(Pub. Date: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198896074)
What did work mean to Shakespeare? And what does it mean to work in Shakespeares plays? Work was a quintessential part of early modern society, as it is today. But the meanings attached to different forms of work were changing in important ways duri...More info...
Offering an accessible and wide-ranging account of how Shakespeare engaged with the working world around him, this book demonstrates that we can come to a richer understanding of Shakespeares dramatic output and cultural legacy if we attend to how...More info...
An introduction to Aristophanes much-debated utopian comedy, its social, cultural, political, and theatrical contexts, and its themes and reception. This is the first book-length introduction to Aristophanes play that is accessible to...More info...
The first collected works from celebrated American dramatist Gina Gionfriddo, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize...More info...
The Story of the Western Wing, one of Chinas most famous love operas, tells the story of Student Zhang and a teenage girl named Oriole who begin a passionate relationship in a Chinese monastery. The couple are promised to each other but onl...More info...
After ten long years spent away from Dublin, Richard, Bertha and their young illegitimate son Archie are back home. Despite expectations of comfort and domesticity, the couples return to the place where they first met triggers an existential questio...More info...
This volume posits that clothing in the early modern period was conceived of as the prime interface between the human body and its multiple environments. Both a second skin and a human-made artefact, dress can indeed be considered as the most immedia...More info...
Series: Elements in Contemporary Performance Texts
(Pub. Date: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009648226)
Dialogue is conceived of as verbal interaction between different people or groups such as spoken text between actors in performance. This Element focuses on how dialogue is manifested in dance and somatic practices, through sensory relationality a...More info...
Dialogue is conceived of as verbal interaction between different people or groups such as spoken text between actors in performance. This Element focuses on how dialogue is manifested in dance and somatic practices, through sensory relationality a...More info...
This collection contains four plays by contemporary Korean playwright Myung-Wha Kim - the first translated collection of Korean plays written by a female playwright - translated into English by Walter Byongsok Chon....More info...
This collection contains four plays by contemporary Korean playwright Myung-Wha Kim - the first translated collection of Korean plays written by a female playwright - translated into English by Walter Byongsok Chon....More info...
The work of Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, is intriguing but can also be challenging. This book series aims to offer a way into this complex oeuvre by analysing the genesis of Becketts bilingual (English/French) works...More info...
Brian Vickers, Daniel Starza Smith, Darren Freebury-Jones, Matthew Dimmock, Darren Freebury-Jones, Eugene Giddens, Adam Horsley, Domenico Lovascio, Rebekah Owens, Lucy Rayfield...
First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected works in over one hundred years, with major new discoveries of authorship and attribution....More info...
African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have emerged from performative, political, literary, and conceptual encounters with Shakespeare and his oeu...More info...
This book explores historical, socio-political and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage....More info...
Clear mirrors and scripture in English, revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeares drive towards a new purpose for drama....More info...
This is the first book on Richard III and the Tower of London, shedding new light on the Kings reputation, the Castles lore, and early-modern literatures role in building associations between them. It is also one of the first books to integrate conc...More info...
An original intervention in the critical history of Shakespeares most famous play, Histrionic Hamlet argues that the Danish Prince is a stage representation of a histrionic personality, incongruously thrown in the middle of ruthless high-stakes powe...More info...
Shakespeares Shrews investigates the echoes of two early modern discoursesparadoxical writing and the womans question or querelle des femmesin the representation of the Shakespearean shrew in The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and Othe...More info...
This book explores the diverse means by which Shakespeares poetry enriches his drama, illustrating how particular words in a particular order render his dialogue distinctive and create supreme literary and dramatic value....More info...
The book focuses on language in colonization,Renaissance poetry and Shakespeare, concentrating on text in context, close reading, interpretation, interpoetics and translation in poetry and prose, including epic, and the Hugo translation of Shakespea...More info...
It traces the evolution of the memory of Henry VIII in the century after his death, studying on Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline literary and dramatic texts down to Cromwells Protectorate. Tracing the ways in which Henry VIII was remembered in th...More info...
(Pub. Date: 14-May-2026, Hardback, Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare, ISBN-13: 9781350110854)
Tyranny, imperialism and political authority define Shakespeares enduring dramatic depiction of ruling power and regime change in ancient Rome. A touchpoint for characterising tyrannical leaders throughout the world, Julius Caesar h...More info...
Tyranny, imperialism and political authority define Shakespeares enduring dramatic depiction of ruling power and regime change in ancient Rome. A touchpoint for characterising tyrannical leaders throughout the world, Julius Caesar h...More info...
The third anthology of Trans plays from Methuen Drama, curated via an open submission policy, supporting vital trans voices in theatre, featuring plays with nuanced, authentic, and wonderfully messy representations of gender, race, and sexuality....More info...
In some rooms hes Martin. In others hes Martn. Hired by a well-funded arts institution on Chicagos Northside to create a show with Chicago youth about violence on the Southside, Marteen finds himself torn not only...More info...
The first collected works from celebrated American dramatist Gina Gionfriddo, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize...More info...
An introduction to Aristophanes much-debated utopian comedy, its social, cultural, political, and theatrical contexts, and its themes and reception. This is the first book-length introduction to Aristophanes play that is accessible to...More info...
Offering an accessible and wide-ranging account of how Shakespeare engaged with the working world around him, this book demonstrates that we can come to a richer understanding of Shakespeares dramatic output and cultural legacy if we attend to how...More info...
(Pub. Date: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198896074)
What did work mean to Shakespeare? And what does it mean to work in Shakespeares plays? Work was a quintessential part of early modern society, as it is today. But the meanings attached to different forms of work were changing in important ways duri...More info...
(Pub. Date: 09-Jun-2026, Calendar, Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781806941094)
This fun art calendar brings mans best friend to the stage of the world-renowned Shakespeares Globe, with 12 cute dogs attired appropriately in ruffs. Each photograph is accompanied by a little profile about the dog. The datepad features previous a...More info...
A razor-sharp comedy about privilege, party rings and the pressures of being a parent. A co-production between The Wardrobe Ensemble, Royal & Derngate, Northampton, and Lowry, premiered on a UK tour in 2026....More info...
After ten long years spent away from Dublin, Richard, Bertha and their young illegitimate son Archie are back home. Despite expectations of comfort and domesticity, the couples return to the place where they first met triggers an existential questio...More info...
The Story of the Western Wing, one of Chinas most famous love operas, tells the story of Student Zhang and a teenage girl named Oriole who begin a passionate relationship in a Chinese monastery. The couple are promised to each other but onl...More info...
