Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The period 1890-1940 was a particularly rich and influential phase in the development of modern English theatre:...  Read More >>

Anne Varty provides a detailed study of the cultural, personal and political influences that shaped Wilde's writing....  Read More >>

Ecofeminism has been an important field of theory in philosophy and environmental studies for decades. It takes...  Read More >>

What skills did Shakespeare’s actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary...  Read More >>

Edward II: A Critical Reader gives students, teachers and scholars alike an overview of the play’s reception both...  Read More >>

First English edition with commentary on one of Euripides’ finest texts for 125 years, comprising two volumes sold...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day -- so why do we refuse to think of them as mass entertainment?...  Read More >>

In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the individual, the theatre...  Read More >>

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This study of the political and romantic impulses of Shakespeare's tragic characters-including Macbeth, King Lear,...  Read More >>

Drawing on the poetics of intertextuality and profiting from the more recent concepts of cultural mobility and permeability...  Read More >>

This short study is predicated on the assumption that the 'Mr. William Shakespeare' on the title page of the First...  Read More >>

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Shakspeare's Macbeth"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Der Kaufmann von Venedig from William Shakespeare. Englischer Dichter, gilt als einer der groten Dichter der Weltliteratur...  Read More >>

First English edition with commentary on one of Euripides’ finest texts for 125 years, comprising two volumes sold...  Read More >>

Can you really write a play that lasts a minute? The one minute play offers a unique challenge to actors, directors...  Read More >>

In The Philosophical Baroque, Erik Roraback brings a fresh, interdisciplinary eye to a selection of texts from across...  Read More >>

A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly,...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, this book focuses on the oeuvre of S. J. Perelman. Taken together, the essays included...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, this bibliography focuses on the works of S. J. Perelman as a humorist, author, and screenwriter....  Read More >>

By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany's leading...  Read More >>

Kenneth Branagh is the most important contemporary figure in the production of filmed Shakespeare.  Read More >>

By the time Frederich Schiller came to write the Wallenstein trilogy, his reputation as one of Germany's leading...  Read More >>

This volume reprints the Bevington edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with four sections of primary documents...  Read More >>