Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

In this book, first published in 1990, the author presents a comprehensive critical study of the whole of Jonson’s...  Read More >>

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This title, first published in 1979, is a glossary of the bawdy vocabulary that was used in Renaissance Drama. With...  Read More >>

The twenty-eight essays of this collection, first published in 1962, are the work of distinguished scholars. The...  Read More >>

While most critical writing on Jonson concentrates on the plays, poems or masques seen in isolation, this title,...  Read More >>

What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Does it require explicit engagement with events...  Read More >>

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To show how the casuistical tradition illuminates the study of major literary works in the English Renaissance,...  Read More >>

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This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the...  Read More >>

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In this fascinating book, Leah S. Marcus argues that the colonial context in which Shakespeare was edited and disseminated...  Read More >>

In this fascinating book, Leah S. Marcus argues that the colonial context in which Shakespeare was edited and disseminated...  Read More >>

This book investigates the contemporary conceptions of the Jewish figure on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage....  Read More >>

Scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their...  Read More >>

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This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the...  Read More >>

A systematic investigation of a Greek text, employing the techniques of the ""new criticism."" The book is a major...  Read More >>

This work probes the structure and significance of the increasingly numerous and highly visible plays set in contemporary...  Read More >>

To show how the casuistical tradition illuminates the study of major literary works in the English Renaissance,...  Read More >>

This monograph builds upon transgeneric narratology to develop a new model of epization in drama. It differentiates...  Read More >>

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In Shakespeare On Stage Vol 2, twelve leading actors talk about twelve of the best-known roles ever written, revealing...  Read More >>