Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

In New Labour's empathetic regime, how did diverse voices scrutinize its etiquettes of articulation and audibility?...  Read More >>

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

Shakespeares Komödie Was ihr wollt zweisprachig im Original und in der deutschen Fassung - Seite für Seite im Parallelsatz...  Read More >>

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An outstanding Classic in the great tradition of A.C. Bradley, H.C. Goddard, G. Wilson Knight, and Harold Bloom....  Read More >>

For this updated edition Robert Hapgood has added a section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to...  Read More >>

Now available in paperback, this edition constitutes an archive of source materials in the field of Elizabethan...  Read More >>

Short excerpt: About one hour before noontide the youth WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE accused of deer-stealing and apprehended...  Read More >>

"The dozen essays brought together here, alongside a newly-written introduction, contextualize and exemplify the...  Read More >>

Shakespeares Romanze Der Sturm zweisprachig im Original und in der deutschen Fassung - Seite für Seite im Parallelsatz...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1993. This collection brings together scholarship relating to the language, performance,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1995. Providing the most influential historical criticism, but also some contemporary pieces...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1986. Among the most frequently performed and high admired of Shakespeare’s plays, Twelfth...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1991. Essays here are arranged chronologically within sections: ‘The Play as Text’, ‘Shylock’...  Read More >>

Witty, learned excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed by works of Shakespeare, Ben...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1984. The four parts of this collection of articles, from 1601 to the 1970s, look at the...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1984. With selections organised chronologically, this collection presents the best writing...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988. Arranged by play, the essays presented here focus first on production and then on...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988. Selections here are organised chronologically looking at both theatrical commentary...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1991. Collecting together commentary and critique on ‘the Scottish play’, this book showcases...  Read More >>

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

Originally published in 1995. In three parts – introduction, criticism and reviews – this volume examines the goriest...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1986. This volume points to the rich variety of critical responses to the Henry IV plays...  Read More >>