Thomas Dekker & Thomas Middleton 
The Roaring Girl [PDF ebook] 

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 …

’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 …

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 …

I suppose I”m a believer in Original Sin. People are profoundly bad but irresistibly funny” Joe Orton. This volume contains everything that Orton wrote for the theatre, radio and television from hi …

Coming-of-age drama with sideways glance at evangelical and Sapphic love ”I mean, the fact that Jesus chose to turn the water into wine, rather than just decontaminating it, proves that drinking alc …

Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare”s plays afresh. The book offers new insights into the historical conditions within which Shakesp …

Othello”s Secret uncovers the relationship between the play and the conflicts that have torn apart its Cypriot setting, providing a new and powerfully political reading. Exploring the domestic and m …

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 …

’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 …