Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Takes a fresh approach to Roman drama by looking at comic and tragic plays from the Republican and imperial periods...  Read More >>

A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spanking When...  Read More >>

A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spanking When...  Read More >>

A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spanking When...  Read More >>

In this sustained full length study of Marlowe's plays, Andrew Duxfield argues that Marlovian drama exhibits a marked...  Read More >>

Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages...  Read More >>

This edition includes freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, with full explanatory...  Read More >>

From ancient Greece to the modern theatre, this book delivers a wide-ranging look at how characters have been conceived...  Read More >>

From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day...  Read More >>

Each volume of Drama for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical...  Read More >>

Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this is an original and accessible synthesis...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare's famous play, Hamlet, has been the subject of more scholarly analysis and criticism than any other...  Read More >>

This entertaining collection gathers together Jane Austen’s wisest and wittiest quotations and is sure to delight...  Read More >>

What is the value of performing Shakespeare’s plays for young people? Using interviews with theatre workers, rehearsal...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Binding Language is an innovative, substantial but highly readable study exploring the significance...  Read More >>

A new edition of the groundbreaking book that took full measure of how Jews were imagined in Shakespeare’s time....  Read More >>

Through its rich foray into popular literary culture and medical history, this book investigates representations...  Read More >>

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From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day...  Read More >>

When his attempts to claim his rights are thwarted by bureaucracy and nepotism, Kohlhaas vows to take justice into...  Read More >>

Focuses on a major polarity in Euripidean drama, including its roots in the tradition and its reception in vase-painting...  Read More >>

The Passionate Pilgrim (1599) is an anthology of 20 poems collected and published by William Jaggard that were attributed...  Read More >>

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Le Jour des rois ou Ce que vous voudrez de William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare, dramaturge et poete anglais...  Read More >>