Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A wildly imaginative new play by Noah Diaz that traces the hilarious and deeply moving saga of one man's illness...  Read More >>

A tender, funny, probing new play by renowned American playwright Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play)...  Read More >>

Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the...  Read More >>

An accessible introduction to the Roman tragedy Hercules on Oeta with chapters on its contexts, key themes and reception....  Read More >>

This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis, the first adaptor of Hamlet...  Read More >>

The first great 'resistance' drama - and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.  Read More >>

Five Sundays. Five strangers. One mystery drug. What could go wrong?  Read More >>

A major new interpretation of translations of the classics in Tudor England, showing how they applied ancient Greek...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

How can anyone doubt that the world's greatest playwright wrote the plays attributed to him? William Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

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Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare’s theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural...  Read More >>

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It's 2023 and Oberon's a sore loser... Take Midsummer Night's Dream, put it in a contemporary Percy Jackson-type...  Read More >>

This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by...  Read More >>

This edition is the first that treats Hamlet as the work of a philosophical poet concerned with knowing the nature...  Read More >>

If ever a play had something to say about the art of statesmanship, that play is Sir Thomas More. Its origins and...  Read More >>

With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts,...  Read More >>

The Last Picture is a thought-provoking exploration of empathy, imagination, and collective memory – a play about...  Read More >>

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who...  Read More >>

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