Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books

Covering the turbulent history of American drama from the Civil War to the present day, this classic study offers a fascinating look at the evolution of this vital cultural form. With illuminating analysis of major playwrights and trends, as well as...

This collection of essays covers a range of topics related to English drama, from Shakespearean tragedy to contemporary works. With insightful analysis and close readings, these scholars offer fresh perspectives on some of the most enduring works of the...

A critical analysis on the historical plays of Shakespeare, providing in-depth explanations and interpretations of each play. The author also explores the historical accuracy of each play and its relevance to the era in which it was written.This work has...

This book is a guide to William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. The book provides an overview of the play's plot, characters, and themes, and includes commentary and analysis of key scenes. The book is an essential read for anyone studying...

This book offers a fascinating exploration of the references to precious stones found in Shakespeare's works. Kunz's commentary covers a wide range of topics, including mineralogy, symbolism, and the social contexts of gemstones in early modern England...

This book, written by Karl Young, is a scholarly study of the development of liturgical drama and theatre in medieval Europe. It focuses specifically on the work of Phillipe De Mézières and how his dramatic office for the Presentation of the Virgin...

In this illuminating work, B.R. Field explores the medical knowledge and practices reflected in the plays of William Shakespeare. Drawing on contemporary sources and historical research, Field reveals the depth of Shakespeare's understanding of human...

In this groundbreaking work of literary criticism, Strachey applies a rigorous analytical method to Shakespeare's Hamlet to uncover its underlying moral and philosophical themes. A must-read for scholars and enthusiasts of Shakespearean drama.This work...

This book is a collection of papers presented at the Buffalo Literary Clinic's annual Shakespeare studies symposium. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to Shakespeare's plays, including textual analysis, historical context, performance...

Comedy Matters traces the long tradition of the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity that manages to survive even in some of mankind's darkest moments. Demastes argues that comedy has a hard-nosed, pragmatic dimension that can be...

Barbeau reconstructs the system of religion that Coleridge develops in Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (1840). Coleridge's late system links four sources of divinity-the Bible, the traditions of the church, the interior work of the Spirit, and the...

Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its...

The Culture of Obesity in Early and Late Modernity offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. As Levy-Navarro notes, bodily perceptions have evolved that value the thin body as they mark and stigmatize the fat one...

This book argues that in the course of grappling with skepticism, Shakespeare and Donne revolutionize the art of memory and discover an art of doubt. Topics important to students of Renaissance literature-such as mimesis, exemplarity, pastoral and...

This exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. It reflects upon the contexts determining the production of different cinematic ventures, and it provides an innovative understanding of Shakespeare's...

Focusing on how citizens of early modern England tried to locate themselves and their nation through geography and travel writing, Monica Matei-Chesnoiu explores theatrical representations of Western European space and ethnography. Geographic discourses...

Shakespeare scholars and cultural theorists critically investigate the relationship between early modern culture and contemporary political and technological changes concerning the idea of the "human." The volume covers the tragedies King Lear and Hamlet...

What are Shakespeare's uses of the conceptual space of conflict? And what has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of the Shakespeare myth, and in its European and then global spread? This collection...

Each with their own logic, fictional and historical worlds provide different ways to view reality. This book is about those worlds, past and present, and it concentrates on literature and history as two of the keys to culture. Underneath a dazzling...

The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all,...

An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern performance practice negotiates the possibilities for staging these characters who refuse to conform to standards of acceptable...

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Mimetic Depth in Hamlet reconstructs the theory of character and the perspectives on interpretation inherent in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. More than 400 years after the play was written, its ideas are still novel, and they belong at the center...

He is the greatest writer in the English language-perhaps in any language-and here, in one compact volume is all the verse even many of those familiar with his plays have never read.In 1593 and 1594, while English theaters were closed in response to the...

""Vecchie Storie"" ����� un libro scritto da Pompeo G. Molmenti e pubblicato nel 1882. Questo volume raccoglie una serie di racconti che narrano di avventure e vicende passate, ambientati in diverse epoche storiche. Molmenti si cimenta nella descrizione...

Das Buch ""Sir Thomas Malorys Le Morte D'Arthur Und Die Englische Arthurdichtung Des XIX Jahrhunderts"" von Schuler und Meier wurde im Jahr 1900 ver������ffentlicht. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit der englischen Arthurdichtung des 19. Jahrhunderts und dem...

Shakespeares Venus und Adonis im Verh�����ltnis zu Ovids Metamorphosen und Constables Schafergesang (1890) von Durnhofer, Max ist ein Buch, das sich mit der Beziehung zwischen Shakespeares Venus und Adonis, Ovids Metamorphosen und Constables...

Il libro ""Shakespeare Saggio Biografico Critico"" del 1855, scritto da Giuseppe Arnaud, ����� una biografia critica del famoso drammaturgo inglese William Shakespeare. L'autore esamina la vita e l'opera di Shakespeare, analizzando le sue opere pi�����...

Philippide de Guillaume Le Breton (1841) est un livre �����crit par Delepierre, Octave. Il s'agit d'une �����tude approfondie de l'�����uvre de Guillaume Le Breton, un chroniqueur fran�����ais du XIIIe si�����cle, qui a �����crit sur la vie et les...

Partonopeus De Blois V1 (1834) est un livre �����crit par Georges Adrien Crapelet. Il s'agit d'une �����dition de l'histoire de Partonopeus de Blois, un po�����me �����pique m�����di�����val fran�����ais. Le livre est le premier volume d'une s�����rie de...

New York School Collaborations gathers ten new essays from a diverse group of interdisciplinary scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York School poets, painters, musicians, and film-makers. Ranging from conceptual theatre to visual

Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Centre showcases a wide array of recent, innovative and original research into Shakespeare and learning in Australasia, in secondary, tertiary and adult education. Premised on the dissolution of the centre/colony binary...

Rejecting arguments that Shakespeare is either an absolutist or a partisan of civic republican values, this book argues that Shakespeare is essentially anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance...

In their sparse and isolated spaces, Samuel Beckett's figures imagine the touch of a lost love or dream of the comfort and care that the hands of a dear one might bring. Applying philosophical writings that feature sensation, particularly touch, Trish...

What's the worst thing you can do to Shakespeare? The answer is simple: don't read him. To that end, Richard Burt and Julian Yates embark here on a project of un/reading the Bard, through both reverent and irreverent discourse. Addressing recent critical...