Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare's dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) important context:...  Read More >>

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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Contemporary Performance is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to...  Read More >>

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Textual Studies is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research...  Read More >>

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

A major biography of one of the most important figures in modern drama, evoked through a biographical reading of...  Read More >>

This 14-volume set contains titles originally published between 1926 and 1992. An eclectic mix, this collection...  Read More >>

Modern Gaelic drama has the power to break down barriers and to touch people across linguistic and cultural divides....  Read More >>

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Making a case for Hamlet as the world's most frequently filmed text, and using specially commissioned interviews...  Read More >>

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The voice traverses Beckett's work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate...  Read More >>

This engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century explores the playhouse as a source of emotion...  Read More >>

Uncovers new material concerning David Garrick's ownership and manipulation of the media that will interest readers...  Read More >>

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Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of a long-concealed secret. In the...  Read More >>

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""Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England....  Read More >>

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Sadie has a one-night stand with the new office temp, Joao, but it develops into something much more serious when...  Read More >>

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Die hier vorgelegten Dante-Studien sind hervorgegangen aus einer uber Jahrzehnte verfolgten Beschaftigung mit Dantes...  Read More >>

With efforts by feminist scholars and theatre artists to rediscover the work of forgotten women writers, Githa Sowerby...  Read More >>

Pericles - by William Shakespeare and others, the first quarto, 1609 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the...  Read More >>