Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc....  Read More >>

A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spanking When...  Read More >>

John Field, an ordained minister in the Established Church, described playhouses as “sinks of sin”. Little did he...  Read More >>

This collection of six plays by one of South Africa's leading playwrights and actors features works written between...  Read More >>

In 1967, C.N. Annadurai became Madras state's chief minister with the DMK party. R. Kannan's biography explores...  Read More >>

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The first English translations of the surreal and violent work of one of Francophone Africa’s most accomplished...  Read More >>

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‘You want me to have full penetrative sex with your son, right? I just wanted to, you know, check.' Jack, a young...  Read More >>

Winner of a 2015 Obie Award for Playwriting. Mae has returned home to help her father while he undergoes treatment...  Read More >>

The first English translations of the surreal and violent work of one of Francophone Africa’s most accomplished...  Read More >>

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In this study Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde unmasks the process whereby characters in seventeenth-century French comedy...  Read More >>

In addition to the thirty-six plays of the First Folio, some eighty plays have been attributed in whole or part...  Read More >>

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Hazlitt's lively, opinionated and, in his own time, highly controversial essays on each of Shakespeare's plays are...  Read More >>

The Duchess of Padua is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in...  Read More >>

The Duchess of Padua is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in...  Read More >>

Money talked in sixteenth-century England, as money still does today. But what the sixteenth century's gold and...  Read More >>

Resources and activities to support students in exploring and analysing Hamlet as a literary text and as a drama...  Read More >>

This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted...  Read More >>

In Shakespeare’s Songs Restored, Catherine Henze restores important, previously inaccessible material to nine of...  Read More >>

The basis of this critical examination of Eliot’s work, first published in 1973, is the investigation of his transmutation...  Read More >>