Literary Criticism : Drama

One of the most brilliant, powerful, and theatrically astute of modern dramatists is South African playwright Athol Fugard ("MASTER HAROLD" ... and the boys)......

In this brilliant study, Marc Robinson explores more than two hundred years of plays, styles, and stagings of American theater. Mapping the changing cultural......

A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides a fascintating overview of modern theatre. Innes has selected three writers, Ibsen, Chekhov and Bernard Shaw to e......

"Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama" is the first significant collection of critical and historical essays on women's essential contributions to the Renai......

Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how ......

In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivi......

While Ben JonsonÇÂÙs political visions have been well documented, this is the first study to consider how he threaded his views into the various literary gen......

This volume addresses the work of women playwrights throughout the history of the American theatre, from the early pioneers to contemporary feminists. Each c......

Bilingualism in Development is an examination of the language and cognitive development of bilingual children focusing primarily on the preschool years. It ......

In this book Nicholas Grene explores political contexts for some of the outstanding Irish plays from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period. The p......

Christopher Bigsby explores the works and influences of ten contemporary American playwrights: John Guare (House of Blue Leaves), Tina Howe (Museum and Appro......

Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in all the ......

This innovative study examines the dialogue between Romantic poetry and the human sciences of the period. Maureen McLane reveals how Romantic writers partici......

In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and brings the......

John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theatres by parliamentary order in ......

Joyce Green MacDonald discusses the links between women's racial, sexual, and civic identities in early modern texts. She examines the scarcity of African wo......

This is the first monograph in English devoted to the most important of Seneca's tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from......

This interdisciplinary study combines legal, historical and literary approaches to the practice and theory of marriage in Shakespeare's time. It uses the his......

This is the first full-length study of Octauia, the only complete Roman drama of an historical subject, or fabula praetexta. The play deals with Nero's divor......

Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just society you must begin with the facts of human nature. This book argues that the idea of a un......