Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Pericles undergoes shipwreck, storm, and a tyrant's fury. He wins love only to have his family torn asunder, but...  Read More >>

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This study aims at examining the contemporary stage adaptations of «Othello» by the four noteworthy contemporary...  Read More >>

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In its long history of performance and reception, Greek drama has been interpreted and adapted in ever-changing...  Read More >>

This book examines the child on Shakespeare's stage. As a life force, an impassioned plea for justice, a legacy,...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath explores Beckett's literary responses to the political maelstroms of...  Read More >>

A re-issue of the acclaimed memoir by David Weston, chronicling the year he spent as Ian McKellen's understudy in...  Read More >>

Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls percolated alongside literary...  Read More >>

Global ShaAny reader interested in Shakespeare Studies, global Shakespeare, Shakespeare in performance, Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Each volume of Short Stories for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary...  Read More >>

Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The plot concerns...  Read More >>

What is it that you would want to be preserved for eternity? A man wakes in the middle of the night to discover...  Read More >>

First produced and performed at the Traverse Theatre, Scotland, on 3 August 2018.  Read More >>

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This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare had ‘small Latin and less Greek’ and to prove that,...  Read More >>

Stevie is 17. She’s peak cool, or so she thinks. In the middle of the wide-eyed stagger from girlhood to womanhood...  Read More >>

A story of a kamikaze love affair with unexpected consequences. Hilarious and heartbreaking, written by Jessica...  Read More >>

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"""Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new...  Read More >>

"""Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of...  Read More >>

Analisi dei passaggi importanti della tragedia di Jean Anouilh Antigone.  Read More >>

"Analysis of the key passages of Anouilh's play ""Antigone""."  Read More >>

Selling Shakespeare provides a new history of Shakespeare's life and career in print, showing how the book trade...  Read More >>