Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Passion, Love, and Qing examines the vitality of Peony Pavilion, the most famous drama in Ming China (1368-1644),...  Read More >>

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The Merry Wives of Windsor is a much neglected comedy by Shakespeare. Initially popular, it was subsequently dismissed...  Read More >>

This collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy develops...  Read More >>

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One of the most memorable Shakespearean characters is Edgar in King Lear. The author asks us to rethink all those...  Read More >>

This collection of 15 essays by celebrated authors in Shakespeare studies and in continental philosophy develops...  Read More >>

The advances made in Shakespearean scholarship within the last half-dozen years seem to justify the writing of another...  Read More >>

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and...  Read More >>

A wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's writings, and the companion volume to Untold Stories.  Read More >>

"Part of the ""Everyman"" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title...  Read More >>

A collection of previously unpublished lectures by the late Martin Lings, Shakespearean scholar and Sufi master....  Read More >>

The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during...  Read More >>

This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the...  Read More >>

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

This comedic play, written by William Shakespeare in the middle of his career, and first published in 1623, is a...  Read More >>

In the 1930s, Ayn Rand was asked to adapt her first novel , We the Living , for the theatre. Her first statement...  Read More >>

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Each volume of Short Stories for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary...  Read More >>

The works of William Shakespeare hold many treasures for those who read them. From the laughter we experience during...  Read More >>

For this updated edition Robert Hapgood has added a section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to...  Read More >>

This follow-up to Ellison's 1989 Stoker Award-winning book of film (and by extension, cultural) criticism picks...  Read More >>

Ravishment of Reason presents a new contextual framework for the study of Restoration drama, demonstrating the important...  Read More >>

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