Andrew Gurr: 4 books

In 1994, Andrew Gurr was perusing the employment pages of the Sunday Times when an advertisement caught his eye: "Wanted: Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands Government." Intrigued, he decided to follow it up. Nobody was more surprised than Andrew when, a few months later, he was offered...

The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the history of English Renaissance drama. Hieronimo, Knight-Marshal of Spain during its war with Portugal,...

Shakespeare was easily the most inventive writer using the English language. His plays give us intricacies of vocabulary and usage that have enriched us immeasurably. This book provides a series of analytical essays on the marginalia relating to the plays. Each of them is a searching and authoritative...

For almost forty years The Shakespearean Stage has been considered the liveliest, most reliable and most entertaining overview of Shakespearean theatre in its own time. It is the only authoritative book that describes all the main features of the original staging of Shakespearean drama in one volume:...