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Illuminates the religious life of Elizabethan England, promotes an understanding of Shakespeare's plays, and uses Shakespeare's works to examine religious culture. This book offers an overview of the origins of Elizabethan religious traditions, followed by a consideration of the chief religious beliefs and concerns of Shakespeare's world.

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How did dramatists engage with the unprecedented levels of socio-cultural and intellectual change in Renaissance England, a time when ideas of identity, sexuality, social order, religion and state power were in flux The book provides a contextual introduction to the work of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson, Dekker, Webster, Middleton and Ford.

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"A study of the many reworkings and adaptations of classic plays on the modern stage which illuminates how each is shaped by or reacts against the prevailing mores of the day"--

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"A study of the many reworkings and adaptations of classic plays on the modern stage which illuminates how each is shaped by or reacts against the prevailing mores of the day"--

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Examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. This book also demonstrates the importance of gender, kinship, and sexuality to the making of democratic civic ideology.

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A perfect companion to British theatre from 2000-2010 that examines the burgeoning 'new writing' system, provides a study of the principle theatres associated with it and explores in themed chapters the key concerns being addressed by the main playwrights who have gained acclaim in the last ten years.

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Roman drama is a genre of Latin literature that was influential both in the cultural life of the ancient Romans and in the European theatre tradition. This anthology provides an overview of the literary genre, including its various subtypes (tragedy, praetexta, comedy, togata, mime) and its historical development.

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This book is a thorough examination and fresh interpretation of Shakespeares presentation of the final throes of republican Romes decay and demise and the rise of Caesarism. Speech by speech and line by line, it brings out Shakespeares understanding of the political substance and the historical significance of republican Romes collapse.

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"The subject matter of these essays is rich and diverse, ranging across the play's philosophical identification of sexual love with self-realization, the hermeneutic implications of an editor's textual choices, the minor characters of the play in relation to Renaissance performance traditions, Romeo and Juliet in opera and ballet, and the play's Italian sources and afterlives" --

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A study of Romeo and Juliet which examines every aspect of the play, including texts and contexts, thematic and critical issues, and performances.

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Angela Thirlwell's acclaimed biography, now in paperback. An imaginative literary portrait of the most enduring female character in the canon of English drama: Rosalind (As You Like It)

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The North of Ireland has long been plagued by violent conflict, and dramatic works from that region often reflect the ongoing social turmoil. Each work was either written by a writer from the North of Ireland or was staged in the North, and all the plays discussed either directly or indirectly confront issues of sectarian conflict.

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Gross here provides an immensely detailed record of the primary materials, published and unpublished, including plays, filmscripts, fiction, and essays, and of the critical response, both reviews and analytical studies.

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Finding the dramatist difficult to classify, critics and scholars continue to search for the central direction of Shepard's creative development. Lynda Hart's study, which focuses on ten representative plays, is the first book to examine Shepard's growth and development as a dramatist within and against the historical tradition.

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Samuel Beckett and trauma, the collection of eight essays by leading academics, broadens and enriches the present fields of both trauma studies and Beckett studies by illuminating the uniqueness of the trauma in Becketts work in relation to historical contexts. It also provides new perspectives for discussing trauma and literature more generally.