Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Motherhood. No one can prepare you for it. No matter how much you tell yourself you can do it – can you? Where’s...  Read More >>

A new edition of the comprehensive guide to Shakespeare, exploring his life and works, and his enduring legacy,...  Read More >>

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of ‘unspeakable’...  Read More >>

By examining how female characters speak and act during coming of age, engagement, marriage this book will enhance...  Read More >>

This book investigates the backdrop of modern ideas about history, delving into a variety of aesthetic-historical...  Read More >>

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This book is a case study into the affective history of Holocaust drama offering a new perspective on the impact...  Read More >>

The revealing and candid memoir of Australia's legendary playwright and screenwriter The definitive memoir of...  Read More >>

Placing ‘literature’ at the centre of Renaissance economic knowledge, this book offers a distinct intervention in...  Read More >>

A Student Edition of this 2021 play, exploring its themes of sexuality, emigration and time, as well as its use...  Read More >>

A new punk musical play set in a mental health unit inside a prison, about a group of women who form a punk rock...  Read More >>

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""Smart and scintillating. Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don't: The exhilaration of the act.""...  Read More >>

"The 1996 Tony Award winner for Best Play ""unforgettable, worth swimming to New York to catch"" (Benedict Nightingale)"...  Read More >>

""Some playwrights have a gift to amuse; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has a darker gift. Anyone with romantic notions of...  Read More >>

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Yukio Ninagawa (1935–2016) was Japan's foremost director of Shakespeare whose productions were acclaimed around...  Read More >>

""First published in Great Britain by Oberon Books 2013.""  Read More >>

Three generations of women. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful legacy. ""I have...  Read More >>

This gave my essays a kind of urgency, the warmth of appeal of the advocate, which my later, more detached and I...  Read More >>

"The censored satirical or ""bad"" version of the ""Shakespeare"" classic that features a homosexual affair between...  Read More >>

"A country comedy about the absurdly corrupt purchases of military titles. Captain Underwit has succeeded in becoming...  Read More >>

Drucklegung erfolgte mit Unterstützung des Instituts für Literatur, Kulturkunde und europäische Sprachen (ILOS)...  Read More >>