Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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 >>

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Previously published in German as: Apropos Doktor Faustus.  Read More >>

All the big ideas, simply explained - a compact innovative and accessible guide to the complete works of Shakespeare...  Read More >>

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

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When directors approach Shakespeare, is the play always the thing – or might something else sometimes be the thing?...  Read More >>

This book is about the history of character in modern Irish drama. It traces the changing fortunes of the human...  Read More >>

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Modern Greek national and cultural identities consist, largely, of clusters of cultural memory, shaped by an ongoing...  Read More >>

A new edition of classic prose versions of the complete Roman tales. Illustrated with fresh and insightful introductions...  Read More >>

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Set in the city of Ephesus, the comedy is about the reunion of two sets of long-lost identical twins who were separated...  Read More >>

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In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights...  Read More >>

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First published in 1985, this book examines how workers theatre movements intended their performances to be activist...  Read More >>

This exploration of literary form in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer delivers a timely and fresh approach to the study...  Read More >>

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The fantastical adventure, brings love potions, fairies, intrigue, and royalty, all together under an enchanted...  Read More >>

With the central theme of revenge running throughout, this account in the trilogy sees the fall of many significant...  Read More >>

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