Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

.This penetrating critical analysis is based on philosophical as well as literary points of view. It gives emphasis...  Read More >>

Great tragedy based on Plutarch's account of the lives of Brutus, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Evil plotting,...  Read More >>

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From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s most loved comedy. This edition...  Read More >>

Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in their language abilities and help them develop...  Read More >>

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To the readers who ask themselves: 'What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective,...  Read More >>

This guide is ideal for use in the classroom or for revision, providing insight into characterisation, contexts...  Read More >>

Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926) was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. This biography, first published...  Read More >>

Considering three well-known recent performances of Shakespeare at length, Worthen suggests how they provide a commentary...  Read More >>

Jonathan Post introduces all of Shakespeare's poetry, including the sonnets and his great narrative poems, and explores...  Read More >>

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This book offers a modern edition of three fascinating and important works by Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), an English...  Read More >>

Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and ""electability""... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between politics and Shakespeare performance in East Germany before, during...  Read More >>

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Il est question ici, en priorit , de la recherche du temps perdu dans 'Hamlet' car la temporalit , bouscul e d s...  Read More >>

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T S Eliot, udually considered to be difficult and obscure, must be approached through the images running through...  Read More >>

First published in 1581, Epitomes de cent histoires tragiques was tanslated into English as The Orator in 1596....  Read More >>

Premiered at the National Theatre and winner of both the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Play, Alan Bennett’s The...  Read More >>

Tartuffe, or The Impostor (pronounced: [taRtuf]; French: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur), first performed in 1664, is...  Read More >>

The startling central idea behind this study is that the rediscovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the sixteenth century...  Read More >>