Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most varied, theatrically self-conscious, and emotionally wide-ranging...  Read More >>

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

About Sweet Cherry Easy Classics: Sweet Cherry Easy Classics adapts classic literature into stories for children,...  Read More >>

For this second edition of Titus Andronicus Sue Hall-Smith has written a new section on recent scholarship and important...  Read More >>

The kingdom grows restless with concern and intrigue over missed loved ones, which causes a secretive search among...  Read More >>

Set in ancient Britain, the story of a king (Cymbeline), his daughter Imogen and his two lost sons Guiderius and...  Read More >>

Helps readers navigate King Lear's history and includes nine primary sources from which Shakespeare borrowed in...  Read More >>

The work of the world's greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars. This is the revised edition.  Read More >>

Shakespeare's classic love story of Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love and are betrayed by the very families they...  Read More >>

Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a play written (at least in part) by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions...  Read More >>

Contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre. This book provides a separate introduction...  Read More >>

Bruce Mason (1921-1982) was a playwright by vocation and widely regarded as New Zealand's best. In this critical...  Read More >>

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A tightly constructed drama which is regarded as one of the William Shakespeare's finest; ""Othello"" is the story...  Read More >>

Set in Scotland, ""Macbeth"" is the story of its titular character, a general in the army, who conspires with his...  Read More >>

Considered by many as Shakespeare's masterpiece and one of the greatest dramas of all time, ""Hamlet"" is the story...  Read More >>

Discusses poetry's aesthetic function as well as its emotional value, revealing at the same time the basic principles...  Read More >>

Northrop Frye has proven to be one of the most important literary theorists of contemporary literary criticism....  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Performance and the Archive is a ground-breaking and movingly written exploration of what remains when...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

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