Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A panoramic account of a single year uncommonly crowded with seminal works of performance. Surveying American drama,...  Read More >>

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This Element is the first scholarly study of the theatre of Lauren Gunderson, one of the most produced US playwrights...  Read More >>

This book examines the emergence of documentary theatre in Ireland during the 2010s, linking this to a combination...  Read More >>

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

This book showcases the importance of ecological themes in modern literature and will appeal to literary scholars,...  Read More >>

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

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This is the first book to offer a pan-European analysis of Macbeth adaptations across a range of media in the long...  Read More >>

This is the first comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities.  Read More >>

A thought-provoking new assessment of this important Greek dramatic text by a major scholar.  Read More >>

This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. The author focusses...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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 >>