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Galatea
A brand new Revels Student Edition of John Lyly's most popular and enchanting play
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Endymion
Full and comprehensive commentary. Solid and scholarly introduction. A welcome edition to this renouned series .
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Early modern drama and the theatre of war
This volume explores the disruptive effects of war and social unrest in early modern drama, offering new examinations of militarism, the soldier-figure and early modern theories of war in Shakespearean tragedy, history and comedy.
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The woman in the moon
The Woman in the Moon is the last of Lyly’s plays and the only one of his works to be written primarily in verse. Newly edited from the first edition of 1597, this latest contribution to the prestigious Revels Plays series is the first fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of the play.
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Campaspe and sappho and phao
One of a series of play texts by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists other than Shakespeare, this volume discusses the plays "Campaspe" and "Sappho and Phao" by John Lyly. The series aims to throw light on the plays and to offer views of the plays that have been neglected in the past.
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Obsessions of a showwoman
The book foregrounds the important lineage of incredible women working across performance, live art and cabaret and asks how the term 'Showwoman' can transgress the figure of the showman as a provider of the spectacular. It encourages the showgirl to finally graduate into adulthood. 60 illus.
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Old fortunatus
Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker’s Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition mak...
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Dido, queen of carthage
The first single-text scholarly edition in English. An indispensable resource for scholars, students, and theatre practitioners. Edited by Ruth Lunney.
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Edward the second
The introduction to this edition contains an analysis of the first quarto (including new evidence of its original dating) and a reconsideration of the play's complex relation to the Shakespearean histories that preceded and followed it. Charles R. Forker offers a discussion of Marlowe's use of so...
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The false one
This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher and Massinger’s The False One, with an introduction that offers new insights on the date and the theatre of the play’s first performance, freshly examines its sources and explores the theatrical potential of a play that...
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Shakespeare by mcbean
A play-by-play picture compendium of the world’s greatest dramatist as captured by the world’s greatest theatre photographer
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The witch of edmonton
The Witch of Edmonton has received considerable attention recently both from scholars and critics interested in witchcraft practices and also from the directors in the theatre. The play, based on a sensational witchcraft trial of 1621, presents Mother Sawyer and her local community in the grip of...
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Doctor faustus, a- and b- texts 1604
This volume in the "Revel Plays" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions of Marlowe's play, arguing that the two cannot be conflated into one. Included are sources and commentary, literary criticism, style and staging/performance assessments.
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Play time
An important re-theorisation of medieval gender and anti-Semitism, centring biblical drama as a source of evidence for lay attitudes towards scriptural time. Interrogating the Christian preoccupation with a superseded Jewish past, the book asks how this model is subverted by characters who experi...
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Toussaint louverture
This is a new critical edition of an unjustly forgotten drama by Alphonse de Lamartine, written in the early 1840s. It draws a compelling image of Toussaint Louverture, the father of Haitian Independence.
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Los siete planetas
Although the 17th Century playwright Enríquez Gomez was well known for his comedies, Los Siete Planetas is a surprisingly orthodox play.
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Le comte d'essex
This is a volume in the series Textes littéraires/Exeter French Texts. If Elizabeth I of England thought to rid herself forever of Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex, by sending him to the scaffold she was very much mistaken, since his name, intertwined with hers, has traversed four centuries.
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Le mariage force
The principal aim of this edition is to provide a reliable version of the text of Le Mariage forcé which can be used by students and scholars of 17th-century theatre. The book includes all the texts which existed in Molière’s lifetime.
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Drame a toulon
This play dramatises a French sailor’s protest in 1948-49 against the brutality of the French military conduct of the Indochina war. Henri Martin was imprisoned for five years for distributing pamphlets. The struggle to get him released became the ‘Henri Martin Affair’, and this play was a vital ...
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Michel strogoff
This is the first critical edition of a Verne play; the book also contains many of his unpublished letters. His theatrical work (40 plays and synopses) was, until now, almost unknown, even though Michel Strogoff was among the greatest successes of the late-19th century theatre.
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Jean calas
Critical edition, edited by Malcolm Cook, of 5-act tragedy by Marie-Joseph Chénier (1764-1811), first performed in 1791.
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Empsaël et zoraïde
This new edition of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s play Empsaël et Zoraïde, presented in a modernised spelling, makes available a text which illustrates his abolitionist stance through its central irony: the masters are black and their slaves white, joining forces in the antislavery debate which rea...
