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A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays performed in private non-playhouse settings between 15......more

This book is a fresh, archivally nourished study of creative practice and exchange in theatre and the visual arts in eig......more

This collection of essays focuses how dance and movement engage and enact political questions around agency, mobility, p......more

What is the "tragic imagination"? And what role does it play in the works of William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson......more

A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays performed in private non-playhouse settings between 15......more

Beckett’s Co-authors takes a fresh look at Samuel Beckett and the business of authorship, especially his involvement in ......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

This book argues that Shakespeare turned staging problems into opportunities for complex characterization by mobilizing ......more

This study benefits from the terminology of geocriticism - a literary criticism that suggests an interdisciplinary appro......more

Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration offers invaluable insight into how Shakespeare appears in prison. Bringing ......more

Based on the texts of traditional Chinese dramas such as The Orphan of Zhao, Liang Shangbo and Zhu Yingtai, The Injustic......more

Originally published in 1971, this book elucidates Beckett’s work in the light of his concern with literary form. This i......more

This book shows that Shakespeare’s dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, stages......more

Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramat......more

Lucian’s writings raise questions about the nature of reading and viewing the lives of others; this book explores these ......more

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder......more

In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, one of the most critically acclaimed playwrights in the United States tod......more

This is the first full-length book to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work through contemporary ecological thinking, offeri......more

A great deal has been written about early modern temporality, both by scholars of Renaissance drama and historians of ch......more

A collection of essays that considers the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with complex Shakespearean t......more

A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford, which has not seen much previous cri......more

Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusi......more

Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusi......more

Alternative temporalities have often emerged as a reaction to the normativizing force of time, demonstrating that time c......more

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This volume demonstrates that by the time the public performance of classical drama ceased at the end of antiquity the i......more

The first ever critical edition of Thomas Heywood’s 1626 play, Dick of Devonshire, presented for the first time with an ......more

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French Drama of the Revolutionary Years (1990) examines the years following the Revolution which saw an explosion both i......more

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How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate as......more

"Art has a lot to answer for." So says Sarah Bernhardt in Ronald Harwood’s play After the Lions. Harwood’s own career ca......more

A wide-ranging group of scholarly essays that probe the historical nature of English identity, both through self-definit......more

This book advances five original readings of Shakespeare’s King Lear, influenced by Giorgio Agamben, but tempered by pri......more

Pulcinella, a Neapolitan clown born of the commedia dell’arte tradition, went viral in Europe in the seventeenth and eig......more

Discover the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musica......more

A groundbreaking new account of the author of The Spanish Tragedy that establishes him as a major Elizabethan dramatist ......more

Essays exploring the lasting impact of Habib Tanvir’s pioneering theatre which blended tradition with modernity in the p......more

Essays exploring the lasting impact of Habib Tanvir’s pioneering theatre which blended tradition with modernity in the p......more

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Th......more

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visua......more

Four years on from George Floyd’s murder, this volume asks if and how Shakespeare might be relevant--whether in performa......more

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First published in 1975, The Psychology of Tragic Drama offers an interpretation of some of the themes of both ancient a......more

Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspec......more

Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspec......more

We are living in times when populism, war and climate change are all sources of anxiety caused by overlapping crises. An......more

Though notorious for his visceral, affective, and politically incendiary writing, Jean Genet also had a surprising pench......more

Much literature and scholarship has been devoted to the works by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), one of the greatest ......more

How did the popular drama of Shakespeare’s age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ......more

Volpone, Or, The Fox is Ben Jonson’s great parable of greed, self-interest and inheritance. Using animal fable to satiri......more

Christopher Marlowe’s reputation is seen here in the context of the six University Wits. Bringing together the most sign......more

In the first extended investigation of the importance of dramatic farce in Rabelais studies, Bruce Hayes makes an import......more

Framed by the publication of Leviathan and the 1713 Licensing Act, this collection provides analysis of both canonical a......more

The Principles of Language-Study, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so t......more

The book proposes a new reading of Molière’s classical comedies, focused on a reassessment of his woman figures, who wer......more

A new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain world In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri L......more

First published in 1971, Poison, Play and Duel explores the dominant symbols of the language and action of Hamlet. The G......more

First published in 1971, Ionesco is a study of the plays written by the absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco. Eugene Ione......more

This book is envisaged as an intervention in the ongoing explorations in social and cultural history, into questions of ......more

A vivid portrait of Madrid--ideal for the cultured tourist or armchair traveler. Hugh Thomas, best known for his authori......more

The Universal Reciter; 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems, a classical book, has been considered important throughou......more

This book explores how humorous depictions of the Great War worked to familiarise, domesticate, and tame the conflict. W......more

Under the Holly: Christmas-Tide in Song and Story, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human ......more

Eugene O’Neill wrote his most enduring and important plays after he won international acclaim as the first and only Amer......more

The Steel Flea, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is n......more

First published in 1977, the third edition of Pinter is an excellent analysis of Harold Pinter and his works....more

First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslin’s earlier writings on Samuel Beckett......more

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation, Inters......more

The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, a......more

Stage-Land, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never......more

A Treatise of Daunses, Wherin It is Shewed, That They Are as It Were Accessories and Dependants (Or Thynges Annexed) to ......more