Carolyn Williams 
Cambridge Companion to English Melodrama [PDF ebook] 

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on »European Shakespeares», proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare»s literary craft was not just nativ …

What do »stage directions» do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination via the page? Is the label »stage direction» helpful or misleading? Do the …

‘A manual full of enabling, easing exercises – it will enable you to analyse any scene. The cry of the actor at sea `I don»t know what I»m doing» should, with this book, become a thing of the past …

In this first volume of notebooks, Edward Bond reveals himself to be one of the finest and most creative minds to have emerged in the twentieth century. Exploring the meeting point between politics a …

Twenty-two leading experts on early modern drama collaborate in this volume to explore three closely interconnected research questions. To what extent did playwrights represent dramatis personae in t …

Focusing on eighteenth-century cultural productions, Wendy Sutherland examines how representations of race in philosophy, anthropology, aesthetics, drama, and court painting influenced the constructi …

In early modern Spain, theater reached the height of its popularity during the same decades in which Spanish monarchs were striving to consolidate their power. Jodi Campbell uses the dramatic product …

P’ansori is the quintessential traditional Korean musical drama, in which epic tales are sung and narrated by a solo singer accompanied by a drummer. Drawing on her extensive research in Korea and it …

Considering major works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton and Webster among others, this book transforms current understanding of early modern revenge tragedy. Examing the genre in light of historical r …

Performing Maternity in Early Modern England features essays that share a common concern with exploring maternity»s cultural representation, performative aspects and practical consequences in the pe …