Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A vivid portrait of Madrid--ideal for the cultured tourist or armchair traveler. Hugh Thomas, best known for his...  Read More >>

A dazzling and ""highly readable"" (Guardian) portrait of Shakespeare as a young artist, revealing how his rich...  Read More >>

"""This new version of Romeo and Juliet, written in accessible modern English, breathes new life into Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

"""This new version of Romeo and Juliet, written in accessible modern English, breathes new life into Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Directed intimately in-the-round by Finn den Hertog, The Fifth Step is a provocative, entertaining and subversively...  Read More >>

Traces the history of Othello's contemporary citations, adaptations, and appropriations across genres  Read More >>

Examines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behavior...  Read More >>

I've got goosebumps. One of us. It's horrendous. July 2011. A far-right terrorist has just massacred sixty-nine...  Read More >>

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"". . . what would happen if humanity reached the stars to only learn the price of purchase too high?"" - Paris...  Read More >>

Open a new portal into Shakespeare’s words—and his Renaissance life—with math and numbers as your key.  Read More >>

"". . . what would happen if humanity reached the stars to only learn the price of purchase too high?"" - Paris...  Read More >>

In your human world you see only so much less but you claim so much knowledge. Experience is not what happens to...  Read More >>

Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation...  Read More >>

What is (a) play? How do Shakespeare’s plays engage with and represent early modern modes of play – from jests and...  Read More >>

This volume offers a comprehensive array of readings of ‘skin’ in Shakespeare’s works, a term that embraces the...  Read More >>

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The classic play, ""Much Ado About Nothing,"" has been painstakingly restored to its original Klingon language by...  Read More >>

In this bold and contemporary reinterpretation of ""Henry V,"" William Shakespeare's iconic historical drama is...  Read More >>

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As Alpha navigates through the labyrinth of his own making, each song reveals a piece of his soul-his fears, his...  Read More >>

One morning, as I was writing, I suddenly understood that as a species, through incredible stubbornness, we were...  Read More >>

Shortlisted for the Popcorn Writing Award 2024 Grieving is weird and expensive. Jamie can’t swim. Fuelled by guilt...  Read More >>

Some stereotypes have an element of truth. A presented set of rules but in the end you get to choose. What happens...  Read More >>

A touching and soaring new musical love story from Oliver Emanuel musical about a man and a woman and the little...  Read More >>