Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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 >>

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

Ibsen Apocalypse historicizes the twenty-first century's most audacious theater work to trace the legacies of modernism's...  Read More >>

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

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 >>

The must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays. Along with tips on approaching and working on the play and...  Read More >>

The must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays. Along with tips on approaching and working on the play and...  Read More >>

The must-have workbook series for Shakespeare plays. Along with tips on approaching and working on the play and...  Read More >>

From their inception, ‘low culture’ comics have intersected with the ‘high culture’ of Shakespeare. This is the...  Read More >>

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

Adapting The Tempest: Explorations in Ecophenomenology examines five female-authored novelizations of The Tempest,...  Read More >>

Fifty years after its original publication in 1976, this excellent analysis of the psycho-social dimensions of Shakespearean...  Read More >>