Drama

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 …

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 …

Despite the volume of work Shakespeare produced, surprisingly few of his plays directly concern money and the economic mindset. Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative examines the five plays that do …

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 …

This edition contains two of Frances Burney»s comedies: The Witlings, (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings; and The Woman Hater (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict …

Think how many others there are like me, hiding in the shadows, operating in the night like foxes, for fear of rejection and a life of ridicule. I»ve worked too hard to gain my respect only for it t …

"The Peddler Spy; or, Dutchmen and Yankees" by W. J. Hamilton is a historical fiction novel set during the American Revolution, weaving a tale of espionage and adventure. The story centers …

Search Party by George Birmingham is a gripping mystery and adventure novel centered around a suspenseful search operation. The story unfolds as a group of individuals becomes embroiled in a complex …

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 …