This epochal drama of marriage and the individual portrays a controlling husband, Torvald Helmer, and his wife, Nora, a submissive young woman who, when their idealized home life collapses, comes to the realization that she must finally ...
This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays.
This book analyses the prodigal youth archetype in early modern drama, examining plays byShakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, Randolph, Chapman, Marston, Beaumont and Fletcher, Davenport, Gascoigne, Heywood, as well as anonymous works and ...
The Shakespearean Stage Space explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Renaissance playhouses.
An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.
The balance of the book uses Zen and Chaos theory to reveal new patterns and layers of meaning (or non meaning) in several of Beckett's most significant plays.
New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued.
Two years after their affair has ended, Emma and Jerry -- her husband's best friend -- meet and reflect on their illicit relationship.
Everyman and Mankind are morality plays that mark the turn of themedieval period to the early modern, with their focus on theindividual.