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This collection of social, cultural, and historical documents and popular materials, with linking explanations and commentary, will help the reader to study the play in the context of its time and cultural background.

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Through selection of primary historical documents, the work provides contexts for understanding Hamlet's melancholy, the ghost of Hamlet's father, the theme of revenge, and Hamlet's feigned madness.

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This rich interdisciplinary collection of primary materials and commentary about Shakespeare's Macbeth will help student and teacher explore historical, literary, theatrical, social, and political issues related to the play.

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Although Othello has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, its performance history has been marked with risk and tension because of the play's focus on racial prejudice, gender conflict, and sexuality.

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A collection of commentary and primary documents on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

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This lively gathering of materials about Shakespeare's Julius Caesar will enrich students' understanding of the historical context of the play and encourage interpretations of its cultural meaning.

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This interdisciplinary casebook provides a variety of primary historical documents and commentary on The Crucible within the context of two relevant historical periods.

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The Tempest has always been one of Shakespeare's most entertaining and enchanting plays, but it continues to stir up passionate debate throughout the world because of its ideas and attitudes toward race, class, political power and colonialism.

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This comprehensive, detailed study of Wilder's entire dramatic oeuvre is the only one to place the works in their broad aesthetic and philosophical context and to integrate literary analysis of the plays with interpretation of their theatrical techniques.

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Aristophanes has enjoyed a revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides a critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright in modern Greek culture.

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In their mock Georgian house on an exclusive estate, Rob and Hattie are preparing Sunday lunch for friends and neighbours - but all is not going to plan. Their seemingly cosy world of comfort and safety is about to explode. When you've got everything you thought you wanted, how come you still want more

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Presents a comprehensive introduction to Ben Jonson's "Volpone" - introducing its critical history, performance history, critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including recent versions on stage and screen.

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As perhaps the best-known and most-studied work in the canon of Shakespeare's leading contemporary rival, Ben Jonson's "Volpone" (1606) is a particularly important play for thinking about early modern drama as a whole. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including recent versions on stage and screen.

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Aims to promote sophisticated literary analysis through the concept of character. This book demonstrates the necessity of linking character analysis to texts, themes, issues and ideas, and encourages students to embrace the complexity of literary characters and the texts in which they appear. It provides an introductory study of Beckett's play.

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Aims to promote literary analysis through the concept of character. This book demonstrates the necessity of linking character analysis to texts, themes, issues and ideas, and encourages students to embrace the complexity of literary characters and the texts in which they appear. It provides an introductory study of Beckett's famous play.

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This introductory guide to one of Webster's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading.

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To understand Eliot's weighty contribution to the pantheon of modernism, one must take account of his dramatic career. Further, they contain a richly suggestive autobiographical vein that illuminates the persona and psyche of Eliot the playwright and, as well, throwbacks to Eliot as a younger poet and critic.

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Shakespearean actor Nick Asbury travel across England, visiting the locations that feature in the famed History cycle of plays, written by the worlds greatest playwright. Giving a unique insight into British history, Asbury also sheds light on the life of an actor revisiting the lands and haunts of the characters he once played.

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William Saroyan, one of the most prolific writers in America, was the first playwright to win simultaneously both the New York Drama Critics' Circle award and the Pulitzer Prize in playwriting for The Time of Your Life in 1940.