Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies presents Lawrence Echard's early modern introductions to the...  Read More >>

A high camp cocktail of comedy and cabaret, written & performed by Temi Wilkey, that's a perfect send up of the...  Read More >>

50 Kapitel: Die Komödie der Irrungen: Shakespeares Sitcom avant la lettre Verlorene Liebesmüh: Shakespeares Dissertation...  Read More >>

An accessible introduction to Plautus' Cistellaria, highlighting the performative, literary and socio-cultural aspects...  Read More >>

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As per William Shakespeare, 'all the world's a stage'. But what if the human soul was a stage too? What if the stage...  Read More >>

""How Shakespeare became Shakespeare: a riveting tale of London's first playhouse and the people--actors, writers,...  Read More >>

In der Reihe erscheinen Begleitbände zum Werk des Schriftstellers Günter Grass. Sie enthalten neben einleitenden...  Read More >>

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This book is a collection of essays by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves...  Read More >>

This book explores the development of Sinhala stylistic drama from its earliest manifestations to the post-independence...  Read More >>

When pregnant Bec enters early labour, she finds herself leaning on ex-boyfriend and father of her baby Alex literally...  Read More >>

A billion years in the future, humanity is extinct. But Shakespeare remains. A machine civilization, so far advanced...  Read More >>

First published in 1952, The Universities and the Theatre contains the papers read at the Symposium on the Responsibility...  Read More >>

The is the first book on neighbourly relationships in early modern English drama. Situating four unique, generically...  Read More >>

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1969, Shaw – “The Chucker Out” quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaw’s own essay The Quintessence...  Read More >>

First published in 1971, this first full-length treatment of Shaw as director is important for several reasons:...  Read More >>

It was Shaw’s general contention that all great art was didactic; it was his specific contention that he wrote plays...  Read More >>

First published in 1972, Shaw’s plays are examined as self-contained imaginative structures intended for theatrical...  Read More >>

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This book is the accumulation of the many Clues from the First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays (as opposed to any edited...  Read More >>