Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. His work has been praised by figures from G. Bernard Shaw to...  Read More >>

A provocative but serious reflection on Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, showing how the finest plays of Shakespeare...  Read More >>

The book covers a wide range of literary genres, including poetry, theater, prose fiction, and autobiography, all...  Read More >>

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First Published in 1963 A Guide to the Plays of Bernard Shaw is a descriptive and critical account of Bernard Shaw’s...  Read More >>

Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights...  Read More >>

The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first-century notion, but similar concerns...  Read More >>

This unique edition from BayMar Publishing contains the original text, a biography of the author, beautiful illustrations,...  Read More >>

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Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of “the language of Shakespeare” with English by examining...  Read More >>

This new examination of Shakespeare’s four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony...  Read More >>

A collection of performance texts ranging from orthodox plays to group-devised texts. The book traces from most...  Read More >>

Closely examines the original stagings of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the point at which theatrical collaboration...  Read More >>

This is The Scandal of the Century, the true story of the author Aphra Behn, who used a shocking love affair to...  Read More >>

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Performing Restoration Shakespeare embraces the performative and musical qualities of Restoration Shakespeare (1660–1714),...  Read More >>

This book is the first monograph to study the rich correspondences between the works of William Shakespeare and...  Read More >>

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Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks, which was originally published in 1989, was the first publication of Oscar Wilde's...  Read More >>

In this book, Michael Evans discusses what he calls standard dramaturgy a set of seven principles upon which most...  Read More >>

This book features a collection of essays and testimonials that provide new perspectives and incisive criticism...  Read More >>