Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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From the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, an account of the theater's extraordinary two-year...  Read More >>

La cabaña del tío Tom (Uncle Tom's Cabin) es una novela de la escritora Harriet Beecher Stowe. Se publicó por primera...  Read More >>

The theatrical history of A Midsummer Night's Dream, from the 1590s to the 1990s, forms the introduction to the...  Read More >>

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

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In this hardcover reproduction of a rare 1922 edition, the drama of the melancholy Dane unfolds amid haunting black-and-white...  Read More >>

This book offers global coverage of topics central to Shakespeare studies while also extending critical debate in...  Read More >>

Lovers doomed to die as a result of a feud between their warring families. This summarized story is followed by...  Read More >>

Grundriss der Geschichte der englischen Litteratur - von ihren Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart ist ein unveränderter,...  Read More >>

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The women you’ve seen play today, we are more than football players, more than athletes and sportspeople of the...  Read More >>

This book employs the ancient Greek concept of 'nonsense' to explore an observation that has vexed comic scholarship:...  Read More >>

Treating hunger and disgust as political as well as aesthetic categories of experience, this book covers a wide...  Read More >>

What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Does it require explicit engagement with events...  Read More >>

While most critical writing on Jonson concentrates on the plays, poems or masques seen in isolation, this title,...  Read More >>

The book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author...  Read More >>

The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom. In this book, first...  Read More >>

In this book, first published in 1991, David Mann argues for more attention to the performer in the study of Elizabethan...  Read More >>

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In this scholarly and entertaining book, first published in 1987, the author tells the story of Jacobean private...  Read More >>

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In this book, first published in 1990, the author presents a comprehensive critical study of the whole of Jonson’s...  Read More >>