Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This book examines the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries from the perspective of the period’s radically...  Read More >>

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Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has succeeded in surviving in contemporary culture, and has even managed...  Read More >>

Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere seed of modernism, a crude attempt to reproduce an exact copy...  Read More >>

Under the microscope of recent scholarship the universality of Greek tragedy has started to fade, as particularities...  Read More >>

In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre, scholar and practitioner J.Michael Walton revises...  Read More >>

Argues that seven plays - The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of...  Read More >>

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Examines Antigone's influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and...  Read More >>

[...]Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept...  Read More >>

De ninos, nos hacen cuentos a la hora de dormir, de comer, o para entretenernos. A mi abuela, le gustaba contarnos...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Left and Right brings together critics, strikingly different in their politics and methodologies, who...  Read More >>

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This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in...  Read More >>

Edward de Vere the 17th Earl of Oxford was a generous patron of writers, actors and musicians in the London of Queen...  Read More >>

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In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre, scholar and practitioner J.Michael Walton revises...  Read More >>

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

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

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Contributors to this volume examine the question of transmission and of the educational procedures in16th- and 17th-century...  Read More >>

Within two years of the success of his first play Die Räuber on the German stage in 1781, Schiller wrote a drama...  Read More >>