Often set in domestic environments and built around protagonists of more modest status than traditional tragic subjects, ”domestic tragedy” was a genre that flourished on the Renaissance stage from …

Aeschylus” ”Suppliants” dramatises the myth of the fifty daughters of Danaos, who flee Egypt and come to Argos as suppliants, trying to escape forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins. It was lon …

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 …

This book adds a unique eastern perspective to the ever growing corpus of Shakespeare criticism. The ancient Sanskrit theory of Rasa the aesthete s emotional response to performing arts is explicated …

Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, gods/goddesses, beliefs, and divinations to c …

Discover the power, resilience, and indomitable spirit of women who have shaped history. In her first collected works, Lauren Gunderson demonstrates why she has become one of America”s most produced …

"All for Love, or The World Well Lost" by John Dryden is a classic tragedy that delves into the tumultuous and tragic love affair between Antony and Cleopatra, set against a backdrop of pol …

First Published in 1966. This volume is a series of studies dealing with the authorship of sixteenth and seventeenth century plays. Many of the articles were initially published as part of ”Notes an …

The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recogni …

This book explores a neglected feature of intellectual history and literature in the early modern period: the ways in which the body was theorized and represented as an intelligent cognitive agent, w …