Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

“So we're clear You know, right? You know I’m not that kind of person” Sometimes we can’t find the right words....  Read More >>

An original take on literary history that uses visual satire to explore literature's importance to eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

A straightforward guide to Othello, including a description of the plot, quotations from the play, and a few thoughts...  Read More >>

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's journey into the Forest of Arden....  Read More >>

Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel, Eduqas, Cambridge Assessment International EducationLevel & Subject: AS and A level...  Read More >>

As You Like It by William Shakespeare is a compelling study of the human condition and the enduring quest for love...  Read More >>

Passion divides and unites a spirited pair of lovers in a 16th-century battle of the sexes. Witty dialogue and slapstick...  Read More >>

This new edition of Shakespeare's anarchic comedy, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with acclaimed...  Read More >>

Set in ancient Britain, the story of a king (Cymbeline), his daughter Imogen and his two lost sons Guiderius and...  Read More >>

This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and violence by considering the ways in which their...  Read More >>

"Widely accepted as Shakespeare's earliest tragedy, ""Titus Andronicus"" is the bloody story of a Roman general...  Read More >>

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From the introductory. IN these supreme days of our nation's struggle for existence and freedom, there is no...  Read More >>

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After her father's death, Mariah Malone sends a letter that will forever alter the lives of her family. When Slade...  Read More >>

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This book studies the arts of remembrance in post-Reformation England, including funeral monuments, manuscripts,...  Read More >>

"Originally published in the First Folio of 1623, ""Measure for Measure"" is William Shakespeare's play which was...  Read More >>

Le Malade imaginaire de Moliere. Auteur et homme de theatre francais (1622-1673).  Read More >>

Great tragedy based on Plutarch's account of the lives of Brutus, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Evil plotting,...  Read More >>

A theater classic, often called the best comedy of manners in English, is a delightful play that brilliantly skewers...  Read More >>

In Oscar Wilde in Vienna, Sandra Mayer examines the reception and performance history of Oscar Wilde’s dramatic...  Read More >>

This edition of As You Like It reproduces the First Folio of the play but in modern type. As an aid to understanding,...  Read More >>

A bawdy, vibrant and tumultuous adaptation of James Joyce's classic.It’s Ulysses as you’ve never imagined it before,...  Read More >>