Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

Examines the reasons why the Folio came into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and how the now...  Read More >>

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

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This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

A new play from playwright Sarah Power (Grud) about what we owe each other when the past demands a reckoning.  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

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How Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions-about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong-explains...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeare’s time would have understood the sensual world...  Read More >>

Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

A fresh and thrilling take on a modern love story from Olivier nominee Maimuna Memon (Standing at the Sky’s Edge),...  Read More >>

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A tender and darkly comic play about family, illness, and cowboys — and how to remain standing when everything you...  Read More >>

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by...  Read More >>

Shows how Shakespeare reveals the world we inhabit neither as objectively nor subjectively given but as always bringing...  Read More >>

Shows how Shakespeare reveals the world we inhabit neither as objectively nor subjectively given but as always bringing...  Read More >>

A ground-breaking theatrical event of two high-energy gig-theatre performances that revisit the stories of four...  Read More >>

Top Gs Like Me dives headfirst into the influence of online culture, the pull of toxic masculinity, and the search...  Read More >>

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