Edited by J. R. Green (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) and Eric Handley Greek theatre was one of the glories of the ancient world. It survives not only in cultural traditions, but in plays which can still be read and seen and in artistic images. This book examines the history of Greek theatre as seen through representations … Continued
By M. C. Bradbrook (NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1980–81)
By M. C. Bradbrook (NHC Fellow, 1978–79; 1980–81) Little has been known about Webster until quite recently when his family origins were traced in the London parish of St Sepulchrewithout-Newgate. Now we know that his father was a coachmaker and that he lived with his family in Nag's Head Alley. In this, the first full … Continued
By Mary Hunter (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Mozart’s comic operas are among the masterworks of Western civilization, and yet the musical environment in which Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte wrote these now-popular operas has received little critical attention. In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in … Continued
By John J. Allen (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) and José M. Ruano de la Haza Studies on the original staging of the Golden Age theater are relatively recent. Perhaps for this reason no monograph on the staging of comedy in commercial theaters existed until today in our language despite the great wealth of data that we have … Continued
By Derek Attridge (NHC Fellow 2014–15; 2016–17) Was the experience of poetry–or a cultural practice we now call poetry–continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting of language into memorable … Continued
By Helen Solterer (NHC Fellow, 2002–03) Ranging from France to Russia to America in the throes of world war and revolution, Medieval Roles for Modern Times investigates how critics and creators made medieval culture a part of their modern world through theatrical role-playing. On both the Left and the Right across Europe, partisans used drama to express … Continued
By Stephen Spector (NHC Fellow, 1985–86)
Edited by Ruth Morse (NHC Fellow, 2012–13), Helen Cooper, and Peter Holland For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together … Continued
Edited by Stephen Spector (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) The N-Town Cycle is one of the four extant Middle English cycles of mystery plays. A collection of unknown origin, N-Town is composite and in many ways unique. Its forty-one plays, dramatizing divine history from Creation to Doomsday, illustrate ways of reading, supplementing, and altering biblical accounts. The … Continued