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Othello
The French-language adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello by Jean-François Ducis was first performed in Paris in 1792. This book is a critical edition, with introduction, notes and bibliography, and the original text of the play, all in French.
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La mort des enfans d'herodes
The play La Mort des Enfans d’Herode was first performed in Paris in 1639. This book is a critical edition, with introduction, notes and bibliography, and the original text of the play, all in French.
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L’ art de régner
L’Art de Régner is a tragi-comedy by Gillet de La Tessonerie, first published in 1645. It is unusual in that structurally each of its five acts is a separate playlet. The sub-title, Le Sage Gouverneur, refers to the role of a royal tutor, probably meant to be the duc de Bassompierre, to whom the ...
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Mariamne
A critical edition of Alexandre Hardy's Mariamne, a tragedy drawing on the story of the wife of Herod the Great. First published in 1989 by University of Exeter Press, it is part of the Textes Litteraires series.
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Beverlei
An eighteenth-century "bourgeois tragedy", written in an English style. This is an important text, which provides an appreciation of the spirit of the era, and demonstrates the bridging of comic and tragic theatre styles.
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Le philinte de molière
Le Philinte de Molière was first published in 1791 and is here produced with variants from the manuscript held in the Bibliothèque nationale and with a selection of contemporary reviews of the first performance in 1790.
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Le jodelet ou le maistre valet
Critical edition of the comedy dating from 1664.
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Alexandre le grand
A critical edition by Michael Hawcroft and Valerie Worth of Racine's 1665 tragedy.
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John mcgrath - plays for england
This is an edition of nine of McGrath's plays for the English 7:84 theatre company. It covers McGrath's work for the company spanning four decades, from the 1960s through to the 1990s. The book has a substantial contextualising introduction and commentary on the plays by Nadine Holdsworth, one of...
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La matrone chinoise
La Matronne Chinoise is a new critical edition of a two-act comedy by Pierre-René Lemonnier. The edition is accompanied by a full introduction setting out the play’s historical and thematic context, along with an analysis of its versification, and by an appendix reproducing earlier versions of th...
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Le triomphe des cinq passions
Gillet de La Tessonerie’s tragi-comedy is an unusual example in French seventeenth-century theatre of a ‘play within a play’. The play has not been reprinted since 1645 and is an important example of diversity in early French classical theatre.
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La hollande malade
The book is a critical edition of La Hollande Malade, a comedy in one act by Raymond Poisson. La Hollande Malade, written in 1673, is a satirical and allegorical comedy.
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Dynamis
Rohou interprets Dynamis as an orthodox tragi-comedy that reflects both the political concerns of the late 1640s and the developments in dramaturgy which had taken place over the previous decade or so. Rohou is most helpful in pointing out, in footnotes and a brief glossary, differences between D...
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Le voile et le mirage
Known principally for Bruges-la-Morte, Georges Rodenbach is also the author of other works worthy of present-day study. This volume contains the texts of two of his plays: Le Voile enacts a whole network of themes with a connection to Bruges, while Le Mirage adapts Bruges-la-Morte for the stage.
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L'eugene
Eugène, is a comedy satirizing the clergy, one of three plays by Étienne Jodelle, a French 16th-century dramatist and poet. Text, introduction and notes are all in French.
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Venceslas
A tragi-comedy first performed in Paris in 1648.
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Shakespeare and manchester
Both a theatrical and a cultural history, it examines the makers of an urban, libertarian, Mancunian Shakespeare using hitherto unexplored primary sources, principally a rich trove of digitised newspapers. It contextualises Manchester’s engagement with Shakespeare’s works in the light of Victoria...
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Shakespeare and authorial networks in early modern drama
Using social network theory, this book analyses how intertextual exchanges with other playwrights shaped Shakespeare’s plays and influenced his engagement with early modern literary, institutional and patronage networks.
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Dramatic movement of african american women
This book intends to explore the nature, scope, and features of African American women’s theatre and dramas. It exhibits African American women dramatists’ expertise, mechanics, methods, and artistic elements as well as the major themes projected in their dramas. The book is about a dramatic move...
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Lovefuries
David Ian Rabey is one of the most explosive, pioneering, and erotic playwrights ever to emerge from Wales. Lovefuries features three of his performance texts that flaut national and personal pressure to keep silent, committing instead to explore the shocking resurgences of life that break throug...
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Theater in the middle east
The collected essays from noteworthy dramatists and scholars in this book represent new ways of understanding theater in the Middle East not as geographical but transcultural spaces of performance. What distinguishes this book from previous works is that it offers new analysis on a range of theat...
