Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Textile Shakespeare explores the centrality of textiles to life in early modern England. Cloth and fabric displayed...  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 >>

Translational Engagements with Asian Languages in Premodern Japan explores a range of Japanese practices used to...  Read More >>

In The Glass Door, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been adapted to make it easier for modern theaters to produce and for...  Read More >>

Returned To A Time Of Loneliness by Manal Khalil .. A literary collection of several literary thoughts that express...  Read More >>

Big Ange, the local dinner lady, becomes a football manager to try and save a young boy from being radicalised....  Read More >>

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

William Shakespeare's As You Like It offers what may be his funniest, most complex, and most sophisticated presentation...  Read More >>

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Every day at 7pm, Greg Hurst has a little treat. When the pandemic begins, treats ramp up. Gay, single, aimless,...  Read More >>

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The book explores how dramatic visions of antislavery provided a site for (re)mediating a white metropolitan—and...  Read More >>

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First published in 1980, each of the three playwrights discussed in this book was a radical in his own way, concerned...  Read More >>

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

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

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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 >>

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

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