Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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

One of the most powerful dramas ever written for the stage, Othello is a story of revenge, illusion, passion, mistrust,...  Read More >>

Presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium...  Read More >>

In accounting for the way in which Shakespeare places limits to life (Romeo and Juliet), to time (Macbeth), to the...  Read More >>

These mass market editions of six of Shakespeare's plays feature freshly edited text based on the best early printed...  Read More >>

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In this debut storytelling solo show, Hannah Maxwell narrates her prodigal’s return from London to her hometown...  Read More >>

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

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy of the war...  Read More >>

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D.S.Merezhkovskij horosho izvesten sovremennomu chitatelyu kak filosof, literaturnyj kritik, pisatel', poet, no...  Read More >>

The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is...  Read More >>

Reading and Writing a Screenplay takes you on a journey through the many possible ways of writing, reading and imagining...  Read More >>

Aeschylus' ""Persions"" is the first surviving Greek drama. This book provides aims to provide both a more satisfactory...  Read More >>

Many modern readers believe that in his dramas Euripides was questioning the existence of the gods. In Euripides...  Read More >>

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Towering tragedy tells the story of a Moorish general who earns the enmity of his ensign Iago when he passes him...  Read More >>

A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined never to marry. But when their friends...  Read More >>

Sheds light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The book...  Read More >>

Analyses how the dramatist and poet Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) responded to a change in the conception of sex...  Read More >>