Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

By seeding the plays with allusions to biblical covenant stories, Shakespeare not only lends ethical weight to secular...  Read More >>

Set in Rome, the poem tells a tragic tale of lust, conquest, violence and politics. Collatine expresses his love...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

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

Act out the tragedy of Hamlet, a prince who avenges his father's wrongful death, in this thrilling script! All students...  Read More >>

Rome is in turmoil. With the Emperor dead, his two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, quarrel over who should succeed...  Read More >>

Long before Shakespeare’s name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was...  Read More >>

About Sweet Cherry Easy Classics:Sweet Cherry Easy Classics adapts classic literature into stories for children,...  Read More >>

A revised edition of this play.  Read More >>

Shakespeare's comic play about the separation and eventual reuniting of twin brothers.  Read More >>

Presents the story of Antonio who risks his life to borrow money from his enemy, Shylock, and is saved by Portia,...  Read More >>

A comedy of Petruchio's determination to subdue the irascible Katherine and to make her his wife.  Read More >>

This edition of King Richard III contains the full text, extensive notes and supplementary material written especially...  Read More >>

Notes on the background and sources of the tragedy and past and present criticism preface the text.  Read More >>

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

A new edition of Shakespeare's late romantic tragicomedy, Cymbeline.  Read More >>

"""Orsino is in love with Olivia, but she's mourning for her dead brother, so has rejected all his advances so far....  Read More >>

"""Designed to supplement, not supplant, the original, this adaptation illuminates Shakespeare's meaning for modern...  Read More >>

Now imagined as a stunning graphic adventure, William Shakespeare's classic drama is revealed as a timeless political...  Read More >>

Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy,...  Read More >>

In the Duke Vincentio's absence from Vienna, his strict deputy Angelo revives an ancient law forbidding sex outside...  Read More >>

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

Edited and introduced by William C. Carroll, this edition of Love's Labour Lost features a lively account of the...  Read More >>

Sex, Gender, and Sexualities in the Plays of Edward Albee contains a general introduction and eleven essays by American...  Read More >>

""The version of The winter's tale and the corresponding footnotes that appear in this volume were originally published...  Read More >>