Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

An excerpt from the beginning of 'AN OUTLINE.' The facts which will thus be established by the Evidence about...  Read More >>

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it...  Read More >>

An anthology of five plays, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the internationally acclaimed ensemble The TEAM....  Read More >>

Moving beyond a traditional study of Polish dramatic literature, Taking Liberties is a masterful intellectual history...  Read More >>

Explains he special effects used to represent storms in the earl modern playhouses, and details how those effects...  Read More >>

Interweaving social and cultural context with close critical analysis of key dramatists' plays, leading scholars...  Read More >>

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

Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, author Tara Pedersen furthers research about...  Read More >>

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

This lively assortment of critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama is an ideal companion to the Modern...  Read More >>

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First published in 1957. This edition reprints the second edition of 1962. The second edition of this book contains...  Read More >>

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This new critical introduction to Churchill examines her political agendas, her collaborations with other practitioners,...  Read More >>

This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness,...  Read More >>

Every woman is capable of striving for perfection and success, if only she realises her true potential. But most...  Read More >>

Throughout the seventeenth century, early modern play readers and playgoers copied dramatic extracts (selections...  Read More >>

Tropes of monstrosity, madness, venereal disease, incest and atheism define a group of macabre plays which burst...  Read More >>

This is the first volume to focus specifically on Rabindranath Tagore’s dramatic literature, visiting translations...  Read More >>

Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular...  Read More >>

Why was revenge drama so popular in Shakespeare's time, and why did supposedly forgiving Christian audiences relish...  Read More >>

Literature provides us with insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social...  Read More >>

Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular...  Read More >>