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

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

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

The Tree That Saved Connecticut, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so th......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

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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

The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, a......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 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

A Translation of Octavia, a Latin Tragedy, with Notes and Introduction, a classical book, has been considered important ......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

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

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

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

In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei--a leading scholar of noh theater--provides a detailed account of the birt......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. 3, 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

’What is honour? A word. What is in that word ’honour’? What is that ’honour’? Air.’ A history play that combines a comi......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

The tragical acts, or comical tragedies of Punch and Judy, a classical book, was published more than a century ago and h......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

Dramatic texts come with a natural structure of acts, scenes and speech clearly assigned to characters that lends itself......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

Enthusiastically praised by Charles Lamb and A. C. Swinburne but unjustly neglected since the early twentieth century, T......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

This book shows how early drama traditions were transformed, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships ......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

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

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

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

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

Discussions of Coward’s achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful biograph......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

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

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Through expert guidance on understanding, interpreting, and writing about Shakespeare’s language, this book makes The Wi......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

"The Just and the Unjust" was written by Vaughan Kester, a remarkable American author from the early 1900s. The book is ......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