Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Of the three texts of King Lear--the Quarto version printed in 1608, the Folio edition of 1623, and the modern composite...  Read More >>

This volume offers the first English translation of one of India's most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance....  Read More >>

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The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573),...  Read More >>

Hazlitt's lively, opinionated and, in his own time, highly controversial essays on each of Shakespeare's plays are...  Read More >>

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s most loved comedy. This edition...  Read More >>

After the waning of her successful acting career, Mel Ryane found herself creatively adrift and proposed creating...  Read More >>

Using the New Cambridge text, as used by the Royal Shakespeare...  Read More >>

This book establishes an analytical model for the description of existing translations in their historical context...  Read More >>

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These studies of Shakespeare in performance take stage history as a means of knowing the play. Half of these studies...  Read More >>

Twelve leading contemporary directors interviewed in this book answer questions on how to plan a production and...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1933 and republished in 1958, this great work is an imagining, in plain narrative, of the...  Read More >>

This book was originally published in 1964 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. It describes...  Read More >>

This book is a study of the ways actors since the time of Shakespeare have portrayed the character of Shylock. A...  Read More >>

Starting with how theatrical speech was understood in Renaissance England, this book looks at figures of speech,...  Read More >>

Metatheater and Modernity is the first book to link the concept of metatheater with those of baroque and neobaroque....  Read More >>

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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1879 Edition.  Read More >>

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1728 Edition.  Read More >>

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1879 Edition.  Read More >>

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1728 Edition.  Read More >>

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1662 Edition.  Read More >>

From the PREFACE: IN issuing this volume of Henslowe Papers I have to thank in the first place the Governors of...  Read More >>

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