Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries, Thomas Mann and Shakespeare is the first book-length...  Read More >>

Janet Morgan’s definitive and authorised biography of Agatha Christie, with a new retrospective foreword by the...  Read More >>

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com....  Read More >>

In the wake of the fear that gripped Europe after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, English dramatists, like their...  Read More >>

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

This 1913 volume explores the philosophical significance of the concepts of beauty and aesthetic preference.  Read More >>

Shakespeare enjoys an enduring curiosity. While epilogues are rare in his work, the ones we have can bring us the...  Read More >>

"Part of the ""Oxford Shakespeare"" series, this work identifies the play, ""Timon of Athens"", as a collaboration...  Read More >>

"Presents ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"". The general editors of the new series of 40 volumes have assembled a team...  Read More >>

The drama about the cruelties and excesses of the Roman court is accompanied by information about the play's background....  Read More >>

An illustrated, abridged version of the Shakespeare comedy with background information and explanatory stage directions....  Read More >>

"""This clear, compelling contemporary verse translation retains the power of the original iambic pentameter while...  Read More >>

A Trojan prince becomes disillusioned with love and war after the deceit of his beloved Cressida and the death of...  Read More >>

An exploration of Shakespeare as a global poet Shakespeare in Swahililand tells the unexpected literary history...  Read More >>

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

Drawing on the philosophies of Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Nancy, this volume...  Read More >>

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This new edition of Shakespeare's Cymbeline foregrounds the elements of romance, tragicomedy and Jacobean stagecraft...  Read More >>

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