Edith Wharton 
The Custom of the Country [EPUB ebook] 

Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational, mythical violence that is embedded within juridical discourse, Shakespeare’s Curse pursues a reading of Richard III, King John, and …

‚Here“s to Col“s numpty maw and paw for leaving him home alone and expecting everything to stay the way it was. Suckas!‘ When you“re only sixteen, could the events of one night really shape the co …

Darker Shores is a Victorian ghost story which manages to be playfully intelligent, emotionally resonant and also quite scary. Its ghoulish atmosphere, biblical fanaticism and dark, knowing wit resul …

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 …

Shakespeare in Children’s Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children’s novels in which he appears as a character. Drawing on fem …

Idioms of Self-Interest uncovers an emerging social integration of economic self-interest in early modern England by examining literary representations of credit relationships in which individuals ar …

‚Becoming Female‘, the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male h …

Filumena is Eduardo de Filippo“s best-known work and arguably his finest comedy, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once romantic and cynical. Set in the balmy heat of la …

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 …

Aeschylus“ “Suppliants“ dramatises the myth of the fifty daughters of Danaos, who flee Egypt and come to Argos as suppliants, trying to escape forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins. It was lon …