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Drama in Five Acts

Based on extensive archival research, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian perio …

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 …

First published in 2002. This collection of new essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging post-colonial period. Post-Colonial Shakespeares examines the ex …

’Becoming Female’, the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male h …

Filumena is Eduardo de Filippo”s best-known work and arguably his finest comedy, drenched in Neapolitan atmosphere and full of entanglements at once romantic and cynical. Set in the balmy heat of la …

These five short plays date from Brenton”s early involvement in such ”shoestring” groups as Portable Theatre. They are deliberately intended for the ”poor theatre” – as relevant today as when th …

Plays by one of Italy”s greatest dramatists Eduardo de Filippo was one of Italy”s leading popular dramatists, a fearless social critic, a supreme man of the theatre, and a humane and compassionate …

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 …

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 …

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 …