Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This transdisciplinary study expands on theories of theatricality beyond performance studies and into poetry, media...  Read More >>

Following the critically acclaimed Beginning and Middle, End is the final play in David Eldridge’s trilogy exploring...  Read More >>

Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Signals of Being: A Play in Three Acts stages a captivating dramatic interpretation of a country...  Read More >>

A history of Shakespeare's play in performance, from John Dryden's Restoration adaptation to the rediscovery of...  Read More >>

Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Signals of Being: A Play in Three Acts stages a captivating dramatic interpretation of a country...  Read More >>

Being a kid is full of things that don’t make sense, Elise. We’re born into something that started ages ago and...  Read More >>

Gold in the Water is a fabulous, funny, and heartfelt new Irish musical from Shane O'Reilly with Paul Curley.  Read More >>

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This beautiful book celebrates the Japanese kabuki tradition-presenting fifteen classic tales of tragic love and...  Read More >>

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Contemporary plays by a dynamic Peruvian collective showcase the nation’s vibrant cultural and linguistic mosaic...  Read More >>

A vibrant anthology of contemporary Peruvian drama spotlights...  Read More >>

The first practical guide to exploring Shakespeare and Brecht together with a view to expanding staging and performing...  Read More >>

This book explores Middle-Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy in Europe and the Middle East from the turn of the...  Read More >>

Introducing the ""tragic imagination"" as a creative faculty with contemporary relevance, Andy Amato explores its...  Read More >>

Through up-to-date essays by historians, biographers, and Shakespeare critics, this Companion offers, first, a systematic...  Read More >>

The first practical guide to exploring Shakespeare and Brecht together with a view to expanding staging and performing...  Read More >>

The Problem with the Seventh Year is a bloody, unflinching drama about the fine line between being clever and being...  Read More >>

Black Sheep is a razor-sharp psalm about the county of Norfolk, tracing the dilemmas facing farming succession....  Read More >>

In Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, 16 years pass between the end of Act III and the beginning of Act IV. Madonna...  Read More >>

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This volume explores the disruptive effects of war and social unrest in early modern drama, offering new examinations...  Read More >>

Jack Holden's striking hot new adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel about desire and the...  Read More >>

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An updated stand-alone edition of Sophocles's Oedipus the King taken from Chicago's renowned translations of the...  Read More >>