Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books

Through a metaphorical journey of Shakespeare in traditional Chinese theatre, using three Chinese opera productions of Hamlet as signposts, the book discusses the relationship between Shakespeare and Chinese theatrical traditions.

Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance investigates the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists from within the context of the European Renaissance and, more specifically, from within the context of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary...

Contending that criticism of Marlowe's plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the...

Hate, malice, rage, and enmity: what would Shakespeare's plays be without these demonic, unruly passions? This book studies how the tirades and unrestrained villainy of Shakespeare's art explode the decorum and safety of our sanitized lives and challenge...

In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of democratic debate, the communication between the speaker and his audience in the public forum, whether the...

The 'infinite variety' of Shakespeare's Roman plays is reflected in the diversity of critical commentary to which they have given rise. Originally published in 1989, the distinguishing feature of this study is that it endeavours to convey a clear idea of...

'What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet.' So says Juliet in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet but, originally published in 1978, Murray Levith shows just how wrong Juliet was.Shakespeare was extremely...

The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists. Where many of them used the Machiavellian picture to draw one fair-faced scheming villain after another, Shakespeare...

Returning to Shakespeare addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the history of the plays' reception. Originally published in 1989, the collection represents the best of Brian Vickers' work from the previous...

For its eighteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time, across the whole spectrum of...

Die Buchreihe Theatrum Scientiarum versammelt originäre Beiträge am Schnittpunkt von Philosophie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Kultur- und Theaterwissenschaft. Der nunmehr vierte Band Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum machinarum fokussiert die Entstehung des...

The Modern Language Review is the official quarterly journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association. Published in January, April, July, and October each year, MLR contains articles and book reviews on modern and medieval European (including...

German literature from roughly 1750 to 1850 has a tradition of tragic drama unmatched by any other literature in that period. To an extent seldom recognized, this drama engages with political themes. Robertson traces these themes back to the thought of...

All's Well That Ends Well has baffled students, critics, and theater practitioners for centuries. But the confusing aspects of the play, both in its form and content, may be resolved when it is understood that the author was using the theater as a...

It is proposed that William Shakespeare did not write all of the sonnets bearing his name. This strictly independent publication compares and discusses all 154 'Shakespeare's' Sonnets with some remarkable findings. There are many valid reasons to...

""I Reali di Francia V2, Parte 2"" ����� un libro scritto da Andrea da Barberino e pubblicato nel 1900. Si tratta della seconda parte di una raccolta di storie e leggende riguardanti i re e i cavalieri francesi del Medioevo. Il libro ����� diviso in vari...

""I Fatti d'Enea"" ����� il secondo libro della ""Fiorita d'Italia"" scritto nel 1869 da Guido da Pisa. Questo libro racconta la storia di Enea, il leggendario fondatore di Roma, dal momento in cui abbandona Troia fino alla sua morte. Il racconto �����...

""I Costumi De' Germani E La Vita Di Agricola"" ����� un'opera storica scritta da Cornelio Tacito e pubblicata nel 98 d.C. Questo libro ����� diviso in due parti: la prima descrive i costumi e le tradizioni dei popoli germanici, mentre la seconda �����...

""Griechische Reisen Und Studien"" ist ein Buch von Johan Louis Ussing, das im Jahr 1857 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es enth�����lt eine Sammlung von Reiseberichten und Studien �����ber Griechenland, die der Autor w�����hrend seiner Aufenthalte in diesem...

Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect...

This is a collection of original essays about how Shakespeare and how his plays are increasingly being used as a means of furthering literacy, language arts, creative and dramatic learning for children in and out of the classroom. It is divided into...

This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The...

This book restores the rich tradition of the Sibyls to the position of prominence they once held in the culture and society of the English Renaissance. The sibyls - figures from classical antiquity - played important roles in literature, scholarship and...

This book insists upon a re-thinking of Western theories of Justice, arguing that injustice, not justice, should be the focus of our attention.

This title presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences.

An interdisciplinary exploration of white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s.

Euripides' Danae and Dictys are two of the most important and influential treatments of a popular tragic myth-cycle, which is unrepresented among extant plays. Moreover, they are early treatments of major Euripidean plot-patterns that anticipate and...

Jusqu’à la parution, en 1996, de «La littérature franco-ontarienne : enjeux esthétiques», les œuvres créées durant les années 1970 et 1980 en Ontario français avaient...

David Lonergan a beaucoup écrit sur le milieu culturel acadien au cours de sa carrière de journaliste et de chroniqueur. Dans «Regard sur la littérature acadienne (1972-2012)», il propose un regard éclairé...

In this expanded and much revised new edition Professor Holderness reassesses the Bard as a writer in the light of the most recent "revolution" in bibliography and textual studies. This has shifted much opinion about the playwright, how he worked, and...

This volume provides the first English translation of two articles by Wilhelm König, a Shakespeare scholar active in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century: 'Ueber die Entlehnungen Shakespeare's insbesondere aus Rabelais und einigen...

Joel B. Lande's Persistence of Folly challenges the accepted account of the origins of German theater by focusing on the misunderstood figure of the fool, whose spontaneous and impish jest captivated audiences, critics, and playwrights from the late...

Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth century, M-C. Newbould focuses on the role played by Laurence Sterne's fiction and its adaptations. Literary adaptation flourished throughout the eighteenth century,...

In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music-heard, imagined, or remembered-to infiltrate language. Such infected language reproduces not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its...

Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the...

Color Me Shakespeare is the new way to learn about Shakespeare while tapping into your creative side. Express yourself with color, relax, and make learning classic literature easy with beautifully designed coloring pages set alongside engaging summaries...

One of Europe's greatest playwrights, Caryl Churchill has been internationally celebrated for four decades. She has exploded the narrow definitions of political theatre to write consistently hard-edged and innovative work. Always unpredictable in her...

A Translation of Octavia, a Latin Tragedy, with Notes and Introduction, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by...

Richard Cuddington's light-hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's Sonnets captures the essence of the original texts but in a way that makes them instantly accessible and understandable to the modern reader.Originally published in 1609, many critics believe...

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This book explores the diverse means by which Shakespeare's poetry enriches his drama, illustrating how particular words in a particular order render his dialogue distinctive and create supreme literary and dramatic value.

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Rather than treating the plays as objects to be studied, described and interpreted, Engagements with Shakespearean Drama examines precisely what about Shakespeare's plays is so special - why they continue to be discussed and performed all around the...

This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out...

What is the role of disgust or revulsion in early modern English literature? How did early modern English subjects experience revulsion and how did writers represent it in poetry, plays, and prose? What does it mean when literature instructs, delights,...