Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This book emphasises the role of verbal as well as visual allusion in positioning the plays of New Comedy within...  Read More >>

Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the...  Read More >>

The first book on one of America’s most eminent contemporary playwrights  Read More >>

The first book on one of America’s most eminent contemporary playwrights  Read More >>

This volume contains: Le Pelerin blanc; L'Homme a trois visages; La Femme a deux maris; Raymond de Toulouse, ou...  Read More >>

One can find plenty of literature on the life and works of William Shakespeare. Much less if any can be found and...  Read More >>

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Ireland’s Abbey Theatre opened in 1904. Under the guidance of W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory, it became instrumental...  Read More >>

As a convenient source of wide-ranging critical opinion on early literature, this series contains excerpts from...  Read More >>

These three plays display the kind of entertainment popular in medieval Egypt. This edition offers the complete...  Read More >>

Lyrical and urgent, Fiona Doyle's play Coolatully is a compassionate insight into the links between the economy,...  Read More >>

A vivid retelling of the plot of Shakespeare's classic play for KS2-3 (ages 9-12)  Read More >>

Providing an account of how Restoration plays were written, performed, printed, adapted and revived for modern audiences,...  Read More >>

Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Drawing together discussions...  Read More >>

Winter Passages is Robert Brustein's nineteenth book of criticism  Read More >>

When a young couple runs off into the woods because they are not alloowed to marry each other, others run in after...  Read More >>

Poetica. Aristoteles. Grecia 384 a. C - 322 a. C  Read More >>

Providing an account of how Restoration plays were written, performed, printed, adapted and revived for modern audiences,...  Read More >>

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Whether the fault of tedious teachers or hammy actors, Shakespeare is often seen as dry and impenetrable. In this...  Read More >>

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From the INTRODUCTORY - ON THE STAGE. THINGS dramatic and things theatrical are often confounded together in the...  Read More >>

The version of The winter's tale and the corresponding footnotes that appear in this volume were originally published...  Read More >>

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Ant. He shall not liue; looke, with a spot I dam him. But Lepidus, go you to Caesars house: Fetch the Will hither,...  Read More >>