Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Please Please Me is the electrifying story of The Beatles’ meteoric rise and the hidden struggles of their beloved...  Read More >>

A study of four plays by Tony Kushner that are most political and pertinent for our time  Read More >>

Surveys the considerable nineteenth-century American discourse on and response to the writings of the German dramatist,...  Read More >>

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

This volume presents a newly edited text of Euripides' Electra with a scene-by-scene and line-by-line commentary....  Read More >>

This book explores how Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet follows in the footsteps of Dante's revival of Platonic poetry....  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

Charting a history of theatrical resistance to environmental exploitation, this study places Australian theatre...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeare’s time would have understood the sensual world...  Read More >>

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This book tells a new story about Hamlet, exposing it's key philosophical concerns are also significant factors...  Read More >>

Dans un royaume imaginaire, gouverné par un seigneur, fanatique et poète, la souffrance du peuple ne semble pas...  Read More >>

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A new state-of-the-nation play about all the years of our lives by award-winning Sheffield playwright Leo Butler...  Read More >>

Nora Helmer's struggle for identity in 1870s Norway sparks a fight for family and self in a society limiting women's...  Read More >>

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1952 this book assembles what the author called ‘the basic jokes’ of theatrical burlesque....  Read More >>

First published in 1950, English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans is a detailed examination of representative...  Read More >>

This book addresses an absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of...  Read More >>

Demonstrates how the career of Britain's first major Black actor, Ira Aldridge, transformed a range of dramatic...  Read More >>