Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Hedda Gabler navigates a loveless marriage and societal expectations, entangled in a web of past desires and future...  Read More >>

Mark Antony's love for Cleopatra sparks conflict and power struggles in ancient Rome, testing loyalty and leadership....  Read More >>

Queen Margaret wages war on the Yorkists after her son's disinheritance, leading to brutal battles and power struggles...  Read More >>

King Henry IV's crusade plans are derailed by border skirmishes and his son Hal's reckless behavior, as rebellion...  Read More >>

Richard III's ruthless pursuit of power leads to murder and betrayal as he eliminates anyone standing between him...  Read More >>

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

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Offering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare’s Twelfth...  Read More >>

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval...  Read More >>

A study of the fragments of Old Comedy, arguing that these fragments greatly enlarge our understanding of the history...  Read More >>

Volume 53 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature,...  Read More >>

This Element reconsiders the historical, theoretical, racial, disability, and editorial problem of genealogy by...  Read More >>

Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

If ever a play had something to say about the art of statesmanship, that play is Sir Thomas More. Its origins and...  Read More >>

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An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to...  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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The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

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Welcome to Jaja’s! Written by award-winning playwright Jocelyn Bioh, this new comedy takes us into a bustling Harlem...  Read More >>

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