Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books

The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts - and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. Ghosts take the form of...

Othello The Moore of VeniceWilliam ShakespeareOthello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603. It is based on the story Un Capitano Moro ("A Moorish Captain") by Cinthio (a...

A collection of previously unpublished lectures by the late Martin Lings, Shakespearean scholar and Sufi master. The main plays are seen in the light of universal and perennial metaphysics, psychology and eschatology, with many insights into the mystical...

Uruguayan theatre is receiving increased attention in the UK and, having contributed new translations and scholarship to this field, Sophie Stevens here examines Uruguayan theatre in motion, through translation, as an innovative and creative way of...

Shakespeare enjoys an enduring curiosity. While epilogues are rare in his work, the ones we have can bring us the author?s perspective in a more direct fashion than is the case with the plays they conclude. Since we are naturally curious about...

Das Buch ""Der Alten Griechen Gotterlehre, Mythen Und Heldensagen: Fur Freunde Des Classischen Alterthums"" wurde 1882 von Gerlach, G. Th. ver������ffentlicht. Es ist eine umfassende Darstellung der griechischen Mythologie und Heldensagen f�����r...

De Graeis: Dissertatio Mytholo-Archaeologica (1863) est opus Gaedechens, Rudolphus, qui de Graecorum mythologia et archaeologia tractat. In hoc libro, auctor mythologiam Graecorum exponit et deorum, heroum, et mythicorum locorum origines et...

De Germaniae Quae Vocatur Taciteae Fontibus est liber Antonii Luckenbach, editus anno MDCCCXCI. In hoc libro, Luckenbach investigat fontes historicos quibus Tacitus usus est in scribendo de Germania. Tacitus, historicus Romanus, scripsit de Germania in...

De Ephebis Atticis est opus Wilhelmus Dittenberger, scriptoris Germanici, anno MDCCCLXIII editum. In hoc libro, Dittenberger historiam epheborum Atticorum describit et eorum vitam cotidianam, educationem, et cultum deorum explicat. Ephebi, qui Athenis in...

The great Shakespeare Jubilee festival was held at Stratford, under the direction of David Garrick. The occasion was the dedication of the new town hall and the presentation by Garrick of a statue of Shakespeare. Immense interest, enthusiasm, and...

Shakespeare against the background of his times, his world of the theatre and his dramatic development through the last years of Elizabeth's reign. Originally published in 1933 and republished in 1958, this great work is an imagining, in plain narrative,...

Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy...

Winner of 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award, Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers careful interpretations of five Shakespearean plays -Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, and The Tempest-with a view to the enduring guida

When Alan Schneider agreed to direct the American premiere of Samuel Beckett's first published play, Waiting for Godot, in 1955, neither man knew that the play would be an unequivocal flop, nor that it would be the beginning of a lifelong friendship. ...

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. Rather than simply exploring how Shakespeare's plays were appropriated for political purposes in Communist Central and Eastern...

Many people today first encounter staged Shakespeare in an open-air setting. In Australia, picnic Shakespeares seem particularly suited to the predilections of contemporary audiences and the plays have been performed in a remarkably varied range of sites...

Within the study of drama, the question of how to relate text and performance - and what interpretive tools are best suited to analyzing them - is a longstanding and contentious one. Most scholars agree that reading a printed play is a means of dramatic...

This scholarly work delves into the character of Othello, one of Shakespeare's most complex and controversial figures. Through a careful analysis of the play's language and themes, the author challenges common assumptions about Othello's motivations and...

Shakespeariana is a collection of articles and essays on William Shakespeare and his works. It provides valuable insight into the commentary and criticism of Shakespeare throughout history.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

This compilation of thirty-seven Shakespeare plays is specifically arranged to aid students, clergymen, lawyers, and other scholars in their studies. The plays are analyzed and arranged topically for easy reference.This work has been selected by scholars...

