Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Brief Chronicles is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to examining the Shakespeare authorship...  Read More >>

Dans L'Elaboration du mythe de soi, Solveig Hudhomme demontre comment les oeuvres de Samuel Beckett construisent...  Read More >>

Das Deutsche Theater-Lexikon enthält genau recherchierte Artikel über Schauspieler, Sänger, Regisseure, Theaterleiter,...  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 >>

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume....  Read More >>

Theatre of the Borderlands: Conflict, Violence, and Healing is an enlightening and encompassing study that focuses...  Read More >>

This book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. In works by...  Read More >>

Preferring a life of spiritual contemplation, Henry VI leaves politics to his nobles. The resulting power struggle...  Read More >>

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L.W. Conolly’s new edition of one of Shaw’s most controversial plays restores an early final act of the play removed...  Read More >>

Paul Cefalu argues that Shakespearean characters raise timely questions about the relationship between cognition...  Read More >>

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This challenging and lively volume contains essays by Stephen Greenblatt, Elaine Showalter, Jonathan Goldberg, Stanley...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Montaigne is a classic Shakespeare studies text by Jacob Feis. It has always been a daring venture...  Read More >>

One of Shakespeare's late romances - along with Pericles, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale - Cymbeline tells three...  Read More >>

""The version of The winter's tale and the corresponding footnotes that appear in this volume were originally published...  Read More >>

Set in Rome, the poem tells a tragic tale of lust, conquest, violence and politics. Collatine expresses his love...  Read More >>

""The New Penguin Shakespeare"" offers a complete edition of the plays and poems. Each volume has been newly prepared...  Read More >>

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

A detailed examination of Beckett's dramas based on reductionist models in the arts and sciences. Various experimental...  Read More >>

The first book-length study examining how the Shakespearean theatre shaped attitudes about primogeniture, one of...  Read More >>

A figural and typological study of Lope's important historical drama.  Read More >>

Thorough presentation of Pirandello's concepts of drama, reality, stage innovation, and parallels with the theater...  Read More >>

The author shows the English poet's genius in reshaping materials from an Italian neoclassical play to his own Romantic...  Read More >>