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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

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

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

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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

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

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O’Brien’s attempt to forge a commercially suc......more

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

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

While many ancient Jewish and Christian leaders voiced opposition to Greek and Roman theater, this volume demonstrates t......more

Massinger’s Italy: Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger offers the first book-length account of......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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"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

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

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

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

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

"What we do now becomes history by which our grandchildren will judge us." August Wilson’s words, delivered in a speech ......more

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

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

It is a fact that today’s British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and that, very often, these voices ha......more

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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

Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either ove......more

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

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

There is nothing funny about comedy in Renaissance France. Comic theatre in the sixteenth century was employed, primaril......more

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

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

In uncovering the origin of the designation ’University Wits’, Bob Logan examines the characteristics of the Wits and th......more

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

The Glass Door is an adaptation of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. In this version (in three acts), the play has been shor......more

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

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

Flann O’Brien and the Nonhuman is the first book to explore in detail the author’s interest in the agency, materiality, ......more

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

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

Originally published in 1992, Music in English Children’s Drama of the Later Renaissance is the first book-length study ......more

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

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

The Tree That Saved Connecticut, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so th......more

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

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

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

Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the h......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

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

Lauded as one of the most important poets and playwrights of the 20th Century, Federico Garcia Lorca was also an accompl......more

Lauded as one of the most important poets and playwrights of the twentieth century, Federico García Lorca was also an ac......more

Thomas Dekker’s singular comic drama, The Shoemakers’ Holiday moves through the urban landscape of 16th century apprenti......more

"What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the year......more

What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the years......more