Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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

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

This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. The author focusses...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

A new edition of John Millington Synge’s riveting story of youth and self-discovery, published to coincide with...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

Last Thoughts on Euripides is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text edition...  Read More >>

Part True Crime, part Western, KENREX is a gritty, gripping thrill ride through the American Midwest written by...  Read More >>

David Eldridge's critically acclaimed trilogy exploring love and relationships from beginning, middle, to end.  Read More >>

""The Druriad"" is a biting 18th-century English verse satire, penned anonymously, that offers a vivid and critical...  Read More >>

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Entertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Pakistan provides an extensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan,...  Read More >>

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare  Read More >>

Moves away from offering a single methodology or approach to social justice teaching, providing practical models...  Read More >>

The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies.  Read More >>

No description has been provided, leaving the intricate details, rich characters, and evocative settings entirely...  Read More >>

In August 1886, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) received a letter asking permission to dramatize Alice's...  Read More >>

The first ever stage adaptation of Le Carre's breakthrough novel about Cold War spies, re-imagined by award-winning...  Read More >>

Private View delves into intimacy, power, and identity to capture the beauty, intensity, and messiness of queer...  Read More >>

How Shakespeare meticulously crafted every part of Twelfth Night and Macbeth to convey a sage message for humanity...  Read More >>

Award-winning British playwright, composer and screenwriter Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage...  Read More >>

A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays between 1560-1670 that were performed in private...  Read More >>

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a...  Read More >>

Award-winning British playwright, composer and screenwriter Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage...  Read More >>