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Tennessee williams, t-shirt modernism and the refashionings of theater
Tennessee Williams, T-shirt Modernism and the Refashionings of Theater engages the Williams we thought we knew, as he grew, developed, reconfigured himself into a playwright we didn’t, in his attempts to refashion himself amid the vortices of changing sexual mores, including the performance of ma...
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Screen performance and the shakespeare film canon in the spotlight of archivision
Revolutions in post-digital archival practice and other forms of historical research necessitate an increasingly sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to Shakespeare studies, with Shakespeare-based films serving as an ideal model for the ongoing transformations of many disciplinary fields.
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Finding the way to 'long day's journey into night'
A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill t...
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Rabindranath tagore's drama in the perspective of indian theatre
‘Rabindranath Tagore's Drama in the Perspective of Indian Theatre’ examines Tagore’s plays from the viewpoint of Indian dramatic/performance traditions, locating him as a playwright, performer and director in the panoramic continuum of Indian dramatic/performance traditions.
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Tribunal
Vladimir Voinovich’s Tribunal: A Courtly Comedy in Three Acts is a wildly satiric send-up of the 1960s/1970s Soviet show-trials by a Soviet dissident who was sometimes called ‘Russia’s greatest living satirist.’ Voinovich is also the author of Moscow 2042 and The Life and Extraordinary Adventures...
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The theatre of fake news
This book examines the topic of ‘fake news’ through the lens of theatre and drama, looking at the way in which issues of audience, authorship, and accuracy are intertwined.
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The world as it goes
Despite a recent surge of scholarly interest in Hannah Cowley’s works, her scandalous comedy The World as It Goes has never been published. This edition of The World as It Goes is supplemented with an introduction providing cultural, theatrical, historical and biographical contexts and contempora...
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Chinese tv in the netflix era
This book aims to provide an account of Chinese television, particularly online drama series, or webisodes, with an awareness of the existence and competition of Netflix.
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Tv drama in china
This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution and consumption of TV drama, the international team of experts demonstrate why it remains the pre-eminent media form in China. The examples are diverse, hi...
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Cross and dragon – matteo ricci and china
In an epic historical story that talks directly to our times, Cross and Dragon dramatizes the life of one of the most famous Western figures in China: Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci. Sent by the Pope in the late 16th century to convert the Chinese Emperor, Ricci was faced with a “mission impossible”...
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The tragedy of hamlet
Hamlet (1601) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Inspired by Danish historian Saxo Grammatica’s legend of Amleth, which Shakespeare likely encountered in a retelling by French scholar Francois de Belleforest, Hamlet was written sometime between 1599 and 1601. Alongside Romeo and Juliet, it is o...
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Journey
The Gateway Theatre Company between 1953 and 1965 was a major force in developing modern Scottish theatre. This book provides brief histories of the building and the company incorporating much original research, an essay on the links between the theatre and the Church of Scotland and appreciation...
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Disability arts and culture
What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning-making? Disability Arts and Culture: Methods and Approaches seeks the answer to this question and more in an exploration of disability studies within the arts and beyond.
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Magnet theatre
For three decades, Cape Town's Magnet Theatre has served as a crucial space for theatre, education, performance and community throughout a turbulent period in South African history. Offering a dialogue between internal and external perspectives, this book analyses Magnet's many productions and pr...
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As you like it
A detailed account of the performance history of As You Like It through the modern period, focusing on landmark stage and film productions.
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Theatre, time and temporality
Theatre, Time and Temporality is the first book-length exploration of the subject of temporality within theatre and performance. David Ian Rabey brings in sources ranging from medieval and Renaissance theatre to contemporary performances to analyse ways that time can be presented, communicated an...
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Freaks of history
Freaks of History presents two dramatic explorations of disability within the wider themes of sexuality, gender, foreignness and the Other. MacDonald recognizes that disability narratives are rarely written by and for disabled people. Therefore his plays, accompanied by critical essays and direct...
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Sites of performance
‘Sites of Performance: Of Time and Memory’ focuses on the impact of time and memory as they intersect and constitute the varied spaces of theatre, performance and installation art.
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Dance, disability and law
This collection is the first book to focus on the intersection of dance, disability, and the law. Bringing together a range of writers from different disciplines, it considers the question of how we value, validate, and speak about diversity in performance practice, with a specific focus on the e...
