Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England offers a new approach to evaluating the psychological "loss" of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England. The author surveys the early modern cultural and literary response to Mary's marginalization; he argues that Shak…
This work studies the drama of the Restoration, in particular that of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis. It considers all the known plays of this period, including works by Dryden and Behn, in their historical context.
Restoration Theatre and Crisis is a seminal study of the drama of the Restoration, in particular that of the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis. This was a time of unprecedented political partisanship in the theatre. This book considers all the known plays of this period, includin…
Drie toneelstukken over de vloek die sedert generaties op het huis van de Atriden drukt.
Rage and Reason explores the work of 20 leading dramatists who discuss their work from the perspective of being both playwrights and women.
Women playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama. Twenty leading contemporary dramatists discuss their work from the perspective of being both writers and women. Each talks about the state of the theatre…
"This collection of essays makes a contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven into popular entertainment on the early modern stage. Rather than treating medicine, the theater, and literary texts separately, the contr…