Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Durrenmatt's apparently conflicting statements about his central concerns have baffled scholars attempting to interpret...  Read More >>

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If Shakespeare's last plays--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, and Henry VIII--are to be neither...  Read More >>

Through careful attention to the contexts of Renaissance culture invoked by the language, action, and visual spectacle...  Read More >>

Avi Erlich finds that Hamlet deals not with repressed patricidal impulses but with a complex search, partially unconscious,...  Read More >>

In spite of steady growth in popularity, Pinter's plays have continued to elude adequate critical appraisal. Considering...  Read More >>

Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches...  Read More >>

The 171 extant plays of the Yuan period (1279-1368) are the oldest and most brilliant examples of Chinese dramatic...  Read More >>

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This book interprets Mon Faust and explores the differences between Valery's and Goethe's treatments of the Faust...  Read More >>

This anthology, first published in 1939, aimed to present the English ideal in its various aspects as expressed...  Read More >>

We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of...  Read More >>

In the nineteenth century, the French lyric poets imposed their diction on the theatrical genre and thus illuminated...  Read More >>

This book explores key topics in the interpretation of the tragedies of the fifth-century BCE Athenian poet Euripides....  Read More >>

In November 1596 a woman signed a document which would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare... Who was...  Read More >>

This book explores how memories and traces of the reign of Richard III survived a century and more to influence...  Read More >>

The only student edition of Oscar Wilde’s most scandalous play.  Read More >>

Revised throughout, the book includes: a new introduction which focuses attention on what is specific to literature's...  Read More >>

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Reveals the deep, transformative entanglement among science, art, and culture in modern times  Read More >>

Ranging from Leonardo to Hobbes, The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare argues that it...  Read More >>

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

The idea of the tragic has permeated Western culture for millennia, and has been expressed theatrically since the...  Read More >>

Features witty illustrations and inspirational quotes. This title covers every work, from the comedies of Twelfth...  Read More >>