Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A new edition of Arthur Miller's account of his time in China in 1983, directing a production of Death of a Salesman....  Read More >>

Hailed by critics during the 1980s as the decade’s 'Great American Playwright', Sam Shepard continued to produce...  Read More >>

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Over the past thirty-five years Andrew Gurr's work has become the standard means of access to the original Shakespearean...  Read More >>

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

The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth...  Read More >>

This book deals with the character Othello, who becomes mad in William Shakespeare's Othello, and endeavours to...  Read More >>

Originally published: Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.  Read More >>

Powerful psychological drama (1881) exposes hypocrisy of social conventions. Mrs. Helen Alving is haunted by her...  Read More >>

The course of true love never did run smooth. Demetrius and Lysander love Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander, but...  Read More >>

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""Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov and August Strindberg--innovators of modern drama--created characters whose reckless...  Read More >>

Explores what brevity can teach us about the powers and limits of theater  Read More >>

Explores what brevity can teach us about the powers and limits of theater  Read More >>

"*Includes a short biography of Shakespeare. *Explains the historical sources that inspired the plots of Hamlet...  Read More >>

A village. A dragon. A damsel in distress. Into the story walks George: wandering knight, freedom fighter, enemy...  Read More >>

"Includes an introduction with a short biography about Ayn Rand. Comprehensively explains Rand's philosophy, Objectivism,...  Read More >>

"*Includes a short biography of Shakespeare. *Explains the historical sources that inspired the story of Romeo...  Read More >>

What could be worse than falling in love with your enemy?  Read More >>

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"*Includes pictures of Machiavelli and some of the rulers he discusses throughout the book. *Explains the historical...  Read More >>

Jonson's comic masterpiece whichh illustrates the manipulations and schemes people concoct out of greed.  Read More >>