Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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 >>

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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 >>

A meticulously compiled volume on 41 Indian English plays by 33 Indian playwrights from the ancient classical Sanskrit...  Read More >>

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of...  Read More >>

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres...  Read More >>

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

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This book explores how Shakespeare’s original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the...  Read More >>

An introductory study of the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia, its main themes, historical context, and subsequent reception....  Read More >>

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 >>

Dublin Gothic follows three generations of residents in one Dublin house across a century of social upheaval.  Read More >>

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

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An Instinct is a queer horror/thriller about a cabin, a window and, most importantly, an axe.  Read More >>

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

The very first book-length study of theatre censorship in France between the end of the Ancien Régime and the Restoration....  Read More >>

This volume brings together an international group of scholars to probe the intersections between history and memory,...  Read More >>