Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Macbeth is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Set mainly in Scotland, the play dramatises the damaging physical...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking new book uncovers the way Shakespeare draws upon the available literature and visual representations...  Read More >>

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Imagining Spectatorship is a highly innovative study in the emerging area of early spectatorship, focusing on the...  Read More >>

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Sales of Shakespeare's works are second only to the Bible. In common with the Holy Book, little is known about the...  Read More >>

Part of The New Penguin Shakespeare series, this text looks at A Midsummer Night's Dream with an introduction,...  Read More >>

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"""This clear, compelling contemporary verse translation retains the power of the original iambic pentameter while...  Read More >>

The theatrical history of A Midsummer Night's Dream, from the 1590s to the 1990s, forms the introduction to the...  Read More >>

This revised and expanded edition of Othello provides a detailed history of the play in production, both on stage...  Read More >>

It's the summer of 1912. Back in Dublin after nine years abroad, Richard, a successful writer, and Bertha, his wife,...  Read More >>

End your struggle with the Bard's prose and appreciate his comedy about the trials and tribulations of love.  Read More >>

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. it is grouped...  Read More >>

What could be worse than falling in love with your enemy?  Read More >>

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection of the Bard's greatest plays is digested...  Read More >>

/A little water clears us of this deed /Though a large scotch might also do the trick...’ To celebrate the 400th...  Read More >>

Hailed by critics during the 1980s as the decade’s 'Great American Playwright', Sam Shepard continued to produce...  Read More >>

This ground-breaking new book uncovers the way Shakespeare draws upon the available literature and visual representations...  Read More >>

Imagining Spectatorship is a highly innovative study in the emerging area of early spectatorship, focusing on the...  Read More >>

Translating Classical Plays is a selection of edited papers by J. Michael Walton published and delivered between...  Read More >>

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