Richard Steele 
The Conscious Lovers [PDF ebook] 
A Comedy, as It Is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty’s Servants

This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson»s claim that Shakespeare had »small Latin and less Greek» and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare’ …

"A Fool There Was" by Porter Emerson Browne is a compelling drama delving into the tragic consequences of seduction, infidelity, and moral decline. At its core, the novel revolves around th …

Only a Girl" (original title: "Ein einziges Maedchen") by Wilhelmine von Hillern is a novel that explores the life and challenges of its protagonist, Gisela von Erstein, as she navigat …

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 …

Based on extensive archival research, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian perio …

Coming-of-age drama with sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love »I mean, the fact that Jesus chose to turn the water into wine, rather than just decontaminating it, proves that drinking alc …

This anthology examines Love»s Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; cha …

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 …

The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: ‘What is it that we read Shakespeare?’ The answer may seem self-evident: we read the words that Shakespeare wrote. But …