Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to...  Read More >>

First published in 1964, Greek Tragedy and the Modern World begins with the question what is Tragedy? By examining...  Read More >>

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

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Welcome to Jaja’s! Written by award-winning playwright Jocelyn Bioh, this new comedy takes us into a bustling Harlem...  Read More >>

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation...  Read More >>

An introduction to Terence’s Eunuchus, a dramaturgically complex play addressing questions of behaviour still relevant...  Read More >>

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What Love's Labor's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and change Shakespeare...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

A new play from playwright Sarah Power (Grud) about what we owe each other when the past demands a reckoning.  Read More >>

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

A clear, accessible guide for Years 9-10, simplifying key quotes, themes, context and tragic form. Features an Act-by-Act...  Read More >>

How Shakespeare's exploration of central human questions about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong...  Read More >>

A darkly comic and celebrated new play that offers a fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, cults... and...  Read More >>

First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected...  Read More >>

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A fresh and thrilling take on a modern love story from Olivier nominee Maimuna Memon (Standing at the Sky’s Edge),...  Read More >>

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First published in 1961, Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama explores John M. Synge’s works, linking them to Irish life,...  Read More >>

Explores how Shakespeare uses global wisdom literatures to encourage spiritual and moral growth and the arts of...  Read More >>