Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Features historian Tom Holland, actor Simon Callow, Brazil's controversial director Roberto Alvim and Bollywood's...  Read More >>

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Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the...  Read More >>

In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize...  Read More >>

Mr. Krieger attempts to extract a total mythology from Shakespeare's Sonnets and to use this mythology in their...  Read More >>

Although there have been innumerable studies of T. S. Eliot, this is the first to examine closely the changes in...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare intended his plays to be seen, not read. With this thought uppermost in mind, Charney offers here a...  Read More >>

A ""symbolist"" approach has dominated Shakespearean criticism for many years, but Ruth Nevo believes that the emphasis...  Read More >>

Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches...  Read More >>

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These short plays by the great Danish-Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg reveal, in brilliant and sparking miniature,...  Read More >>

Combining scholarship with grace, the author shows in this study that Shakespeare's works are pervasively secular,...  Read More >>

Presenting a background study of honor, the author compares ancient concepts with the sympathetic restatements of...  Read More >>

Centers upon the protagonists of Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra. Originally...  Read More >>

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This compelling argument for the link between Calvinism in English religious life and the rise of tragedy on the...  Read More >>

A most thorough study of the Elizabethan Tragedy of Revenge, its origins, development, the ethical influence affecting...  Read More >>

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Robert Heilman gives an appreciation of Shakespeare as a whole man. Northrop Frye writes on balance and symbolism....  Read More >>

If Shakespeare's last plays--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, and Henry VIII--are to be neither...  Read More >>

Shelley's tragedy, The Cenci, has been regarded as an avant-garde attack on orthodox Christian principles, a celebrated...  Read More >>

In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking ""forms""--verse forms, devices, motives, themes,...  Read More >>

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Although Renaissance scholars generally agree that Della Porta was the finest comic playwright of his generation...  Read More >>