Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

""The Tragedy of Macbeth,"" presented here according to the First Folio with modernized spelling, remains one of...  Read More >>

""Macbeth, a Tragedy"" is one of William Shakespeare's most powerful and enduring works. This edition is accurately...  Read More >>

""Waltheof: A Tragedy in Five Acts"" by Thomas James Serle is a compelling dramatic work first produced at the Royal...  Read More >>

""Tales From Shakspeare,"" by Charles and Mary Lamb, offers accessible prose retellings of William Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Some Textual Notes On a Midsommer Nights Dreame by Alfred Edward Thiselton offers a detailed examination of Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

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In doing so he breathes new life into the original poems and opens them up for a modern readership, demystifying...  Read More >>

Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. His work has been praised by figures from G. Bernard Shaw to...  Read More >>

Drawing on qualitative research exploring the techniques of playwriting instructors, this book outlines signature...  Read More >>

Inspired by true events in Black British history, LIBERATION is a powerful new play from Ntombizodwa Nyoni tracing...  Read More >>

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The book discusses the demarcation of secular and sacred territory in early modern English drama. It focuses primarily...  Read More >>

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First Published in 1963 A Guide to the Plays of Bernard Shaw is a descriptive and critical account of Bernard Shaw’s...  Read More >>

ନାଟ୍ୟକାର ପାଣିଗ୍ରାହୀଙ୍କର ନାଟ୍ୟରୀତିକୁ ସାମଗ୍ରିକ ଭାବରେ ଅନୁସରଣ କରି ତାଙ୍କ ନାଟ୍ୟ କଳାର ମହତ୍ତ୍ୱ ପ୍ରତିପାଦନ କରିବା ହେଉଛି ଗବେଷଣାର...  Read More >>

Closely examines the original stagings of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the point at which theatrical collaboration...  Read More >>

Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of “the language of Shakespeare” with English by examining...  Read More >>

The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first-century notion, but similar concerns...  Read More >>

This new examination of Shakespeare’s four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony...  Read More >>

This book examines the political alliances that are built across the diaspora in contemporary plays written by Black...  Read More >>

In the silence between our breaths Where words are not said Lies the echoes of the truth's unspoken words A whisper...  Read More >>

In the maze of emotions, I wander free Where whispers of affection feel like royalty Each verse is a mirror, revealing...  Read More >>

This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life as depicted on the modern stage and screen....  Read More >>