Drama

First published in 2002. This is the Volume III of the five G. Wilson Knight collected works series and focuses on Shakespeare’s tragic heroes for his early to later tragedies or Timon of Athens, Ant …

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 …

An investigation into modes of early modern English literary ”indirection, ” this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works. In th …

The first full length treatment of how men of different professions, social ranks and ages are empowered by their emotional expressiveness in early modern English literary works, this study examines …

A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of th …

Set in a world where how British you are is determined by the state, three women have been called in for interview. Sara looks kind of Asian. Scheherazade kind of Middle Eastern. And Sarah is kind of …

Oliver Cotton is a British stage and screen actor, well known for his work on stage, TV and film. In this, his first published stage play, Cotton draws on his own experience as he presents two actors …

Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational, mythical violence that is embedded within juridical discourse, Shakespeare’s Curse pursues a reading of Richard III, King John, and …

This collection explores the consequences of accentism—an under-researched issue that intersects with racism and classism—in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures, past and present. …

"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 …