Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A guide to studying Shakespeare. It enables students to make a 'start' on Shakespeare's plays; to read the plays...  Read More >>

This book explores the poetics of ""fancy"" in the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a term often paired with imagination...  Read More >>

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592....  Read More >>

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

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s...  Read More >>

The book begins by reviewing what Shakespeare may have known about Italy, both the attractions and the dangers of...  Read More >>

This book is dedicated to Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, who was the playwright and poet we know as Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

This book is written from the standpoint of 1919. The time has not yet come for telling how the Russian Church met...  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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Hooper questions the now fashionable view that Williams was fundamentally a social writer passionately concerned...  Read More >>

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

This book is a fully illustrated study of Shakespeare's knowledge of visual art, its theories and contemporary debates,...  Read More >>

This book traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-America, arguing for the centrality of...  Read More >>

As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society...  Read More >>

Contains one scene with monologue from 18 of Shakespeare's plays, every scene abridged for performance by students...  Read More >>

This updated edition is ideal to support students when studying and revising for the new A level English Literature...  Read More >>

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<b>For a Better Experience!</b> This is a summary and analysis of the book A Dark Lure by the author Loreth Anne...  Read More >>

Both an enhanced digital edition--the first edited specifically for undergraduates--and a handsome print volume,...  Read More >>

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The Shakespeare Workbook and Video provides a unifying approach to acting Shakespeare that is immediately applicable...  Read More >>

An informative new collection of essays packed with insight into the minds of today's theater makers.  Read More >>

Howard Barker and The Wrestling School have been seen as marginal to the major concerns of British theatre, problematic...  Read More >>