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

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

While British drama of the long eighteenth century remains largely unexamined as registering ecological fears, its visua......more

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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

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

Much literature and scholarship has been devoted to the works by Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), one of the greatest ......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

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

The Universal Reciter; 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems, a classical book, has been considered important throughou......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

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

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

Translations from Lucretius, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that t......more

Through an historical and philological lens, this book explores passages from Dante’s Commedia which reveal elements ins......more

In Shakespeare and Science Fiction Sarah Annes Brown investigates why so many science fiction writers have turned to Sha......more

An Analysis of all the Plays and Fragmentary Works in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Théâtre complet is the first volume to propose ......more

In "Entangled Desires: A Tale of Love and Betrayal," Tyree Whitworth masterfully weaves a gripping narrative that delves......more

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning. Comb......more

Beckett’s afterlives is the first book-length study dedicated to posthumous adaptations of Beckett’s oeuvre. This collec......more

This interdisciplinary collection discusses how Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been translated into different languages and cu......more

German literature from roughly 1750 to 1850 has a tradition of tragic drama unmatched by any other literature in that pe......more

Traits of American Humour, Vol. 2, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered impor......more

Traits of American Humour, Vol. 1, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered impor......more

The Training of a Public Speaker, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered import......more

’We that are true lovers run into strange capers.’ Four centuries after its publication in the Folio, As You Like It’s c......more

’How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in’t!’ Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebr......more

’A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life’ This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare......more

’Here will be an old abusing of God’s patience and the King’s English.’ The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespea......more

Commonly used as a rallying cry for general approaches to literary studies, the imagination has until recently been over......more

This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. It broadens the scope of existin......more

Primavera: Poems by Four Authors, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered import......more

The Spirit of Aristophanes is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of ancient literature and culture from fifth-cent......more

Practice Book, Leland Powers School, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and has been considered imp......more

"F*ck the Army! resurrects the history of the FTA, an antiwar variety show led by Jane Fonda in 1971, building a new the......more

The volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how 21st-century British theatre increasingly intercuts dystopi......more

’No matter which way you look at us, you’ll find that we’re in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in ever......more

The opening of the first theatre in 1579 created an interplay between the innovations of producers and the perceptions o......more

Whilst Shakespearean drama provides eloquent calls to war, more often than not these are undercut or outweighed by compe......more

Shortlisted for The TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023 As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays in W......more

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful speec......more

This is the first book-length study of one of the most talented and exciting American playwrights working today. Stephen......more

An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth centu......more

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

Hyde Park (1632) is one of the best-loved comedies of James Shirley, considered to be one of the most important Caroline......more

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare...more

In requiring artificial light, the early modern indoor theatre had to interrupt the action so that the candles could be ......more

The book explores how theatre, with its performative capacity, has the power to engage with and affect the politics of i......more

How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey tak......more

Among the most significant playwrights and theatre-makers of postcolonial India, Utpal Dutt (1929-1993), was an early ex......more

What is the "tragic imagination"? And what role does it play in the works of William Shakespeare and Ralph Waldo Emerson......more

This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton’s legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton’s most conte......more

How was modern character made or remade at the turn of the twentieth century? Modern Character: 1888-1905 considers a ra......more

First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected works in......more

"A Fool There Was" by Porter Emerson Browne is a compelling drama delving into the tragic consequences of seduction, inf......more

This edited collection considers the task of teaching Shakespeare in general education college courses, a task which is ......more

Diverging from critical paths that have focused on nostalgia as a memorializing practice or on Stuart nostalgia for Eliz......more

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"The Garden Without Walls" by Coningsby Dawson is a singular that unfolds against the backdrop of World War I, supplying......more

Les Epstein attended thousands of live performances of opera, theater, and concerts. You might say he became a collector......more

This is a book about how Molière, France’s most celebrated author of comedies, made something strikingly new out of the ......more

As a major source of debate on theological topics such as the resurrection of body and soul, justification by faith, and......more

Shakespeare’s visionary women, usually confined to the periphery, claim centre stage to voice their sleeping and waking ......more

Inspired by ongoing movements for social justice, equality, accountability, and truth, the scholars in this volume resit......more

R. A. Streatfeild’s classic novel "The Opera" provides readers with an enthralling insight into the realm of the perform......more