Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of one of Shakespeare's last plays.  Read More >>

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of one of Shakespeare's last plays.  Read More >>

In Ambivalent Macbeth, renowned Shakespeare scholar R.S. White explores how radical ambivalence permeates the atmosphere,...  Read More >>

An assessment of the life, work and reputation of Spain's leading Golden Age dramatist  Read More >>

This book challenges Martin Esslin’s signature tome The Theatre of The Absurd which categorized Absurdist plays...  Read More >>

The work of the world's greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars. This is the revised edition.  Read More >>

A popular soldier and newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet, when his supposed...  Read More >>

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When Rosalind is banished by her uncle Duke Frederick, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest...  Read More >>

The beautiful but sharp-tongued 'shrew' Katherina has sworn never to accept the demands of any would-be husband....  Read More >>

A comprehensive introduction to the work of the preeminent Afro-American playwright of his generation, focusing...  Read More >>

The National Theatre’s years at the Old Vic were the most Shakespearean period in its history, one which included...  Read More >>

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This book explores how Renaissance poet and playwright Ben Jonson negotiated contemporary pressures to forge a satiric...  Read More >>

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For this updated edition Robert Hapgood has added a section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to...  Read More >>

For this updated edition Robert Hapgood has added a section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to...  Read More >>

This is the latest addition to the series. It is fully annotated, with the notes facing the text. The book contains...  Read More >>

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Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature centered on the idea...  Read More >>

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Some of the most famous plays by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revived...  Read More >>

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