This insightful work examines the roles of women in the plays of William Shakespeare. From Juliet to Lady Macbeth, The Women of Shakespeare offers a fascinating glimpse into the way that women are represented in Shakespeare's works and the ways in which...

This book is a comprehensive guide to the great American dramatists, from the earliest colonial days to the present time. It features biographical sketches of the authors, as well as summaries and reviews of their work. This book is an invaluable...

This book provides a unique perspective on Jacobean tragedy, focusing on the use of dramatic irony in the plays of the period. J.M.R. Margeson is a well-respected scholar in early modern drama and has written extensively on the subject. This book is a...

In this provocative work, Justin Winsor engages in a spirited exchange with British antiquary Thomas Shapleigh over the identity of William Shakespeare. Is Shakespeare a pseudonym for Francis Bacon, as Shapleigh asserts, or is this theory unfounded, as...

This book is a collection of literary criticism by one of the greatest poets of the Romantic era. In it, Coleridge analyzes the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, and Fletcher, providing insights into their themes, styles, and techniques. His...

This book explores the religious beliefs of Shakespeare through analysis of the character Prospero in The Tempest and the mystical philosopher Jacob Behmen. Roffe argues that Shakespeare was a follower of Behmen and that his plays reflect this belief...

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare's trans-cultural writing through the interrelations and interactions of binaries including theory and practice, past and present,...

The renowned author Andy Adams' fascinating Western book "Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings" is set in the Old West. This engrossing story chronicles the exploits of the Wells brothers, an adventurous pair who set out on a spectacular voyage across...

Harold Bloom realiza un acercamiento literario, crítico y ante todo humanista a los personajes que considera más relevantes de Shakespeare. El primero: Falstaff.Dos años antes de su muerte, Harold Bloom inició una serie de cinco libros en los que...

Diese Studie stellt sich der weit verbreiteten Feststellung entgegen, dass Regiebemerkungen in deutschsprachigen Dramen des 18. Jahrhunderts von geringer Bedeutung sind. Sie untersucht neben kanonischen Dramen von Lessing, Lenz, Goethe und Schiller auch...

The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes theorizes the revolutionary and evolutionary import of Beckett's works in a global context defined by increasingly ubiquitous and...

This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker's oeuvre. With The Castle as a focal point, the scope extends considerably beyond this play to incorporate analysis and exploration of the Theatre of Catastrophe;...

This book examines the figure of Joan of Arc as depicted in stage works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially those based on or related to Schiller's 1801 romantic tragedy, Die Jungfrau von Orleans (The Maid of Orleans). The author...

This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted on the writing and production of popular drama between about 1587 and 1603. It concentrates upon six plays by five early modern...

In Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies, Alan Sikes explores the intersection of struggles over sex and class identities in politicized performances during key revolutionary moments in modern European history.  The book...

Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes...

Three plays analyzed from a Jungian perspective and a fresh wit, catching many contemporary nuances in these well-loved plays and their continuing relevance for today.Barbara Rogers-Gardner has a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Rutgers University...

Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity elucidates the ways in which Shakespeare as a cultural phenomenon has influenced the development of nearly every dimension of cinema. Challenging many deeply-embedded assumptions of theories...

As cultural practice, the early modern duel both indicated and shaped the gender assumptions of wealthy young men; it served, in fact, as a nexus for different, often competing, notions of masculinity. As Jennifer Low illustrates by examining the...

Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies! Many unspoken assumptions permeated the experience of performance in Shakespeare's theatre. Drawing on scientific treatises, murder pamphlets, travel narratives,...

Creators, Innovators, and Theatremakers:Defy the Smallness of the StageWith the Greatness of Your DaringWong's first book upended tragic literary theory by arguing that risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. It also launched an international...

In this book, Gerald H. Rendall offers a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare's sonnets and their connection to Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. Rendall's analysis sheds new light on the mysteries surrounding Shakespeare's life and work. This book...