Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition providing insight into...  Read More >>

This book travels through time and space intending to untangle the enigma presented by Tagore’s plays. The book...  Read More >>

This project explores the rhetorical deployment of tombs and monuments on the early modern stage, demonstrating...  Read More >>

This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the...  Read More >>

Lauded as one of the most important poets and playwrights of the 20th Century, Federico Garcia Lorca was also an...  Read More >>

The second volume of the Theatre complet of Dumas contains the plays written between 1830 and 1832, some of them...  Read More >>

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""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

The third edition of Hamlet offers a completely new introduction to this rich, mysterious play. Supplemented by...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare tells the story of an aging king who divides his kingdom among his...  Read More >>

Alex Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying in the shadow of the Berlin Wall...  Read More >>

Country is cool now – I think it's cool Conor is 17. He lives with his mum in Croydon. He works at a leisure centre....  Read More >>

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The Shakespearean novel is undergoing a renaissance as the long prose narrative form becomes reinvigorated through...  Read More >>

An illuminating analysis of Shakespeare's complex view of desire, the scholarship never diverts attention away from...  Read More >>

In American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors, Christopher Bigsby examines the careers of seven award-winning...  Read More >>

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This collection explores how global early modern performance creates a sense of 'liveness' through media, bodies,...  Read More >>

What distinguishes documentary theatre from other forms of drama? How has it integrated different media across the...  Read More >>

Unless it’s a football match… maybe then or ’em… at the supermarket… food and football, eh, the Englishman common...  Read More >>

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The Shakespearean novel is undergoing a renaissance as the long prose narrative form becomes reinvigorated through...  Read More >>

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Kin is a tribute to forebearers, a beacon to those calling homes into being, and a strata of stories for children...  Read More >>

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