Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Deliberating the Heroine in Early Modern French Women’s Theater argues that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes...  Read More >>

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This book studies how the tirades and unrestrained villainy of Shakespeare’s art explode the decorum and safety...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Adaptation offers a broad range of scholarship from this growing, interdisciplinary field....  Read More >>

This book presents comparative and interdisciplinary essays that demonstrate the value of thinking with Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Each chapter of this book offers a detailed account of the ways in which different cultures – the ancient Greek...  Read More >>

Tragedy is a genre for exploring loss and suffering, and this book traces the vital areas where tragedy has shaped...  Read More >>

What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace, Emilie Pine...  Read More >>

Imaginary Plots and Political Realities in the Plays of William Congreve is a study of the political and social...  Read More >>

The first purpose of this book is to provide new readings of many of Shakespeare's major plays, unhampered by bardolatry...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1987, An Old-Spelling Critical Edition of James Shirley's The Example, offers a critical...  Read More >>

This is a witty tale that plays with traditional gender roles whilst dealing with the politics of brotherhood. Feuding...  Read More >>

In the CliffsComplete guides, the play's complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered...  Read More >>

What happens when cultural memory becomes a commodity? Who owns the memory? In The Memory Marketplace, Emilie Pine...  Read More >>

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"Antony and Cleopatra (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare....  Read More >>

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This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female...  Read More >>

Since 1995 The 24 Hour Plays have been responding to theatre in the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought...  Read More >>

National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth...  Read More >>

Age range 14+ Shakespeare everyone can understand - now in this new EXPANDED edition of MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM!...  Read More >>

Age range 14+ Shakespeare everyone can understand - now in this new EXPANDED edition of JULIUS CAESAR! Why fear...  Read More >>