A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays performed in private non-playhouse settings between 15......more
A new edition of the celebrated Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre (2002), The Methuen Drama Encyclopedia ......more
This book is a fresh, archivally nourished study of creative practice and exchange in theatre and the visual arts in eig......more
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Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 is the first study of the impact of partition on the culture of Ireland. Examinin......more
From the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge’s sodden corpses and Joyce’s dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnail......more
This book examines the emergence of documentary theatre in Ireland during the 2010s, linking this to a combination of po......more
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This collection of essays focuses how dance and movement engage and enact political questions around agency, mobility, p......more
This scholarly guide to the play highlights its unique position in the Shakespeare canon by covering its nuanced perform......more
How the drama of Shakespeare’s time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing......more
How the drama of Shakespeare’s time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing......more
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Tracing the evolution of the figure of the writer-cum-bureaucrat from the Victorian Irish Civil Service through to the p......more
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Were Renaissance women merely the silent subjects of the images of themselves they witnessed circulating in the visual c......more
’I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.’ One of the most d......more
An "incisive...heartwarming" (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of the powerful and universal lessons from the......more
What is the "tragic imagination"? And what role does it play in the works of William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson......more
Cutting across academic boundaries, this volume brings together scholars from different disciplines who have explored to......more
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Written by a practising poet and novelist who has close experience of the subject matter and has published creative work......more
A stand-alone edition of Sophocles’s Antigone taken from Chicago’s renowned translations of the Greek tragedies. Drawn f......more
An updated stand-alone edition of Sophocles’s Oedipus the King taken from Chicago’s renowned translations of the Greek t......more
Examining theatrical performance under Stalinist cultural mandates Talk of Joseph Stalin’s "show trials," the public pro......more
Examining theatrical performance under Stalinist cultural mandates Talk of Joseph Stalin’s "show trials," the public pro......more
A play about defiance of systemic racism. Juan de Mérida, an Afro-Spanish soldier aspires to social advancement in the N......more
A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays performed in private non-playhouse settings between 15......more
Radio drama has been around for more than one hundred years and is still vibrant in many countries. A narrative-dramatic......more
The "rogue," a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of......more
Oscar Wilde’s Oxford Notebooks, which was originally published in 1989, was the first publication of Oscar Wilde’s Noteb......more
This book is about Shakespeare’s role in sustaining the anti-Black paradigm of modernity. This work re-reads both Shakes......more
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The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first-century notion, but similar concerns abou......more
The book argues that these plays show us a society haunted by the unquiet burials of Anglo-Saxon saints and kings and th......more
Beckett’s Co-authors takes a fresh look at Samuel Beckett and the business of authorship, especially his involvement in ......more
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This study benefits from the terminology of geocriticism - a literary criticism that suggests an interdisciplinary appro......more
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This is the first full-length book to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work through contemporary ecological thinking, offeri......more
A study of the impact of film and mass culture on drama after World War II. In Theater after Film, Martin Harries argues......more
A study of the impact of film and mass culture on drama after World War II. In Theater after Film, Martin Harries argues......more
’Men’s evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water.’ Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare’s retellin......more
"when I admire a film they say to me yes, it’s very pretty but it’s not cinema so I asked myself what it was" Phrases pr......more
"Sincerity is the one great artistic crime. Insincerity is the second greatest." In addition to his literary and fiction......more
The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre tells the story of drama and performing in Scotland from the earliest traces of ......more
Chaucer’s Ethical Philosophy argues that Chaucer’s fictions engage with the most urgent questions of modern political an......more
This book argues that Shakespeare turned staging problems into opportunities for complex characterization by mobilizing ......more
First published in 1974, Investigating Drama offers a holistic understanding of drama. An understanding of drama require......more
Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration offers invaluable insight into how Shakespeare appears in prison. Bringing ......more
Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration offers invaluable insight into how Shakespeare appears in prison. Bringing ......more
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Having made his reputation in the 1940s and ’50s, Arthur Miller continued to write into the twenty-first century, produc......more
Originally published in 1971, this book elucidates Beckett’s work in the light of his concern with literary form. This i......more
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