Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Katharine Maus explores the biographical reasons for Jonson's preference for particular Latin authors; the effects...  Read More >>

This intensely personal book develops a new approach to the study of action in drama. Michael Goldman eloquently...  Read More >>

Avi Erlich finds that Hamlet deals not with repressed patricidal impulses but with a complex search, partially unconscious,...  Read More >>

Joseph Wittreich reveals Samson to be an intensely political work that reflects the heroic ambitions and failings...  Read More >>

Martin Stevens examines the four extant complete cycles of Middle English mystery plays in light of the most recent...  Read More >>

Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama...  Read More >>

This book explores the reasons for the lasting freshness and modernity of Shakespeare's plays, while revising the...  Read More >>

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Gerald Eades Bentley assembles and analyzes the extant theatrical materials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....  Read More >>

Durrenmatt's apparently conflicting statements about his central concerns have baffled scholars attempting to interpret...  Read More >>

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This book provides the most complete and definitive study of Roman comedy. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton...  Read More >>

Few Greek tragedies confront the critic with more varied difficulties than the Suppliants, and perhaps no other...  Read More >>

This book is a study of Ben Jonson's relationship with his audience in the public theater, as the relationship changed...  Read More >>

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This study of farce and low comedy in the English theatre covers the period in which farce as a distinct genre had...  Read More >>

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Susan Dean uses Hardy's own metaphor--the diorama of a dream--to interpret The Dynasts, his largest and last major...  Read More >>

Through careful attention to the contexts of Renaissance culture invoked by the language, action, and visual spectacle...  Read More >>

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The seventeenth-century English collaborative authors Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher were not only the most...  Read More >>

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