A major collection of important essays by many of the leading scholars in the field of Buddhism, including Phyllis Granoff from Yale University, T. H. Barrett from the University of London, Raoul Birnbaum from University of California, Toru Funayama from Kyoto University, Eugene Wang from Harvard Un[...]

This accessible introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest comic writers tackles key questions posed by Aristophanes' plays, such as staging, humour, songs, obscene language, politics and the modern translation and performance of Aristophanic comedy. The book opens up exciting and conte[...]

This book will constitute an original intervention into longstanding but insistently relevant debates around the significance of notions of a ~performativitya (TM) to the critical analysis of early modern drama. In particular, the book aims to: show how the investigation of performativity can ena[...]