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Lucian’s writings raise questions about the nature of reading and viewing the lives of others; this book explores these ......more

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder......more

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

A collection of essays that considers the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with complex Shakespearean t......more

A scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford which was accidentally omitted from t......more

In this volume, Lee Brewer Jones examines Paula Vogel as both a playwright and renowned teacher, analyzing texts and ear......more

Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusi......more

Unsettling Difference challenges the major-minor pattern that has framed discussions of German Jewish difference, focusi......more

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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

The Student’s Companion to Latin Authors, stands as a beacon in the world of books, bridging the gap between past and pr......more

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How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate as......more

An "incisive...heartwarming" (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of the powerful and universal lessons from the......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

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

It is a fact that today’s British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and that, very often, these voices ha......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

We are living in times when populism, war and climate change are all sources of anxiety caused by overlapping crises. An......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

Christopher Marlowe’s reputation is seen here in the context of the six University Wits. Bringing together the most sign......more

The book proposes a new reading of Molière’s classical comedies, focused on a reassessment of his woman figures, who wer......more

A new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain world In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri L......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

A vivid portrait of Madrid--ideal for the cultured tourist or armchair traveler. Hugh Thomas, best known for his authori......more

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

Under the Holly: Christmas-Tide in Song and Story, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human ......more

Eugene O’Neill wrote his most enduring and important plays after he won international acclaim as the first and only Amer......more

The Steel Flea, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is n......more

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

First published in 1980, Mediations supplements, extends, and deepens Martin Esslin’s earlier writings on Samuel Beckett......more

Stage Confidences: Talks About Players and Play Acting, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the h......more

Stage-Land, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never......more

A Treatise of Daunses, Wherin It is Shewed, That They Are as It Were Accessories and Dependants (Or Thynges Annexed) to ......more

Lauded as one of the most important poets and playwrights of the twentieth century, Federico García Lorca was also an ac......more

"What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the year......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 Jean-Paul Sartre’s Plays in Théâtre complet is the first volume to propose a critical analysis of all of ......more

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

Despite the steady rise in adaptations of Samuel Beckett’s work across the world following the author’s death in 1989, B......more

Reanimating grief is a wide-ranging study of the poetics of bereavement in theatre, literature and song. It examines the......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 commercial theatre in London in 1579 initiated a pattern of development that radically reshaped......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

Reading Drama in Eighteenth-Century France is the first book-length study of how plays were read in eighteenth-century F......more