Classic and pre-20th century plays

Shakespeare's plays have never had a larger audience than they do in our time.

Instead of seeing Terence primarily as an adapter of Greek New Comedy, Sander Goldberg treats him as an innovative dramatist writing for a specifically Roman audience.

Here is a rich variety of approaches to teaching Shakespeare, described by authors who are distinguished teachers and scholars.

Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise.

By means of a cross-cultural analysis of selected examples of early Japanese and early Greek drama, Mae Smethurst enhances our appreciation of each form.

Jeffrey Ulrich's The Shadow of an Ass addresses fundamental questions about the reception and aesthetic experience of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, popularly known as The Golden Ass, by situating the novel in a contemporaneous literary and philosophical discourse emerging in the Second Sophistic.

Twins and Duality in Early Modern Representation investigates the complex and paradoxical discourse surrounding concepts of twinship in texts written in the early modern period, where twins were considered both miraculous and uncanny.

Twins and Duality in Early Modern Representation investigates the complex and paradoxical discourse surrounding concepts of twinship in texts written in the early modern period, where twins were considered both miraculous and uncanny.

These thirteen essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry into the urban contexts of literary production.

In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare's plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Melies and what to the Lumiere brothers.

This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full personality with a conscious and unconscious emotional life.

Of the three texts of King Lear--the Quarto version printed in 1608, the Folio edition of 1623, and the modern composite of these two early texts--it has been assumed that both the Quarto and Folio versions arc distortions of an unblemished original"e; now lost and that only the modern text accurately approaches Shakespeare's lost original manuscript.

This book argues that the idea of metamorphosis is central to both the theory and practice of Shakespearean comedy.

These thirteen essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry into the urban contexts of literary production.

These thirteen essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry into the urban contexts of literary production.

Novy demonstrates how the plays are theatrical transformations of tensions in both ideals and practices in Renaissance society.

In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare's plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Melies and what to the Lumiere brothers.

Jeffrey Ulrich's The Shadow of an Ass addresses fundamental questions about the reception and aesthetic experience of Apuleius' Metamorphoses, popularly known as The Golden Ass, by situating the novel in a contemporaneous literary and philosophical discourse emerging in the Second Sophistic.

Elaine Fantham provides here a fresh Latin text of Seneca's Traodes and an English version, with an extensive introduction and critical commentary--the first separate treatment of the play in English since Kingery's 1908 edition.

We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of his work as it reflects a culture remote from our own.

Highly acclaimed as translators of Greek and Sanskrit classics, respectively, David Grene and Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty here present a complete modern translation of the three plays comprising Aeschylus' Oresteia and, with the assistance of director Nicholas Rudall, an abridged stage adaptation.

Highly acclaimed as translators of Greek and Sanskrit classics, respectively, David Grene and Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty here present a complete modern translation of the three plays comprising Aeschylus' Oresteia and, with the assistance of director Nicholas Rudall, an abridged stage adaptation.

Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy explores the profound and multifaceted relationship between William Shakespeare's historical dramas and biblical intertextuality.

Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage revises the anthropocentric narrative of early globalization from the perspective of the non-human world in order to demonstrate Nature's agency in determining ecological, economic, and colonial outcomes.

Anthropocene Theater and the Shakespearean Stage revises the anthropocentric narrative of early globalization from the perspective of the non-human world in order to demonstrate Nature's agency in determining ecological, economic, and colonial outcomes.

The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy is the first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama.

The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy is the first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama.

'O mother, mother!

'The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

This is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology.

In 1623 a team of stationers published what has become the most famous volume in English literary history: William Shakespeare's First Folio.

In 1623 a team of stationers published what has become the most famous volume in English literary history: William Shakespeare's First Folio.

Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy explores the profound and multifaceted relationship between William Shakespeare's historical dramas and biblical intertextuality.

This is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology.

No Hamlets is the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the political right in Germany from the founding of the Empire in 1871 to the 'Bonn Republic' of the Cold War era.

What did work mean to Shakespeare?

Shakespeare and Queer Studies offers an accessible, comprehensive, and non-polemical account of queer approaches to Shakespeare's plays and poems.

What did work mean to Shakespeare?

Lear's Self-Discovery explores the profound theme of self-awareness in Shakespeare's King Lear, emphasizing its intellectual and dramatic significance.

Lear's Self-Discovery explores the profound theme of self-awareness in Shakespeare's King Lear, emphasizing its intellectual and dramatic significance.

Focusing on stage directions, implied stage action in the dialogue, and on production choices available at key moments, this Handbook treats the script like a rehearsal in progress and encourages the imagining of a physical narrative where the play's meanings and our responses are shaped by staged actions.

Focusing on stage directions, implied stage action in the dialogue, and on production choices available at key moments, this Handbook treats the script like a rehearsal in progress and encourages the imagining of a physical narrative where the play's meanings and our responses are shaped by staged actions.

'It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

The undertow of unspoken feeling is tumultuous, and although hardly anything happens the action amounts to a fearful adventure New York TimesJames Joyce s play Exiles follows the story of writer Richard Rowan, who, along with his 'common-law wife Bertha and their son Archie, has come home to Dublin after ten years away.

Shakespeare's Proverbial Language: An Index, by R.

Shakespeare's Proverbial Language: An Index, by R.

Originally performed by its creators, this 1987 Edinburgh Fringe hit remains the second longest-running West End comedy in history and has been translated into over thirty languages.

Originally performed by its creators, this 1987 Edinburgh Fringe hit remains the second longest-running West End comedy in history and has been translated into over thirty languages.