Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers' and audiences'...  Read More >>

This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher, Massinger, and Field's Thierry and...  Read More >>

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields,...  Read More >>

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>

No Mother, No Future examines how theatre portrays pregnancy loss as challenging dominant narratives linking motherhood...  Read More >>

The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights,...  Read More >>

Examines the reasons why the Folio came into being in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death, and how the now...  Read More >>

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A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

First published in 1961, Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama explores John M. Synge’s works, linking them to Irish life,...  Read More >>

Welcome to Jaja’s! Written by award-winning playwright Jocelyn Bioh, this new comedy takes us into a bustling Harlem...  Read More >>

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation...  Read More >>

This book situates Tilney’s intelligence manual in the emerging genre that developed around intelligence gathering...  Read More >>

This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

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This Element focuses on three Chinese productions of The Vagina Monologues, Yin Dao Du Bai, Yin Dao Zhi Dao, and...  Read More >>

Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities.  Read More >>

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