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 …

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 …

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 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’ …

Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about ‘Shakespeare’ as …

A knowledge of the history and evolution of the tales on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of his plays is essential for the understanding of his work. In re-telling a particular story, a Ren …

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 …

The Actor »s Career Bible is a practical guide to building an acting career. Based on a huge range of interviews with actors of all backgrounds at every level of the profession, industry experts, key …

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Contributions from …

This book adds a unique eastern perspective to the ever growing corpus of Shakespeare criticism. The ancient Sanskrit theory of Rasa the aesthete s emotional response to performing arts is explicated …