Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magnificent tragedy of love,...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde: A Literary Life tracks the intellectual biography of one of the most influential minds of the nineteenth...  Read More >>

This first comprehensive study of the ancient Greek dramatic chorus in the fourth century reassesses the traditional...  Read More >>

Henry VI, Part 2 (often written as 2 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written...  Read More >>

""Off the Page offers a series of critical ""scripts"" exploring various cultural texts, and a working definition...  Read More >>

A concise, helpful guide to The Winter's Tale, with a scene-by-scene account of the plot, a few intriguing Shakespearean...  Read More >>

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Passion, deseit, and manipulation lie at the heart of Othello, a chilling tale of misplaced jealousy and wasted...  Read More >>

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Essays for all readers on new directions in Shakespearean performance, adaptation, and criticism.  Read More >>

This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare. Taking three...  Read More >>

This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh,...  Read More >>

""Macbeth"" is Shakespeare's shortest, darkest and most violent tragedy. Although initially written to interest...  Read More >>

Duncan Macmillan's stunning and resonant adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Rosmersholm. This revival of a masterpiece...  Read More >>

The duke's authoritarian deputy, Angelo, is hell-bent on stamping out moral decay, reactivating outdated draconian...  Read More >>

An international team of scholars offers: modernized, easily accessible texts; ample but unobtrusive academic guidance;...  Read More >>

The version of As you like it and the corresponding footnotes that appear in this volume were originally published...  Read More >>

The editor aims at elucidating what may be obscure to the modern reader and at illuminating the meaning by parallels...  Read More >>

This book examines the figure of Joan of Arc as depicted in stage works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,...  Read More >>

This book explores questions of gender, desire, embodiment, and language in Barker’s oeuvre.  Read More >>

""Macbeth"" is Shakespeare's shortest, darkest and most violent tragedy. Although initially written to interest...  Read More >>

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