Drama Books

New and Published Books

1. Shakespeare: The Basics

   3rd Edition

   By Sean McEvoy

   Series: The Basics

   Now in its third edition Shakespeare: The Basics is an insightful and informative introduction to the work of William Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare’s plays including the language, cultural contexts, and modern interpretations, this text looks at how a range of plays from across...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Richard II

   New Critical Essays

   Edited by Jeremy Lopez

   Series: Shakespeare Criticism

   Arguably the first play in a Shakespearean tetralogy, Richard II is a unique and compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. It is one of the few Shakespeare plays written entirely in verse and its format presents unique theatrical challenges. Politically engaged and controversial...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. New Playwriting Strategies

   Language and Media in the 21st Century, 2nd Edition

   By Paul Castagno

   New Playwriting Strategies has become a canonical text in the study and teaching of playwriting, offering a fresh and dynamic insight into the subject. This thoroughly revised and expanded second edition explores and highlights the wide spread of new techniques that form contemporary theatre...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
4. Jean Genet

   By David Bradby, Clare Finburgh

   Series: Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists

   Jean Genet’s significance within twentieth-century theatre has long been understated. This timely book, the only introductory text in English to Genet’s plays in production, presents an overview of an influential and controversial writer whose work prefigured many recent postmodern and...

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge
5. Playwriting across the Curriculum

   By Caroline Jester, Claire Stoneman

   This book is a guide to introducing the craft of playwriting into the secondary English curriculum at key stage 3, using the TEEP (Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme) framework. The authors also provide a particular focus on applying this versatile scheme of work to other areas of the...

   Published October 23rd 2011 by Routledge
6. Eighteenth-Century Authorship and the Play of Fiction

   Novels and the Theater, Haywood to Austen

   By Emily Hodgson Anderson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   This study looks at developments in eighteenth-century drama that influenced the rise of the novel; it begins by asking why women writers of this period experimented so frequently with both novels and plays. Here, Eliza Haywood, Frances Burney, Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen...

   Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
7. Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time

   By Matthew Wagner

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love's Labour's Lost), one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night), or, perhaps most famously, simply ‘out of joint’ (Hamlet). Yet most critical commentary on...

   Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
8. Ecology and Environment in European Drama

   By Downing Cless

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times. Cless focuses on the few, yet well-known plays in which nature is at stake in the action or the environment is a dramatic force....

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

   Edited by John Russell Brown

   The Routledge Companion to Actors’ Shakespeare is a window onto how today’s actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare’s plays. The process of acting is notoriously hard to document, but this volume reaches behind famous performances to examine the actors’ craft, their...

   Published June 29th 2011 by Routledge
10. Requiem and an Epilogue

    Edited by Glynne Wickham

    This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660....

    Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge