William Shakespeare 
The First Part of the Contention Between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, &C., 1594 [PDF ebook] 

In recent years the twin themes of travel and translation have come to be regarded as particularly significant to the study of early modern culture and literature. Traditional notions of »The Renais …

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 …

Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category “human” is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the p …

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 …

»The modern English theatre has had its poets and it has had its dramatists but in John Arden it has acquired its first dramatic poet since — well, let»s be rash — the days of Shakespeare.» — Sund …

‘Here»s to Col»s numpty maw and paw for leaving him home alone and expecting everything to stay the way it was. Suckas!’ When you»re only sixteen, could the events of one night really shape the co …

Shakespeare in Children’s Literature looks at the genre of Shakespeare-for-children, considering both adaptations of his plays and children’s novels in which he appears as a character. Drawing on fem …

This edition contains two of Frances Burney»s comedies: The Witlings, (1778-80) which satirizes the bluestockings; and The Woman Hater (1800-02), which explores social pretension and gender conflict …

A knowledge of the history and evolution of the tales on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of his plays is essential for the understanding of his work. In re-telling a particular story, a Ren …

The four plays in this volume represent just a small fraction of the total output by early modern women dramatists. Other plays will appear in later volumes in the facsimile series devoted to individ …