Drama

Oliver Cotton is a British stage and screen actor, well known for his work on stage, TV and film. In this, his first published stage play, Cotton draws on his own experience as he presents two actors …

Written by an international group of highly regarded scholars and rooted in the field of intermedial approaches to literary studies, this volume explores the complex aesthetic process of ‘picturing’ …

I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days. S …

The book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides” Andromache. Its presentation seeks to combine depth of analysis with clarity and accessibility. It di …

Often set in domestic environments and built around protagonists of more modest status than traditional tragic subjects, ”domestic tragedy” was a genre that flourished on the Renaissance stage from …

This volume is a comprehensive overview of scholarship on this play. It includes chapters on criticism, sources and background, textual studies, bibliographies, editions, and translations. Also cover …

These five short plays date from Brenton”s early involvement in such ”shoestring” groups as Portable Theatre. They are deliberately intended for the ”poor theatre” – as relevant today as when th …

This book explores a neglected feature of intellectual history and literature in the early modern period: the ways in which the body was theorized and represented as an intelligent cognitive agent, w …

Green in early modern England did not mean what it does today; but what did it mean? Unveiling various versions and interpretations of green, this book offers a cultural history of a color that illum …

The four plays in this volume represent just a small fraction of the total output by early modern women dramatists. Other plays will appear in later volumes in the facsimile series devoted to individ …