Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Despite the legacy of his eponymous award, Alfred Fagon's stage works have often been forgotten due to them not...  Read More >>

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'Playwright David Ireland challenges people to draw lines between what they find funny and what they find outrageous'...  Read More >>

Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by...  Read More >>

The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout...  Read More >>

Includes the critical essay ""Conditional Texts, Conditional Lives: Mona Mansour's The Vagrant Trilogy"" by Dr....  Read More >>

Through an examination of a range of performance works ranging from Jean Cocteau’s ballet The Eiffel Tower Wedding...  Read More >>

Staging Britain's Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain's pre-Roman history. The mythic...  Read More >>

A bold play collection representing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) experiences, from...  Read More >>

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful...  Read More >>

Includes the critical essay ""Conditional Texts, Conditional Lives: Mona Mansour's The Vagrant Trilogy"" by Dr....  Read More >>

Winner of Best New Play at the 2023 UK Theatre Awards Winner of Best New Play at the 2023 Critics’ Awards for Theatre...  Read More >>

Despite the legacy of his eponymous award, Alfred Fagon's stage works have often been forgotten due to them not...  Read More >>

The book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides’ Andromache. Its...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Digital Performance in Practice explores the impact of digital technologies on the theatrical performance...  Read More >>

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An epic journey of endurance and hope, based on the best-selling Man Booker Prize-winning novel of the same name...  Read More >>

This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers...  Read More >>

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This book, first published in 1972, discusses Chekhov’s last four plays. David Magarshack, the leading translator...  Read More >>

The incredible but entirely plausible story behind the sonnets that William Shakespeare addressed to a beautiful...  Read More >>

Shakespeare died 405 years ago and this book intent to be a commemoration and celebration of his life and work....  Read More >>

I don't think I'll ever meet someone who loves me as much as Ryan loves me and hates me as much as Ryan hates me...  Read More >>

""This translation renews the language of one of Shakespeare's most frequently staged tragedies for a modern audience""--...  Read More >>

Professor John Halder is a 'good' man. But 'good' men must adapt to survive. As the world faces its Second World...  Read More >>