Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

From archaic Greece to the Roman Empire, the remains of comic and satyric performances reveal a range of literary,...  Read More >>

Focusing on Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Webster and John Milton, Martyrs and Players in Early...  Read More >>

First published in 1995, David Nokes' major biography of John Gay (1685-1732) was the first full-length life of...  Read More >>

Studies instantiations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some...  Read More >>

This book is the first attempt by a political theorist to read Shakespeare within the trajectory of political thought...  Read More >>

This collection features eight plays and six interviews with migrant and Irish-born theatre artists who are producing...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1956, this two-volume work contains a survey of contemporary proposals for the restoration...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1956 as part of the Shakespeare Problems series, this two-volume work contains a survey...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best...  Read More >>

First published in 1971.  In writing this text the author’s intent has been as much to tell stories of life and...  Read More >>

That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among...  Read More >>

Why do Shakespeare and the English Bible seem to have an inherent relationship with each other? How have these two...  Read More >>

In this challenging book, first published in 1987, Michelene Wandor looks at the best-known plays in the thirty...  Read More >>

This book examines plays by contemporary playwrights and compares them alongside the works of Eugene O’Neill, Arthur...  Read More >>

An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults, ""road tested"" at the Folger Shakespeare Library's...  Read More >>

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

""Wonderfully informative and fun. You can't do better.""-Charles P. Lord, headmaster, St. Timothy's School, Baltimore,...  Read More >>

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Scholars have already demonstrated that Shakespeare 's language abounds in Biblical allusions and references, but...  Read More >>

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