Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This volume collects three savage plays from the man André Breton designated as one of the only ""true Dadas"" (alongside...  Read More >>

Whether imaginary or based on real events, stories are at the core of any culture. Regardless of their length, their...  Read More >>

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A comprehensive, up-to-date overview of Senecan studies, this Companion thoroughly examines the complete works of...  Read More >>

How did the court audience of 1611 respond to this unusual play? Situating 'The Tempest' in its time, this guide...  Read More >>

Tragic love story or the downfall of a drunken fool and a ruthless schemer? How did Jacobeans see this play? This...  Read More >>

How did the court audience of 1606 respond to Shakespeare's most disturbing tragedy? This guide to the various contexts...  Read More >>

This seminal book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. There are currently...  Read More >>

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

A short literary guide to one of the US’s greatest African American dramatists, August Wilson’s Twentieth-Century...  Read More >>

A comprehensive, up-to-date overview of Senecan studies, this Companion thoroughly examines the complete works of...  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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This book, together with A Book of Broadsheets makes up an anthology of the 1915 broadsheets distributed by The...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare: Die Komödie der Irrungen / The Comedy of Errors. Deutsch - Englisch Zweisprachige Ausgabe....  Read More >>

With a strong interest in the performance of ancient Greek tragedy, Graham Ley’s short text explores the dynamics...  Read More >>

With a strong interest in the performance of ancient Greek tragedy, Graham Ley’s short text explores the dynamics...  Read More >>

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First published in 1967, this title considers the idea of the ‘well-made play’ in the context of how and why it...  Read More >>

When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement...  Read More >>

In the 1970s the revolution that had swept the British theatre in the 1950s had already become accepted as the new...  Read More >>

Old Vic Prefaces is a collection of the author's talks to the actors on those plays which he produced, while a Director...  Read More >>