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 …

English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing tha …

Ecofeminism has been an important field of theory in philosophy and environmental studies for decades. It takes as its primary concern the way the relationship between the human and nonhuman is both …

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 …

"A Fool There Was" by Porter Emerson Browne is a compelling drama delving into the tragic consequences of seduction, infidelity, and moral decline. At its core, the novel revolves around th …

Born within a year of both Shaw and Wilde, Pinero was one of the most popular – and prolific – playwrights of his age. This volume contains his three best – and still most often performed – plays, ea …

Shakespeare Inside goes behind the scenes to reveal Shakespeare at work in the most decisive institutional context of our time – in prisons. Based upon the author”s experience of watching prison yar …

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 …

Published in 1575 and acted at Christ”s College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward VI”s reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewing needle, which is finally retrieved from the …

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 …