Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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This book explores the reasons for the lasting freshness and modernity of Shakespeare's plays, while revising the...  Read More >>

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Making a Match examines the various options posed at every stage of English wooing, together with the presentation...  Read More >>

Martin Stevens examines the four extant complete cycles of Middle English mystery plays in light of the most recent...  Read More >>

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Katharine Maus explores the biographical reasons for Jonson's preference for particular Latin authors; the effects...  Read More >>

Elizabeth Belfiore offers a striking new interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics by situating the work within the...  Read More >>

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This compelling argument for the link between Calvinism in English religious life and the rise of tragedy on the...  Read More >>

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Drawing on recent advances in historical knowledge, the author describes contemporary attitudes toward issues such...  Read More >>

Ranging over all the dramatic genres in the Shakespearean canon, this book focuses on plays where medieval drama...  Read More >>

In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize...  Read More >>

This book is a study of Ben Jonson's relationship with his audience in the public theater, as the relationship changed...  Read More >>

Robert Storey's lively and gracefully written study of Pierrot is the first scholarly history of this fascinating...  Read More >>

Joseph Wittreich reveals Samson to be an intensely political work that reflects the heroic ambitions and failings...  Read More >>

This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and...  Read More >>

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This colorful account of Bertolt Brecht's move from Germany to America during the Hitler era explores his activities...  Read More >>