Author: Professor Russell Jackson

This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and reception of some of No l Coward’s most significant plays. It examines his worki …

This is the first book-length work to draw extensively on unpublished archive material to document the composition and reception of some of No l Coward’s most significant plays. It examines his worki …

"An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." – The Hollywood Reporter At the centre of his own universe sits m …

"An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." – The Hollywood Reporter At the centre of his own universe sits m …

One of the nineteenth century’s most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other of Wilde’s plays. Treating political intrigue, financial fr …

One of the nineteenth century’s most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other of Wilde’s plays. Treating political intrigue, financial fr …

”A Trivial Comedy for Serious People”: its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hid …

”A Trivial Comedy for Serious People”: its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hid …

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and i …

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and i …