Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its...  Read More >>

This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular...  Read More >>

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Anna Ziegler's remarkable new play: an introduction to another world where ghosts and dreams are as real as anything...  Read More >>

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This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

Two South Asian elders meet each other in a Type 2 diabetes workshop but find themselves navigating the sparks of...  Read More >>

Life Before You, a fierce and unflinching new play by Eva Hudson, lays bare the fault lines between mothers and...  Read More >>

The Human Voice by Darren Murphy is a radical reimagining of Jean Cocteau’s classic play La Voix Humaine.  Read More >>

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This is the first book to offer a pan-European analysis of Macbeth adaptations across a range of media in the long...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities.  Read More >>

A thought-provoking new assessment of this important Greek dramatic text by a major scholar.  Read More >>

Five Sundays. Five strangers. One mystery drug. What could go wrong?  Read More >>

Set during the civil wars of 19th-century Yorubaland, Crown of Blood is a powerful retelling of the classic Macbeth....  Read More >>

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

Demonstrates how the career of Britain's first major Black actor, Ira Aldridge, transformed a range of dramatic...  Read More >>

Poetry, grime and dance unite in Debris Stevenson’s explosive new play about learning to fall, fail and find our...  Read More >>

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of...  Read More >>

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres...  Read More >>

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>