Drama Genres Books

New and Published Books

1. Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama

   Economies of Vengeance

   By Chris McMahon

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   In this book, McMahon considers Early Modern revenge plays from a political science perspective, paying particular attention to the construction of family and state institutions. Plays set for close study are The Spanish Tragedy, Hamlet, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Malcontent and The Duchess of...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
2. The Harvest of Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)

   By Thomas Rice Henn

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Upon initial publication in 1956, this book was an attempt to re-state certain problems concerning the aesthetics and ethics of the tragic form; to examine these in relation to contemporary work in psychology and anthropology; to enquire into the significance of ‘the fact or experience called...

   Published October 30th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama

   W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge

   By George Cusack

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. By contextualizing each author’s work within the artistic and political discourses of their time, Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of...

   Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
4. Shakespearian Tempst

   By G Wilson Knight

   Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge
5. Shakespearian Production

   By G Wilson Knight

   Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge
6. Shakespeares Dramatic Chall V

   By Wilson Knight

   Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge
7. Shakespeare & Religion V 7

   By Wilson Knight

   Published August 29th 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 Elizabethan Dumb Show (Routledge Revivals)

   The History of a Dramatic Convention

   By Dieter Mehl

   First published in English in 1965, this book discusses the roots and development of the dumb show as a device in Elizabethan drama. The work provides not only a useful manual for those who wish to check the ocurrence of dumb shows and the uses to which they are put; it also makes a real...

   Published July 13th 2011 by Routledge
10. English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals)

    The Development of Dramatic Speech

    By Wolfgang Clemen

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First 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...

    Published February 28th 2011 by Routledge