Empty Figure on an Empty StageThe Theatre of Samuel Beckett and His GenerationLes EssifAn original and exciting approach to the theatre of the absurd.This study considers the ways playwrights draw mea
A Century of Irish DramaWidening the StageEdited by Stephen Watt, Eileen Morgan, and Shakir MustafaForeword by Sivaun O'CaseyThe history of the Irish theatre from the founding of the Abbey to today's
"... a solid addition to international drama." —Library JournalGoing beyond the parameters of conventional literary drama, these seven new plays express life issues in post-apartheid South Africa—Isla
"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour
"... a thoughtful and important treatment of the international tensions of the period as they were embodied in theatre practice. It is the only book of its kind on the subject, and a valuable sou
Rowland (drama and English, U. of York, England) argues that the difficulty of establishing the relationship between text and performance is more acute with Heywood (1573-1641) than with any of his co
Considering plays by Philip Massinger, Richard Brome, Ben Jonson, John Ford and James Shirley, this study addresses the political import of Caroline drama as it engages with contemporary struggles ove
The issue of early modern European women on the professional stage is profoundly linked with, and usefully considered in conjunction with, the performative marketing of medicine and cosmetics, suggest
At the turn of the seventeenth century, Hristomir Stanev argues, ideas about the senses became part of a dramatic and literary tradition in England, concerned with the impact of metropolitan culture.
Arising from a seminar at the 2008 meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, this volume contains 14 contributed chapters, a lengthy introduction by the editors, and an afterword. The focus i
Even a cursory glance at early modern drama reveals that it was fascinated by the issue of fraught intergenerational relations. Why, though, was elder-youth conflict the subject of so many of the peri
Considering major works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton and Webster among others, this book transforms current understanding of early modern revenge tragedy. Examing the genre in light of historical re
North American scholars of English literature focus on the representational gaps created by theatrical materiality and performance, to probe for a deeper understanding of how references to contemporar
Drawing on the generic and mythic strength of comedy and the theories of Bakhtin, Bergson, and Hobbes, this book identifies the radical nature of early modern English comedy. The satirical comedic act
