Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Figures of a Changing World offers a dramatic new account of cultural change, an account based on the distinction...  Read More >>

"The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare counters a tradition of cultural analysis that...  Read More >>

A story collection full of a fantastic and whimsical assortment of odd characters only Dylan Thomas could have conceived....  Read More >>

Terence and the Verb 'To Be' in Latin is the first in-depth study of the verb 'to be' in Latin (esse) and its contracted...  Read More >>

The comic grotesque is a powerful element in a great deal of Elizabethan literature, but one which has attracted...  Read More >>

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

First published in 1985, this bibliography focuses on the works of S. J. Perelman as a humorist, author, and screenwriter....  Read More >>

First published in 1992, this book focuses on the oeuvre of S. J. Perelman. Taken together, the essays included...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1985, explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare’s audience. First...  Read More >>

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By concentrating on Sam Shepard's visual aesthetics, Emma Creedon argues that a consideration of Shepard's plays...  Read More >>

A revised and improved translation into Polish of a seminal monograph on the dramatic works of Shakespeare by Ren...  Read More >>

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy. This edition...  Read More >>

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This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape...  Read More >>

News culture in England grew—not coincidentally—as a spectacular era of theatrical production and innovation reigned...  Read More >>

Three plays analyzed from a Jungian perspective and a fresh wit, catching contemporary nuances and their continuing...  Read More >>

News culture in England grew—not coincidentally—as a spectacular era of theatrical production and innovation reigned...  Read More >>

It is not our intention to go into this controversy further than to state the nature of it, which we can best do...  Read More >>

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

As a convenient source of wide-ranging critical opinion on early literature, this series contains excerpts from...  Read More >>

The stunning first installment of a new American Odyssey, set over the course of the Civil War.  Read More >>

From the religious environments of medieval Iberia to the theatre companies established in the aftermath of Franco's...  Read More >>

This edition of Shakespeare's Cymbeline foregrounds the elements of romance, tragicomedy and Jacobean stagecraft...  Read More >>