English drama at the beginning of the sixteenth century was allegorical, didactic and moralistic; but by the end of the century theatre was censured as emotiona

This book examines the appropriation of theatre and theatrical performance by ideologies of humanism, in terms that continue to echo across the related discipli

This book explores sixteenth-century humanism as an origin for the idea of literature as good, even great, books. It argues that humanists located the value of

This title was first published in 1988: In this book the author has translated five postwar experimental Japanese plays and recreated the artistic, social and s