Product Description: Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate...read more

Product Description: The album amicorum, or book of friends, a precursor to modern-day autograph books, originated in Germany in the middle of the sixteenth century and very quickly became fashionable among students moving from one university to another in the course of their academic careers...read more

Product Description: This book assembles a cast of sixteen distinguished theater historians and performance critics, each of whom has contributed significantly to our understanding of issues associated with performing works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries...read more

Product Description: This broad examination of women writers identified with Great Britain builds on its predecessor's strengths, with fifty percent new material as well as completely updated entries. Over 600 writers are discussed in terms of their biographies, with precise details where these could be ascertained and in some cases correcting biographies in other reference works, as well as thematic issues and critical reception...read more

Product Description: First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This collection presents twenty essays on twentieth-century plays by women, from Rachel Crothers to Meredith Monk, as well as overview essays on their predecessors. At least a dozen of the essays explicitly treat particular women's texts asdramas of rejection and rebellion.

Product Description: This work explores the phenomenon of dramatic closure within both an Aristotelian paradigm and contemporary reader-response theory. Examples of plays from Oedipus to the present appear throughout, and individual chapters discuss King Lear, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Ride Down Mount Morgan, and A Streetcar Named Desire...read more

Product Description: This work attempts to bring together the divided commitments of academics and theater people. Its method is threefold: scrutinizing the text for signals that may guide production, identifying and analyzing those moments that represent textual and performance cruces, and looking at ways in which performance interprets text by focusing on King Lear...read more

Product Description: Contributors present a revisioning of familiar texts that encourages a fuller understanding of the gender ideology of American literature and culture. Includes rereadings in feminist terms of plays by Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, and Sam Shepard...read more

Provides a brief overview of Miller's life and career, discusses each of his major plays, and identifies important themes in his work

A compilation of representative critical comments provides critical portraits of important late-nineteenth-and twentieth-century American writers, with bibliographies for all included authors