Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Sheridan's classic comedy of manners, The Rivals, is given an uproarious Battle of Britain update by Richard Bean,...  Read More >>

The Critics Versus Shakespeare is a classic literary criticism volume by Francis A. Smith that deals with the works...  Read More >>

First performed on 6 March 2020 at the Everyman theatre, Liverpool  Read More >>

From spoken word to ballet, ancient Greek and Roman epics regularly provide both the subjects and the form for emergent...  Read More >>

The authors of this book ask how digital research tools are changing the ways in which practicing editors historicize...  Read More >>

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Yukio Ninagawa (1935–2016) was Japan's foremost director of Shakespeare whose productions were acclaimed around...  Read More >>

Published in brand-new English translations, these selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's leading dramatists,...  Read More >>

Plays Two is the second volume of brand-new English translations of selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's...  Read More >>

Plays One is the first volume of brand-new English translations of selected volumes of Hanoch Levin, one of Israel's...  Read More >>

A brave new piece by Racheal Ofori exploring cultural and generational shifts, religion and sexuality from the point...  Read More >>

Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,...  Read More >>

In Sex, Class and the Theatrical Archive: Erotic Economies, Alan Sikes explores the intersection of struggles over...  Read More >>

Tells the story of a young Latino named Alejandro, known as Abe, who seeks justice after being beaten by a Chicago...  Read More >>

Playwrights on Television features interviews with writers of award-winning stage plays and celebrated television...  Read More >>

Ariosto, Shakespeare And Corneille: Translated By Douglas Ainslie This book is a result of an effort made by us...  Read More >>

King Lear has set his daughters a test to prove how much they love him. Goneril and Regan flatter the old king,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's cinema of love addresses the question, how much has Shakespeare influenced modern film genres? Convincing...  Read More >>

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Arthur Miller for the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Views of His Writings and Ideas brings together both established...  Read More >>

We are happy to announce this classic book. Many of the books in our collection have not been published for decades...  Read More >>

In the mid-eighteenth century, the Ottawa chief Pontiac led an intertribal confederacy that resisted British power...  Read More >>

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