Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

Last Thoughts on Euripides is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text edition...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

This book offers the first full-length scholarly study of Sistren Theatre Collective, one of the most significant...  Read More >>

""The Druriad"" is a biting 18th-century English verse satire, penned anonymously, that offers a vivid and critical...  Read More >>

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare  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 >>

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

The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies.  Read More >>

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""Reads ""gaslighting"" as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of...  Read More >>

These comic interludes highlight the politics, social commentary, and brilliant comedy of Spain's classical theater...  Read More >>

Private View delves into intimacy, power, and identity to capture the beauty, intensity, and messiness of queer...  Read More >>

How Shakespeare meticulously crafted every part of Twelfth Night and Macbeth to convey a sage message for humanity...  Read More >>

A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays between 1560-1670 that were performed in private...  Read More >>

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates Eugene O’Neill’s use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses...  Read More >>

With its thirteen essays, spanning different types of Italian ‘resources’, from novellas to dramas, scenarios and...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance brings together the latest international research on performing...  Read More >>

An Analysis of all the Plays and Fragmentary Works in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Théâtre complet is the first volume to...  Read More >>

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I looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in the joke. But she didn't. She just stared. I knew...  Read More >>

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