John Bale 
The Temptation of Our Lord [PDF ebook] 

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 …

Contributors to this collection delve into the relationship between Rome and Shakespeare. They view the presence of Rome in Shakespeare”s plays not simply as an unquestioned model of imperial cultur …

Despite the outpour of interpretations, from critics of all schools, on Shakespeare”s dramatic works and other poetic works, A Lover”s Complaint has been almost totally ignored by criticism. This c …

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 …

Two plays for young people by one distinctive voice. Diary of An Action Man and Whiter Than Snow reveal an imagination that has raised the writer Mike Kenny onto the international stage. Renowned for …

‘I looked around the room and I thought, I”m the only person in this room that hasn”t killed anyone’ Talking to Terrorists is a play commissioned by the Royal Court and Out of Joint. The writer, di …

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 …

It seems a long way from Moliere to Ray Cooney. There are immense distances between the worlds of Aristophanes, Plautus, Georges Feydeau, Ben Travers, Joe Orton and Basil Fawlty. But as one of the ol …

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 …