Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This Arden edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is closely based on the 1609 Quarto. As Katherine Duncan-Jones demonstrates,...  Read More >>

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Bringing together some of the best work from the 2015 Comparative Drama Conference, this book covers subjects from...  Read More >>

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In this challenging book, first published in 1987, Michelene Wandor looks at the best-known plays in the thirty...  Read More >>

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Sir William Davenant (1606–1668) – Poet Laureate and Civil War hero – is one of the most influential and neglected...  Read More >>

Dionysus, god of wine and ecstasy, has come to Thebes, and the women are streaming out of the city to worship him...  Read More >>

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A comprehensive rereading of Shakespeare's plays in light of current debates about free speech and toleration.  Read More >>

A comprehensive rereading of Shakespeare's plays in light of current debates about free speech and toleration.  Read More >>

"Elizabethan and Jacobean Court plays and the First Folio 1623 authorship deception. This new book sheds light on...  Read More >>

Chekov’s works have unflinching integrity in the face of human frailty. With their emphasis on the dignity and value...  Read More >>

Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright's...  Read More >>

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Enable students to achieve their best grade in AS/A-level English Literature with this year-round course companion;...  Read More >>

This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare.  Read More >>

What does it mean to teach Shakespeare with purpose? It means freeing teachers from the notion that teaching Shakespeare...  Read More >>