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A critical study of the theatre produced in the 1950s with an in-depth analysis of the work of four key playwrights from the decade.

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Part of the Decades of Modern British Playwriting series, the volume provides a critical survey of the theatre produced in the 1960s together with detailed studies by a team of experts of the work of Edward Bond, John Arden, Harold Pinter and Alan Ayckbourn.

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A critical study of the theatre of the 1960s with an in-depth analysis of the work of four key playwrights.

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A critical study of the theatre produced in the 1970s with an in-depth analysis of the work of four key playwrights from the decade.

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Essential for students of theatre studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to the present. Each volume features a critical analysis of the work of four key playwrights from that decade, together with an extensive commentary on the period.

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A critical study of the theatre produced in the 1980s with an in-depth analysis of the work of four key playwrights from the decade.

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A critical study of the theatre produced in the 1990s with an in-depth analysis of the work of four key playwrights from the decade.

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Shakespeare's plays have never had a larger audience than they do in our time. This wide viewing is complemented by modern scholarship, which has verified and elucidated the plays' texts. Nevertheless, Shakespeare's plays continue to be revised. In order to find out how and why he has been rewritten, Ruby Cohn examines modern dramatic offshoots in

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Since its Golden Age, Spanish drama has evolved in considerably unintended and unexpected ways with the contemporary playwrights of any present time engaging in experimental forms and treating current political issues intended to modernize, reformulate, and re-conceptualize the State and the stage.

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This bibliography provides a comprehensive record of verse drama in modern literature. The volume begins with an introduction, which discusses the significance of verse drama in modern theater, and which overviews the history and intent of modern verse drama.

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'Moliere on Stage' takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Moliere's plays, and analyzes the performance of his works in both his own time and ours.

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This book is not a mere study of Shakespeare's debt to Montaigne. It traces the evolution of self-consciousness in literary, philosophical and religious writings from Antiquity to the Renaissance and demonstrates that its early modern forms first appeared in the Essays and in Shakespearean drama. -- .

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Mother Bombie is unique among Lylys comedies. Structured upon a Roman New Comedy model, the play turns on a tissue of misconceptions surrounding the efforts of four fathers to secure socially advantageous marriages for their heirs and the determination of their young servants to exploit their masters aspirations for their own advantage.

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Examines the political rhetoric of Mary I, Elizabeth and James, reported gallows confessions of mother convicts and the increasingly popular Puritan conduct books

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Studies the mother figure in English drama from the mid-sixteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. This book explores a range of genres from popular mystery and moral plays to drama written for the court and universities and for the commercial theatres, including history plays, comedies, tragedies, romances and melodrama.

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Identifies musical terms found in the Shakespeare canon. This book, an A-Z of over 300 entries, includes a definition of each musical term in its historical and theoretical context, and explores the extent of Shakespeare's use of musical imagery across the full range of his dramatic and poetic work.

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First published: London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.

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The entries are arranged alphabetically, and the volume's appendices include a chronological table of kabuki history, a list of all major or formal play titles, a list of all variant or popular titles, genealogical charts, and a list of all major actors' stage nicknames (yago) currently in use.

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