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From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes a timely reminder of the power and possib......more
Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emergi......more
This study of Euripides’ Electra approaches the text through the lens of modern linguistics, marrying it with traditiona......more
A New York Times Bestseller For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an i......more
According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-centur......more
Played by a boy actor in 1599, Rosalind is a girl who gets into men s clothes so that she can investigate the truth abo......more
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An introductory guide to studying Shakespeare This book is a ’one-stop-shop’ for the busy undergraduate studying Shakesp......more
The art and craft of playwriting as explored in candid conversations with some of the most important contemporary dramat......more
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Shakespeare’s Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare’s heroines in la......more
In Edward Albee and Absurdism--the inaugural volume in the new book series, New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies--Mi......more
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A thorough and scholarly study of Spenser and Shakespeare and their contrary artistry, covering themes of theology, psyc......more
This photographic facsimile edition is the first time May’s Antigone has appeared in print since 1631....more
The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers addresses the need for an integrated approach to......more
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This is the seventh volume of a detailed play-by-play catalog of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish au......more
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Extends the study of China’s "soft power" into theatre studies and looks more widely at syncretic traditions evolving in......more
In Tom Stoppard’s Plays: Patterns of Plenitude and Parsimony Nigel Purse assesses the complete canon of Tom Stoppard’s w......more
The White Devil is one of the most violent and most fascinating plays in English theatrical history. It is also a notori......more
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Annual volume of the best essays submitted to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, this year with an emphasis on Eng......more
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In the wake of the fear that gripped Europe after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, English dramatists, like their con......more
Preface by Paul Auster - Foreword by Edward Beckett Edited by Lois Oppenheim - Curated by Astrid Myers Rosset You know,......more
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Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award The first comprehensive study of Shakespeare’s storms. Whether the apo......more
Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris is the tale of how two children of Agamemnon whose lives have been blighted in youth are ......more
Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris is the tale of how two children of Agamemnon whose lives have been blighted in youth are ......more
In distracted times like the present, Shakespeare too has been driven to distraction. Shakespeare Cut considers contempo......more
I m thinking this night wasn t I a foolish fellow not to kill my father in years gone by. - Christy Mahon On the fir......more
Thomas P. Anderson explores how the parameters of contemporary radical politics take shape in Coriolanus, King John, Hen......more
The world of theatre criticism is rapidly changing in its form, function and modes of operation in the twenty-first cent......more
When actors perform Shakespeare, what do they do with their bodies? How do they display to the spectator what is hidden ......more
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre provides the most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single ......more
When actors perform Shakespeare, what do they do with their bodies? How do they display to the spectator what is hidden ......more
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Collections XVII is the latest volume in the Malone Society’s pioneering series of editions of miscellaneous documents r......more
This new edition of Barker’s seminal text Arguments for a Theatre outlinesthe theory and practice of his ’Theatre of Cat......more
This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare’s life in relation to his lost family......more
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Tragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of cultural narrative. Debated from Aristotle to the present day, ......more
Early modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art form. How plays should sound and how they should be heard were q......more
This anthology is the sister volume to The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama. It contains sixteen of the most important, in......more
Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceive......more
Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceive......more
The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America throug......more
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Unsettled Toleration: Religious Difference on the Shakespearean Stage historicizes and scrutinizes the unstable concept ......more
Shakespeare in London offers a lively and engaging new reading of some of Shakespeare s major work, informed by close at......more
Hamlet’s Moment identifies a turning point in the history of English drama and early modern political culture: the momen......more
Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Guides conveniently gather indi......more
Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls and nyuk-nyuks percolated alongsi......more
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William Shakespeare s Hamlet is probably the best-known and most commented upon work of literature in Western culture. T......more
Carroll Aikins’s play The God of Gods (1919) has been out of print since its first and only edition in 1927. This critic......more
While successful plays tend to share certain storytelling elements, there is no single blueprint for how a play should b......more
A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American the......more
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The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade ......more
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The Theatre of the Absurd has become a familiar term to describe a group of radical European playwrights - writers suc......more
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Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that establi......more
This is the sixth volume of a detailed play-by-play catalog of drama written by English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish auth......more
Essays on the work of Marie Jones. Marie Jones is one of the most prolific and popular writers working in Northern Irish......more
This important publication is the first collection of articles on the work of the internationally recognised award-winni......more
Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice is the first collection to focus exclusively o......more
Sullied Magnificence: The Theatre of Mark O Rowe is a collection of essays that combines the voices of Mark O Rowe s col......more
The full French text of Sartre’s first full-length play is accompanied by French-English vocabulary. Notes and a detaile......more
Since the premiere of his play FOB in 1979, the Chinese American playwright David Henry Hwang has made a significant imp......more
In 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighbouring island ......more
Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou s suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identita......more
This book explores theoretical and practical approaches to performing gender in contemporary Shakespeare productions. It......more
This book explores theoretical and practical approaches to performing gender in contemporary Shakespeare productions. It......more
From the producer of numerous Agatha Christie stage plays comes the first book to examine the world s bestselling myster......more
The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News builds a case for the central, formative functio......more
This introductory guide to one of Marlowe s most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware comment......more
This is the first major book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first......more
Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou s suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identita......more