Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics,...  Read More >>

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference....  Read More >>

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Discover the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such...  Read More >>

Surprising experiences with performers with intellectual disabilities can raise awareness of subliminal negative...  Read More >>

What Shakespeare's plays can teach us about modern-day politics William Shakespeare understood power: what it is,...  Read More >>

What Shakespeare's plays can teach us about modern-day politics William Shakespeare understood power: what it is,...  Read More >>

In The Glass Door, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been adapted to make it easier for modern theaters to produce and for...  Read More >>

This volume offers an innovative contribution to the field of Cultural Studies. It addresses the intersection between...  Read More >>

This book uses the social transformation that has taken place in Ireland since the decriminalisation of homosexuality...  Read More >>

Transcultural Theater outlines the idea of a transcultural theater as enabling an approximation to and an interaction...  Read More >>

This book lays bare the dialogue between Shakespeare and critics of the stage, and positions it as part of an ongoing...  Read More >>

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The book proposes a new reading of Molière’s classical comedies, focused on a reassessment of his woman figures,...  Read More >>

The only complete English translation of the 20th century masterpiece, Genroku Chūshingura, written by one of Kabuki’s...  Read More >>

The Tempest by William Shakespeare explores themes of power, redemption, and the complexities of forgiveness through...  Read More >>

This is the Italian novella that inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This new English translation of Bandello's...  Read More >>

In Shakespeare's Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote...  Read More >>

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights...  Read More >>

""This book shows Shakespeare confronting political, social, and philosophical issues: the motives of characters...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation pushes back against two intertwined binaries: the idea that appropriation...  Read More >>

Today's British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and, very often, these voices have been those of...  Read More >>

“A plane fell out of the sky, and we happened to be on it” A man hijacks a plane. The plane begins to fall....  Read More >>