Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Returned To A Time Of Loneliness by Manal Khalil .. A literary collection of several literary thoughts that express...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Volume 78 is 'Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

A go-to guide to help undergraduates navigate their way through university Shakespeare, examining 16 key plays....  Read More >>

This book examines dramatic dialogue in English-language theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries...  Read More >>

The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy is the first book to approach the corporeality of Greek drama in terms...  Read More >>

In The Glass Door, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been adapted to make it easier for modern theaters to produce and for...  Read More >>

Simon Evans and Debris Stevenson bring new life to Edmond Rostand's...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare's As You Like It offers what may be his funniest, most complex, and most sophisticated presentation...  Read More >>

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A high camp cocktail of comedy and cabaret, written & performed by Temi Wilkey, that's a perfect send up of the...  Read More >>

A new play from Fishamble's Gavin Kostick about a father and a daughter and the challenges of coming of age  Read More >>

An accessible introduction to Plautus' Cistellaria, highlighting the performative, literary and socio-cultural aspects...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare and Queer Studies offers an accessible, comprehensive, and non-polemical account of queer approaches...  Read More >>

When pregnant Bec enters early labour, she finds herself leaning on ex-boyfriend and father of her baby Alex literally...  Read More >>

The is the first book on neighbourly relationships in early modern English drama. Situating four unique, generically...  Read More >>

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett...  Read More >>

This book examines Persian characters in English drama (1561-1696) to animate a new narrative of transnational relationships...  Read More >>

In his new book, Gyles Brandreth both explores - and explains - the phenomenon of Winnie-the-Pooh and tells the...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1969, Shaw – “The Chucker Out” quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaw’s own essay The Quintessence...  Read More >>

First published in 1971, this first full-length treatment of Shaw as director is important for several reasons:...  Read More >>

It was Shaw’s general contention that all great art was didactic; it was his specific contention that he wrote plays...  Read More >>