Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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

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This book introduces contemporary critical perspectives to the study of ancient Latin narrative texts, demonstrating...  Read More >>

The first major work to explore and analyse the popular 'extra-theatrical' performances which occurred in late medieval...  Read More >>

Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized...  Read More >>

The first ever stage adaptation of Le Carre's breakthrough novel about Cold War spies, re-imagined by award-winning...  Read More >>

This dynamic and ambitious new work about cochlear implants, the Deaf community and cultural identity explores ideas...  Read More >>

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

Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized...  Read More >>

This study examines ten Irish versions of Greek tragedy that have been written and produced between 1988 and 2019....  Read More >>

This book is an in-depth exploration of the mutual transformation of drama and media environments in early modern...  Read More >>

This transdisciplinary study expands on theories of theatricality beyond performance studies and into poetry, media...  Read More >>

Having performed the role of Cleopatra on numerous occasions, Vanessa Redgrave delivered a lecture at the Oxford...  Read More >>

Combines the study of early modern circuits of disease with a focus on care in the context of early modern English...  Read More >>

Provides a detailed overview of the history, concepts, and current debates at the intersection of disability theory...  Read More >>

Examines the comedies of Aristophanes from the perspective of the playwright as a political ‘correspondent’ rather...  Read More >>

Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism traces the development of fringe theatre in Russia over the course...  Read More >>

In Writings on Art and Poetical Theory we see Pessoa exploring, under the guise of various heteronyms, general theories...  Read More >>

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This Handbook puts Wilde the Icon into an expansive literary, cultural, and dramatic context. Its thirty-six contributors...  Read More >>

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