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

Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the ......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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

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

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

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the p......more

This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention......more

Voices of Time: Unveiling Shakespearean Echoes is a compelling anthology that revisits the ever-resonant works of Willia......more

Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,......more

A comprehensive account of the works of eighteenth-century English writer Matthew Gregory Lewis, identifying him as an i......more

This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a perio......more

Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. This is the story of his haunting, told for th......more

Despite the crucial roles they often play, no study yet compares the off-stage assemblies, armies, and populations found......more

A study of Shakespeare’s child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own. Politicians are fo......more

Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson takes a closer look at the often peculiar, sometimes incongruous physical movements and ......more

First published in 1988, Priapea is a collection of eighty Latin epigrams, English translated, that make up the corpus P......more

"Richard Wright’s dramatic imagination guided the creation of his masterpieces Native Son and Black Boy and helped shape......more

First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book affords......more

Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,......more

This Element argues for the importance of extended reality as an innovative force that changes the understanding of thea......more

This Element focuses on Sleep No More, the iconic immersive theatre production of Macbeth produced by the British compan......more

Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama proposes a fresh performance-centered view of rhetoric by......more

First published in 1962, John Lyly marks a shift from the traditional focus on John Lyly as the originator of the strang......more

"This lively contemporary translation of Shakespeare’s sexiest play brings the political intrigue and historical storyte......more

First published in 1965, The Golden Labyrinth provides a coherent and readable history of the essential nature of Britis......more

A new translation of Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R.--which famously coined the term "robot"--and a collection of essays refle......more

Reads canonical works of modern drama in relation to the economic ideas of their era Emerging amid the turbulent rise of......more

Kabeiroi, Tereus, Alcmaeon in Corinth, Alexandros, Cresphontes, Cretans, Ino, Melanippe Wise, Hypsipyle, Palamedes, Phae......more

The first book-length study of Horace Walpole’s scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an abridged......more