Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Explores how French and Algerian dramatists addressed violence, conflict, and war trauma after the German occupation...  Read More >>

An updated and revised edition of James Graham's Olivier Award-winning play about the England football team.  Read More >>

Explores how French and Algerian dramatists addressed violence, conflict, and war trauma after the German occupation...  Read More >>

This revised and updated edition of Ryan Calais Cameron's explosive play Retrograde explores identity, resilience...  Read More >>

In Bury St Edmunds in 1645, new mother Mary, alehouse worker Rose, and local healer Anne find themselves implicated...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's history plays fall into two categories: political dramas and propagandistic pageants. The second category...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's history plays fall into two categories: political dramas and propagandistic pageants. The second category...  Read More >>

Exploring the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare illustrates in characters like Hamlet, Antony and the Macbeths...  Read More >>

Set over the course of twenty years, The Moth sees John, a Black British activist and journalist and Marius, a white...  Read More >>

Bringing African drama to an English-speaking audience  Read More >>

Bringing African drama to an English-speaking audience  Read More >>

This book takes a fresh approach to the work of Arthur Miller, focusing on his lesser-known plays and essays to...  Read More >>

No library is complete without the classics! This leather-bound edition includes the complete works of the playwright...  Read More >>

Studies alternative concepts to received theories and practices of poetry in early modern England  Read More >>

Reconceptualises Shakespeare's representations of selfhood by drawing on the long history behind the modern West's...  Read More >>

First book devoted to Derek Walcott's lifelong engagement with the Atlantic visual arts  Read More >>

This Very Short Introduction introduces the life, work, and influence of one of the greatest dramatists of all time,...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre tells the story of drama and performance in Scotland from the earliest medieval...  Read More >>

Explores the idea that Shakespeare's dramatic writing, which powerfully represents the sea, also resembles it.  Read More >>

The first large-scale study of English baroque literature.  Read More >>

New Drama—a collection of actors, directors, and playwrights in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus—is one of the most...  Read More >>

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In Shakespearean tragedy, language is used to bring about the downfall of characters, but there is also a tragedy...  Read More >>

A searing new family drama set in South Shields in 1977 when Muhammad Ali came to town.  Read More >>