Originally published in 1971, this book elucidates Becketts work in the light of his concern with literary form. This is seen as an increasingly compressed and dense medium for the purer and purer statement of his view of mans existence....Loe edasi...
Shakespeares most powerful female character, her historical inspiration, and her reinventions in performance through the centuries. She is more violent than Lady Macbeth, more complex than Ophelia, more strategic than Lear’s daughters. She i...Loe edasi...
This book examines the plays Thomas Middleton wrote for the King’s Men between 1620 and 1624, arguing that they constitute one of the most sustained and ambitious engagements with contemporary politics in early modern English drama. Situating thes...Loe edasi...
This Element reconsiders the historical, theoretical, racial, disability, and editorial problem of genealogy by analysing genealogies in the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio: the Salic Law speech in Henry V and the seven sons scene in Henry VI, Part...Loe edasi...
Argues that Shakespeares plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate them or make them feminist....Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
This comprehensive guide to Shakespeares Sonnets provides an overview of the main themes, features and contexts as well as close readings of more than one hundred sonnets. This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the...Loe edasi...
This volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about Antony and Cleopatra across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within, and their impact on, the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement of the text-e...Loe edasi...
This edited collection gathers contributions by Shakespeare scholars from a wide range of countries, both European and non-European, representing many different cultures. It is divided into three sections: translation, appropriation and performanc...Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
Performing Paradise offers a groundbreaking reassessment of one of the most influential yet misunderstood theatrical experiments of the twentieth century. Performing Paradise offers a groundbreaking reassessment of one...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526147318)
Massacres in Early Modern Drama analyses the dynamically ambivalent meanings constructed by the language and action of massacre on the early modern stage. Informed by theories drawn from massacre studies, the monograph challenges orthodoxies about s...Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowiczs life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century literature and theatre, providing intertextual perspectives that allow readers to analyze his short stories, plays, and n...Loe edasi...
The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare....Loe edasi...
