Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The integration of drama and scholastic moral philosophy was an important aspect of the critical theory of this...  Read More >>

In this study Arrabal's plays are seen as a contemporary expression of a festive form of theater that flourished...  Read More >>

The poetry of Robert Browning has been the subject of extensive literary criticism since his death in 1889. Two...  Read More >>

In this provocative study Rose Zimbardo examines a crucial revolution in aesthetics that took place in the late...  Read More >>

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Of especial value to musicologists is the bibliography of extant music used in dramatic works of the period.  Read More >>

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This important book sheds new light on both the artistic and the political climate of seventeenth-century England....  Read More >>

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In his earlier work on King Lear, Mr. Heilman combined a number of critical procedures to form a new and important...  Read More >>

Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American...  Read More >>

In 1976 a dozen hopeful young Mexican dramatists -- most of them studying with Emilio Carballido -- began staging...  Read More >>

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

Introducing the English-language audience to the work of one of France's leading contemporary dramatists - winner...  Read More >>

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

Although there has been a general revival of interest in Ben Jonson's dramatic work in the past twenty years, little...  Read More >>

In this compact, yet comprehensive exploration of Shakespeare's romances, Robert W. Uphaus suggests that the romances...  Read More >>

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

Some of the most famous plays in the English language were performed on the stage of the Rose theater, which stood...  Read More >>

This volume is a sequel to Four Comedies of Calderón (1980), which was hailed by reviewers as superb, faithful,...  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 >>

Theatre of Crisis is an important source of information for Latin Americanists as well as theatre specialists and...  Read More >>

As she demonstrates, Shakespeare's works, and English literature in general, came to be defined by their words rather...  Read More >>