor's life and contribution to the theatre of the period has never been the subject of a full-length publication.

The use of Italian culture in the Jacobean theatre was never an isolated gesture.

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 62 is ''Close Encounters with Shakespeare''s Text''.

Mit »Henrik Ibsens Frauen-Gestalten« legte Lou Andreas-Salomé 1892 den Grundstock für ihren Ruhm als Autorin und Interpretin der literarischen Moderne.

Why do Shakespeare and the English Bible seem to have an inherent relationship with each other?

Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare's involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal and political, even constitutional concerns, Shakespeare's theatre opened up a new perspective on normativity.

Spanning his entire life, The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder is a comprehensive and fascinating collection of the great American writers correspondence.

Karl Klein introduces Shakespeare''s late play as a complex exploration of a corrupt, moneyed society.

Re-appraises Shakespeare''s early career, situating his writings and activities in their time, place, and cultural moment.

An indispensable reference tool for Shakespeare students and enthusiasts, this compact guide provides authoritative summaries of each of Shakespeare''s works.

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

Iago's 'I am not what I am' epitomises how Shakespeare's work is rich in philosophy, from issues of deception and moral deviance to those concerning the complex nature of the self, the notions of being and identity, and the possibility or impossibility of self-knowledge and knowledge of others.

The merchant Egeon is caught crossing the border from Syracuse into the rival city of Ephesus-a crime punishable by death.

This book addresses the concept of 'disaster' through a variety of literary texts dating back to the early modern period.

Heracles/ Iphigenia Among the Taurians/ Helen/ Ion/ Cyclops: Of these plays, only 'Heracles' truly belongs in the tragic sphere with its presentation of underserved suffering and divine malignity.

"e;A significant and substantive edition, in that nothing has been taken for granted, everything has been opened to reconsideration.

If it is not generally known that the foundations of twentieth-century criticism of Shakespeare's imagery were laid over one hundred and fifty years ago, the explanation lies in the limited availability of the single original edition of Walter Whiter's Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare published in 1794.

Vom karnevalesken Außenseiter zum scharfsinnigen corrupter of words – der Narr als eine zentrale Reflexionsinstanz der Frühen Neuzeit und ihrer (Welt-)Bühne: Die Studie untersucht zum einen den Narren als Epochenmotiv, als eine in dieser und für diese Zeit besonders signifikante Gestalt.

Based on extensive archival research, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian periodicals.

Shakespeare against the background of his times, his world of the theatre and his dramatic development through the last years of Elizabeth's reign.

Worthen uses contemporary Shakespeare performance to explore the technicity of theatre: its changing work as an intermedial technology.

The argument of this book is a simple one: that criticism after theory is a single movement of thought defined by synthesis and continuity rather than by conflict and change.

This second edition of All''s Well That Ends Well features a new introduction by Alexander Leggatt.

Algunos estudiosos han detectado un elemento subversivo en la visión corrosiva que Fernando de Rojas y Francisco Delicado dejaron traslucir, en La Celestina (1499) y La Lozana andaluza (1530), sobre la sociedad cristiana en que tuvieron que vivir.

The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary.

Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation can only be either theft or gift, and the idea that cultural appropriation should be narrowly defined as an appropriative contest between a hegemonic and marginalized power.