Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The comedies of the Athenian dramatist Menander (c. 342-291 BC) were the ultimate source of a Western tradition...  Read More >>

This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the...  Read More >>

This volume introduces ‘civic Shakespeare’ as a category entailing the relation between the individual and the community...  Read More >>

Visiting scenes of greeting, feeding, entertaining, and sheltering, this volume focuses on hospitality in Shakespeare’s...  Read More >>

The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically...  Read More >>

In this interdisciplinary book, scholars from English literature, Italian studies, performance history, and comparative...  Read More >>

This book gives Asia’s Shakespeares the critical, theoretical, and political space they demand, offering rich, alternative...  Read More >>

Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus revivifies the complex question of fate and freedom in the tragedies of...  Read More >>

Visiting memory and erotics in the early modern period, this volume...  Read More >>

The comedies of Quinault, written between 1653 and 1665, reveal a skillful playwright and a virtuoso writer. They...  Read More >>

This third edition of The Taming of the Shrew, one of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays, includes...  Read More >>

At head of title: Folger Shakespeare Library.  Read More >>

At head of title: Folger Shakespeare Library.  Read More >>

This new edition of Shakespeare's dark comedy of sexual desire and hypocrisy, developed by and for the RSC, includes...  Read More >>

Othello is a noble Moor , a North African Muslim who has converted to Christianity and is deemed one of the Venetian...  Read More >>

Franz Grillparzer's (1791-1872) heroines - Sappho, Medea and Libussa among them - have engaged and intrigued audiences...  Read More >>

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Set amidst a contemporary British community, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's new play about a group of working-class friends...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies argues that girls hold a central place in Shakespearean adaptation, taking as its...  Read More >>

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Analysis of the major letters of Mme de Sévigné.  Read More >>

""Adapted from the novel by Luke Harding of the same title, first published by Guardian Faber Publishing, London,...  Read More >>

A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. The first major comedy...  Read More >>

Analisi dei passaggi chiave nel romanzo di Victor Hugo I Miserabili.  Read More >>

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