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Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its g …

Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its g …

What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the fig …

What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the fig …

Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text. Focussing on num …

Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text. Focussing on num …

The guide to Renaissance Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1533-1642, including: – the historical, cultural and intellectual back …

John Ford”s tragedy ”Tis Pity She”s A Whore was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and …

King Lear is one of Shakespeare”s most performed and studied plays – seen as one of the most significant and universal tragedies of all time. This guide introduces the play”s critical and perf …

King Lear is one of Shakespeare”s most performed and studied plays – seen as one of the most significant and universal tragedies of all time. This guide introduces the play”s critical and perf …

John Ford”s tragedy ”Tis Pity She”s A Whore was first performed between 1629 and 1633 and since then its themes of incest, love versus duty and forbidden passion have made it a widely studied and …

The guide to Renaissance Literature and Culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1533-1642, including: – the historical, cultural and intellectual back …

Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious agency, with an emphasis on the conflict that occurr …

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. Essays from leading …

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. Essays from leading …

Coriolanus is the last and most intriguing of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies. Critics, directors and actors have long been bewitched by this gripping character study of a warrior that Rome can neither …

Coriolanus is the last and most intriguing of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies. Critics, directors and actors have long been bewitched by this gripping character study of a warrior that Rome can neither …

Staging Britain”s Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain”s pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent …

Staging Britain”s Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain”s pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent …

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic form that …

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic form that …

Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacious agency, as the growth of usury allowed financial signs to reproduce without …

Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent, efficacious agency, as the growth of usury allowed financial signs to reproduce without …

Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes. Materializi …

Despite the popularity of plays about the East, the representation of the East in early modern drama has been either overlooked, marginalized as footnotes or generalized into stereotypes. Materializi …

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays …

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays …