Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

"" Il y a une affaire Shakespeare . Depuis soixante-dix ans que le consul britannique Jo. C. Hart l'a ouverte, elle...  Read More >>

This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan’s dramatic art...  Read More >>

WHO WILL YOU BE? Caesar? Brutus? The spooky soothsayer!? Julius Caesar like you have never experienced it before:...  Read More >>

Who will you be? Hamlet? Claudius? Ophelia? Rosencrantz or Guildenstern?! Hamlet like you have never experienced...  Read More >>

This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance...  Read More >>

A collection of moving plays that recapture a distinct era in American history.  Read More >>

This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance...  Read More >>

Playing out across a gap of 400 years, Anders Lustgarten's visceral play confronts the dangerous necessity of compassion,...  Read More >>

Women's Somatic Training in Early Modern Spanish Theater is the first full-length, in-depth study of female actors...  Read More >>

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Harold F. Brooks takes this popular Shakespearean comedy/fantasy to task, examining all the aspects of the play...  Read More >>

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This comic romp through the lives of literary masters William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes charts their influence...  Read More >>

This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz...  Read More >>

《外国文学名家名作鉴赏辞典系列：托尔斯泰作品鉴赏辞典》为外国文学名家名作鉴赏辞典系列丛书之一，精选俄国作家托尔斯泰小说、戏剧、散文代表作品，采用汝龙、臧仲伦等名家译本。另请研究专家学者为每篇作品撰写鉴赏文章，对作品的写作背景、思想内容、艺术手法等进行赏析，有助于作者领会托尔斯泰作品的独特魅力。...  Read More >>

上海辞书出版社文学鉴赏辞典编纂中心编著的《狄更斯作品鉴赏辞典》为""外国文学名家名作鉴赏辞典系列""丛书之一，精选英国作家狄更斯小说、散文代表作品，采用名家的译本。另请研究专家学者为每篇作品撰写鉴赏文章，对作品的写作背景、思想内容、艺术手法等进行赏析，有助于作者更好地领会其作品的独特魅力。书后附有狄更斯生平与创作年表，供读者参考。...  Read More >>

《外国文学名家名作鉴赏辞典系列：古希腊戏剧家作品鉴赏辞典》为外国文学名家名作鉴赏辞典系列丛书之一，精选古希腊剧作家埃斯库罗斯、索福克勒斯、欧里庇得斯、阿里斯托芬的戏剧代表作品，采用罗念生、周作人等名家的译本。另请研究专家学者为每篇作品撰写鉴赏文章，对作品的写作背景、思想内容、艺术手法等进行赏析，有助于作者领会古希腊戏剧的独特魅力。...  Read More >>

泰戈尔一生写作诗集50部以上，长中篇小说10余部，短篇小说100余篇，剧本20余种，还有各类散文多卷，并创作了2000余首歌曲和1500幅画作。其诗歌继承了古典和民间文学的传统，格调清新，朗朗上口，感情真挚，意境隽永，语言秀丽。其散文则表现出深刻的现实主义，栩栩如生的人物塑造，细致人微的心理描写，情景交融的环境渲染，凝练又形象的语言技巧，奇特而自如的情节结构，都给人留下深刻的印象。......  Read More >>

How might Shakespeare's audiences have responded to this enduringly popular comedy? This guide to the various contexts...  Read More >>

What would a Jacobean audience have made of this grim exposure of human greed? This guide to the various contexts...  Read More >>

This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's great tragicomic romance, ""The Winter's Tale"", includes the newly updated features of the Signet...  Read More >>

This supplement to the Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, amplifies and extends the lexicon published between 1953 and 2012....  Read More >>

William Shakespeare's great Roman tragedy of adultery amid political conflict is now available in a richly documented...  Read More >>

Have fun with this sassy and classy journal and notebook. Stand out from the crowd with a notebook that makes a...  Read More >>