Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Often the best drama is waiting in the wings.  Read More >>

Discusses the way that the figure of the rogue persistently conflates sexual and social deviance, and argues that...  Read More >>

aper Crusade is a bold reinvention of Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest. Michelle Penn’s vivid imagery and startling,...  Read More >>

""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Where’s the glory Mum? Where’s that perfect world for us, your kids? Children of the Windrush generation, sisters...  Read More >>

A history of acting Shakespeare that explores the ways in which the lives and careers of actors have been shaped...  Read More >>

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The first anthology of youth plays from Gaza and the wider Palestinian region, this timely collection ties together...  Read More >>

This is David Hare's version of Brecht's classic play which was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November...  Read More >>

‘I got my first pair of glasses when I was seven. A nurse came to the school and tested everyone’s eyes. And so...  Read More >>

The amazing adventures of a woman with a fist in her head. Clara Darcy is fit! She’s also (almost) care-free, (kind...  Read More >>

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This book offers the most rigorous attempt yet undertaken to determine the scope of Robert Greene's canon through...  Read More >>

The meanings originally communicated by Elizabethan and Jacobean dress have long been confined to history. Why,...  Read More >>

Staunchly homosocial, vaguely or overtly misogynistic, anxiously homophobic—this study follows the male breadwinner...  Read More >>

The first anthology of youth plays from Gaza and the wider Palestinian region, this timely collection ties together...  Read More >>

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World explores Shakespeare’s complex art of insults and shows how the playwright...  Read More >>

"""Accomplished translator Ranjit Bolt takes on Shakespeare's well-loved comedy to update much of the obscure language...  Read More >>

""This new version of Romeo and Juliet, written in accessible modern English, breathes new life into Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

How to Do Things with Dead People studies human contrivances for representing and relating to the dead. Alice Dailey...  Read More >>

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This study explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World...  Read More >>

An intimate play with music about family, love, loss and legacy.  Read More >>