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Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy
Cambridge University Press 1980; US$ 46.00The first edition of this book formed the basis of the modern approach to Elizabethan poetic drama as a performing art, an approach pursued in subsequent volumes by Professor Bradbrook. Its influence has also extended to other fields; it has been studied by Grigori Kozintesev and Sergei Eisenstein for instance. Conventions of open stage, stylized plot... more...
Ben Jonson
Cambridge University Press 1984; US$ 66.00Anne Barton gives a reading of the plays that re-evaluates Ben Jonson as a dramatist. more...
The Limits of Illusion
Cambridge University Press 1984; US$ 32.00This is the first thorough study of Calderón in comparison with other important dramatists of the period. more...
Shakespeare's Clown
Cambridge University Press 1987; US$ 46.00Focusing on the clown Will Kemp, this book shows how Shakespeare and other dramatists wrote specific roles as vehicles for him. more...
Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 42.00This book is the first critical survey of modern Egyptian drama during the period of its maturity from the 1930s to the present day. more...
Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 42.00This study examines ways in which wonder has been used by classical and medieval playwrights, and by Shakespeare. more...
Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 46.00Interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in Shakespeare's era. more...
The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 32.00This book is the first comprehensive account of homoeroticism in Renaissance drama. more...
Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 95.00Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain examines ways in which British writers and readers used the idea of the Middle Ages to challenge contemporary political structures against the backdrop of the French Revolution. Through the consideration of canonical authors such as Blake, Scott, and Wordsworth and of lesser-studied works such as radical... more...
English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95First published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and, by tracing certain characteristics in Elizabethan tragedy which were to have a bearing on Shakespeare?s... more...









