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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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Having made his reputation in the 1940s and ’50s, Arthur Miller continued to write into the twenty-first century, produc......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

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

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

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