Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A Shakespeare series that brings to children all the thrilling drama and magic of the original plays.  Read More >>

A fascinating exploration of the origins and development of dramatic comedy, by an award-winning Canadian playwright,...  Read More >>

Fictional or real, pirates haunted the imagination of the 18th and 19th century-British public during this great...  Read More >>

This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the...  Read More >>

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Mark B. Sandberg explores the architectural metaphors that Henrik Ibsen introduced into mainstream Western thought...  Read More >>

This volume offers the first English translation of one of India's most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance....  Read More >>

An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Iphigenia. Includes critical...  Read More >>

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Romeo und Julia (englischer Kurztitel Romeo and Juliet) ist eine 1597 veroeffentlichte Tragoedie von William Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Philaster is a tragicomedy by Beaumont and Fletcher which has much in common with Shakespeare's late plays such...  Read More >>

"""A King and No King"" from Francis Beaumont. Dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre (1584-1616)."  Read More >>

This is the first book-length study of early modern English approaches to Medea, the classical witch and infanticide...  Read More >>

Geo-spatial identity and early Modern European drama come together in this study of how cultural or political attachments...  Read More >>

Pollution is a striking and ubiquitous feature of Greek tragedy. This book undertakes the first detailed analysis...  Read More >>

Here is a rich variety of approaches to teaching Shakespeare, described by authors who are distinguished teachers...  Read More >>

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Gerald Eades Bentley assembles and analyzes the extant theatrical materials of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....  Read More >>

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