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Mary of nemmegen
A prose condensation in English of the Middle Dutch play this is an important example of the literature that was imported from Holland in the early part of the 16th century. An analogue of the Faustus story, it is also a window on the obsession in its own time with the occult.
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Plays in time
Karen Malpede's four plays are set during influential events from the late twentieth century to the present: the Bosnian war and rape camps; the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon; 9/11 and the US torture programme; and the heroism of climate scientists facin...
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Justitia
This book offers a series of compelling responses to the Jasmin Vardimon Company's production of Justitia, a multilayered, multimedia dance theatre piece. Through an innovative, visually annotated text, which includes the original script by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the book attempts to record the expe...
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Research-based theatre
Research-based Theatre aims to construct a theoretical analysis of the field and offer critical reflections on how the methodology can now be applied. The book shares twelve examples of contemporary research-based theatre scripts and commentaries, selected to represent different approaches that c...
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Theatre for children in hospital
Recent decades have seen a new appreciation develop for applied theatre and the role of arts-based activities in health care. This book looks specifically at the place of theatre for children who are hospitalized, showing how powerfully it can enhance their social and mental well-being. Child-led...
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Theatrical reality
Theatrical Reality examines how the liminal spaces of performance foster specific ways of conceptualising time, place and reality. Campbell Edinborough draws on sociological theory, cognitive psychology and embodiment studies to analyse our understanding of theatrical reality and the relationship...
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The hour of all things and other plays
This book presents four plays by Caridad Svich that explore the rough waters of citizenship under the pressure of globalization and the threads of human connection across multiple geographic landscapes. Featuring essays by practitioners such as Zac Kline, this book refuses to pretend that the com...
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Queer cinema in europe
This landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate. Through case studies of key films and filmmakers, the contributors to this volume resituate discussions of queer representat...
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Queer cinema in europe
Queer cinema has gained scholarly attention in recent years as a manifestation of the conflicts, anxieties, and liberation of European sexuality. Robin Griffiths’ Queer Cinema in Europe, the first anthology of its kind, probes the questions and implications of sex, gender, and identity in contemp...
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Insights in applied theatre
This collection brings together the most significant, influential and still current articles from Applied Theatre Researcher 2000–11, predecessor of Intellect’s Applied Theatre Research journal, with significant and substantial new material. First and foremost a critical reader for today’s applie...
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Playwriting in schools
John Newman invites teachers to take their students on a playwriting voyage in Playwriting in Schools. The book examines how students who learn to write plays and work with a professional playwright in residence empower themselves and gives instructors tools for teaching the process of playwritin...
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House of cards
Exploration of the idea that House of Cards sets an alternate political world, where the leader is a ferocious animal, a political field overtaken by monsters who remain true to their fundamental nature or try to master their bloodthirsty instincts. But can we really think that the elected men an...
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Orphan black
This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of the hit television series Orphan Black and the questions it raises for performance and technology, gender and reproduction and biopolitics and community. Contributors come from a range of backgrounds and explore the digital innovations and techni...
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Acting and its refusal in theatre and film
Acting has traditionally been considered a form of pretending or falsehood, compared with the so-called reality or truth of everyday life. Yet in the postmodern era, a reversal has occurred – real life is revealed as something acted and acting is where people have begun to search for truth. In Ac...
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Modern european tragedy
The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the time of the ancient Greeks. However, it was in the Europe of the twentieth century – one of the most violent periods of human history – that the tragic form significantly developed. ‘...
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The story of lemnos
In The Story of Lemnos Dimitris Plantzos has written the long history of the relatively unknown and, until recently, somewhat ignored Aegean island of Lemnos. The story is a fascinating narrative, a true chronicle of the place and its people. The book is illustrated throughout in colour.
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Menander 'misoumenos' or 'the hated man'
Judging from the numerous recovered papyrus fragments, Menander’s Misoumenos, or ‘The Hated Man’ was one of his most popular plays. This edition is the fullest to date of any English language edition of the play and aims to restore as much of the original action as possible through painstaking re...
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The sumerian poem enmerkar and en-suhkes-ana
This thorough edition of a Sumerian poem featuring the hero Enmerkar makes use of many newly identified exemplars of the composition. In addition, in his commentary the author makes a good case that story and script were created for performance.
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Profession and performance: aspects of oratory in the greco-roman world
This volume brings together six papers relating to oratory and orators in public fora of Classical Greece and Rome which explore the performative aspects of rhetoric. The final paper, by Lord Justice Laws, reflects on the continuing relevance of rhetoric in the modern, highly professionalised pra...
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