Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A fresh and thrilling take on a modern love story from Olivier nominee Maimuna Memon (Standing at the Sky’s Edge),...  Read More >>

From the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge’s sodden corpses and Joyce’s dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s...  Read More >>

This volume explores the adaptations of Greek tragedy, performances, and activism of playwright Luis Alfaro and...  Read More >>

In bringing together a group of international experts on Victorian oral culture, this collection examines formats...  Read More >>

A tender and darkly comic play about family, illness, and cowboys — and how to remain standing when everything you...  Read More >>

A major new interpretation of translations of the classics in Tudor England, showing how they applied ancient Greek...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

How can anyone doubt that the world's greatest playwright wrote the plays attributed to him? William Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britain’s most important play-wrights and her four-decade...  Read More >>

Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare’s theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural...  Read More >>

Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britain’s most important play-wrights and her four-decade...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's time and ours each engage intensely with Troy. What both periods share is a view that the matter of...  Read More >>

It's 2023 and Oberon's a sore loser... Take Midsummer Night's Dream, put it in a contemporary Percy Jackson-type...  Read More >>

If ever a play had something to say about the art of statesmanship, that play is Sir Thomas More. Its origins and...  Read More >>

This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by...  Read More >>

Examining historical play performances and texts, Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage demonstrates that seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts,...  Read More >>

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who...  Read More >>

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Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy. It provides facts and importantly...  Read More >>

Euripides and Shaw (1921) looks at Bernard Shaw and English Drama as great stylistic changes were sweeping the English...  Read More >>