Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A re-examination of Bertolt Brecht the theatre practitioner in the light of his theoretical writings and his work...  Read More >>

""A study of the many reworkings and adaptations of classic plays on the modern stage which illuminates how each...  Read More >>

A re-examination of Bertolt Brecht the theatre practitioner in the light of his theoretical writings and his work...  Read More >>

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

First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter,...  Read More >>

The search to find engaging and inspiring ways to introduce children and young adults to Shakespeare has resulted...  Read More >>

This book tells the story of the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed and influential project to transform the...  Read More >>

Amid a backdrop of war, conspiracy, and murder, this historical play depicts the unpopular 13th-century monarch's...  Read More >>

Spanish Golden Age drama as an expression of morality falls between the extremes of art-for-art's-sake and utilitarianism....  Read More >>

This is the first study to relate the Greek romances to Elizabethan drama. It focuses upon the Greek romance materials...  Read More >>

By studying the diction of Romeo and Juliet, Robert O. Evans examines this, the most rhetorical of Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Divine retribution, Robert Reed argues, is a principal driving force in Shakespeare's English history plays and...  Read More >>

The mythological, folkloric, and religious beliefs of Western culture have resulted in a long and ongoing history...  Read More >>

Along with Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco, Fernando Arrabal is a major exponent of the Theater of the Absurd....  Read More >>

In this book, Walter Foreman studies the closing scenes of Shakespeare's tragedies, considering the tragic structure...  Read More >>

Shakespeare has been viewed by critics both as a secular writer who affirmed the dual nature of man and as a Christian...  Read More >>

This book, winner of the 1969 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Award, presents a new perspective in the...  Read More >>

Spain's Golden Age, the seventeenth century, left the world one great legacy, the flower of its dramatic genius...  Read More >>

The most neglected of the English Renaissance playwrights are the major Carolines -- Philip Massinger, John Ford,...  Read More >>

Long held as Britain's 'national poet', Shakespeare's role in the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad confirmed his status...  Read More >>

This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restoration drama....  Read More >>

By examining seven different opening nights in New York theaters over the course of the last century, John Harrington...  Read More >>

Mention southern drama at a cocktail party or in an American literature survey, and you may hear cries for Stella!...  Read More >>

To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than the theater,...  Read More >>