John Bale 
The Temptation of Our Lord [PDF ebook] 

‘Phoenician Women’, one of Euripides” later tragedies, is an intriguing play that arguably displays some of his finest dramatic technique. Rich in cast and varied in incident, it is an example of Eu …

A story of hope, from Afghanistan to Wales. Herat, Afghanistan, 2000. A young mother makes a speech demanding freedom for Afghan women, angering local Taliban leaders who issue a warrant for her exec …

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare”s play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Compa …

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 …

Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and curren …

First published in 1980. This collection of essays by the first General Editor of the New Arden Shakespeare brings together the best of Ellis-Fermor”s Shespearean criticism, in addition to outstandi …

Bucket List tells the story of the fight for justice against the effects of the corrupt capitalist regime in Mexico affecting some of the world”s poorest and most defenceless people. When her mother …

Born within a year of both Shaw and Wilde, Pinero was one of the most popular – and prolific – playwrights of his age. This volume contains his three best – and still most often performed – plays, ea …

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 …

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 …