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

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

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

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

First published in 1975, The English Morality Play is the extended history of the English morality play, its persistence......more

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

Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing: Dreamwrighting for Stage and Screen teaches you how to use your dreams, content, form, a......more

This study breaks with traditional readings in terms of tragic model and tragic hero in the works of Racine and Corneill......more

Modernists and the Theatre examines how six key modernists, who are best known as poets and novelists, engaged with the ......more

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First published in 1971, Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television is concerned with the nature of theatre a......more

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

After the strikingly beautiful Peony Pavilion, how could one write about love and the ideal of emotional authenticity (q......more

Between 2010 and 2017, Canada experienced an efflorescence of Greek tragedy, led by independent Montreal theatre company......more

Between 2010 and 2017, Canada experienced an efflorescence of Greek tragedy, led by independent Montreal theatre company......more

A deep dive into the influences, patterns and structures that underscore the foundation of the literary works of James R......more

This volume is the seventeenth in a series dedicated to presenting the latest findings in the fields of comparative dram......more

What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social con......more

In the "post-truth" era, the question of how people perceive things to be real, even when they are not based in fact, pr......more

First published in 1974, Investigating Drama offers a holistic understanding of drama. An understanding of drama require......more

An ideal introduction into the complex and compelling dramas of the acclaimed playwright Now available in a paperback ed......more

A new preface covers Mamet’s most recent plays and nonfiction writing Understanding David Mamet analyzes the broad range......more

"Called "an ecstatic, arc-bright wonder and terror" by The New Yorker, this major work of art now receives a first print......more

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation brings together a variety of different voices to examine ......more

In the aftermath of New Historicism and Cultural Materialism, the field of Shakespeare Studies has been increasingly ove......more

The Tempest is created in a unique style with detailed explanations next to the original text. Characters, themes, langu......more

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

Flann O’Brien: Acting out is the first full-length study to comprehensively address the themes of performance, masking a......more

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flouris......more

How many hit musicals are based on films that were shot in two days at a budget of $30,000? The answer is one: Little Sh......more

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

The first-ever English translation of this dramatic work by Nikolai Evreinov. In the 1910s the Russian theater director ......more

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In the early 1900s, three small-town midwestern playwrights helped shepherd American theatre into the modern era. Togeth......more

"The first anthology of youth plays from Gaza and the wider Palestinian region, this timely collection ties together nin......more