First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of t......more

First performed the day after Marie-Antoinette’s beheading, Le Jugement dernier des rois stages the burlesque trial of t......more

The Glass Door is an adaptation of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. In this version (in three acts), the play has been shor......more

Arriving from his East Midlands beginnings into a London thick with the grime of industrialization, Joseph Merrick is an......more

Were it not for authoritarian state censorship, Cecilia Bartolomé’s name would figure alongside those of her contemporar......more

This book investigates the aesthetic and political dialectics of East Berlin to argue how its theatre and opera stages i......more

From one of Poland’s most acclaimed poets comes a new collection of poems and plays spanning almost five decades and tra......more

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Can feelings be wrong? Scientists agree that emotions contain both a cognitive and a physiological component. The cognit......more

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Bringing together in English translation eleven Francophone African plays dating from 1970 to 2021, this essential colle......more

Bringing together in English translation eleven Francophone African plays dating from 1970 to 2021, this essential colle......more

Racine the practising dramatist had been in some danger of being crowded out from the numerous books on his psychology a......more

In Bajazet and Mithridate Racine depicts the tragedies of characters who either wield tyrannic power or are subjected to......more

In these days when real-life horrors and recurring violence seem almost normal, THE TATTOOED MAN TELLS ALL is a tonic fo......more

Following Homi Bhabha’s prompt on reading nationalism as a set of discursive and performative practices, this Element fo......more

"A unique collection of five contemporary plays from the 21st century Hungary, translated into English for the first tim......more

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Two powerful plays about the shattering impact of war, and the astonishing resilience of those living through it, writte......more

An irrepressible fraudster known only as the Maniac is brought into Police Headquarters just as the officers are prepari......more

Who were the first celebrity couples? How was their success forged? Which forces influenced their self-fashioning and ma......more

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This book traces the evolution of an oral narrative tradition that inspired the Spanish epic poem Mocedades de Rodrigo....more

Ariosto in the Machine Age reimagines reception theory through the modern afterlife of a Renaissance literary icon....more

A meticulously researched book that collects twelve playscripts written by European Jews imprisoned in the Terezín ghett......more

Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolif......more

"Paco Bezerra has become one of the most lauded and essential voices in the Spanish theatrical scene. His works have rec......more

Written 1910 to 1913 (CW 14)"We see [in the mystery dramas] direct encounters of someone (Johannes) with their own doubl......more

The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin’s most sustained and original work. It begins with a general theore......more

True to Goldoni’s mixture of comic wit and farce, the plot is a breathtakingly fast succession of twists and turns which......more

A reissue of a comic and tragic play that asks just how much of our life we could--or would--change if we got another ch......more

Carefully perched somewhere between tragedy and grotesque, high-pitched and squeamish, Jelinek’s play, On the Royal Road......more

Dramatic sketches full of surprising, unpredictable twists and turns from a major twentieth-century German-language auth......more

Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy presents the first ever study of Lenora Bernardi’s life, alongside Eng......more

Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy presents the first ever study of Lenora Bernardi’s life, alongside Eng......more

Examines the discourses around the role of bloodlines and kinship in the social hierarchies of early modern Europe "Bloo......more

The two works in this volume are very different. Les Fourberies de Scapin can be described as a simple comedy. The nine ......more

This is the first English-language annotated edition of La reina di Scotia, one of the earliest dramatic works depicting......more

Kraus’s iconic WWI drama, a satirical indictment of the glory of war, now in English in its entirety for the first time ......more

Unlike the vast majority of The Golden Sayings editions, which are public domain reprints from more than a century ago, ......more

Hector Berlioz composed the music for Benvenuto Cellini, a semiseria drama in two acts with lyrics by Léon de Wailly and......more

The development of the printing press throughout the 18th century allowed for a wealth of knowledge, exploration, quickl......more

Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality puts gender at the centre of cinematic represe......more

An annual volume, this time with special attention to the relevance of Brecht’s work in today’s world of resurgent autho......more

A critical edition and the first English translation of the French play. April 1542 saw a massacre of epic proportions i......more

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"Abstract thoughts deaden artistic fantasy. Becoming more and more logical, one takes to writing commentaries on works o......more

"A bilingual edition of 31 dialogues by the famous sixteenth-century Italian actress and author Isabella Andreini, compo......more

The four volumes contain all 23 of Witkiewicz s plays in English translation, including The Madman and the Nun, The Craz......more

The four volumes contain all 23 of Witkiewicz s plays in English translation, including The Madman and the Nun, The Craz......more

The four volumes contain all 23 of Witkiewicz s plays in English translation, including The Madman and the Nun, The Craz......more

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Martin Crimp’s adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac premiered at the Playhouse Theatre, London, in November......more

This book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette. Few writers have ever experienced ......more

Did you hear the one about the Mother Superior who was so busy casting the first stone that she got caught in flagrante ......more

Franceska and the Venice Lagoon chronicles the journey of a young American girl as she accidentally stumbles upon illega......more

Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage explores how seventeenth-century French theater repr......more

Lesia Ukrainka was a Ukrainian poet, prose writer, and dramatist of universal importance. Her first collection of poetry......more

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Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1880-1951) was an extraordinary writer and political figure of the Ukrainian generation that was ......more

For the 400th anniversary of Moliere’s birth, Richard Wilbur’s unsurpassed translations of Molière’s plays--themselves t......more

For the 400th anniversary of Moliere’s birth, Richard Wilbur’s unsurpassed translations of Molière’s plays--themselves t......more

A play by the French maestro of Paris’ bloody "Grand Guignol" theater of the early Twentieth Century. Century, At the Te......more

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The first edition of the tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, London 1603. The present Edition of Hamlet is an accu......more

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"Fresh, new translations of Sophocles’s three Theban plays by acclaimed theater director Bryan Doerries, which emphasize......more

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