Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Shakespeare's time and ours each engage intensely with Troy. What both periods share is a view that the matter of...  Read More >>

Der Krieg eines afrikanischen Prinzen gegen Rom.  Read More >>

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Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation...  Read More >>

Bertolt Brecht in Context examines Brecht's significance and contributions as a writer and the most influential...  Read More >>

Ibsen in Context identifies thirty different contexts for understanding Ibsen's life and career at home, and considers...  Read More >>

Introducing readers to the broad socio-cultural contexts that shaped Chekhov's works and legacy, this insightful...  Read More >>

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The first study of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) during a five-year period of rising nationalism,...  Read More >>

The first full-length exploration of the work of Laura Wade, providing critical and performance perspectives on...  Read More >>

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

Introduces mirrors as material and metaphorical agents of early modern theatricality whose presence in the playhouse...  Read More >>

The first dedicated historical study of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, this book explores the troupe’s four major...  Read More >>

In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads...  Read More >>

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

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

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 >>