Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A panoramic account of a single year uncommonly crowded with seminal works of performance. Surveying American drama,...  Read More >>

This Element is the first scholarly study of the theatre of Lauren Gunderson, one of the most produced US playwrights...  Read More >>

This book examines the emergence of documentary theatre in Ireland during the 2010s, linking this to a combination...  Read More >>

A tender, funny, probing new play by renowned American playwright Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play)...  Read More >>

Examining age as an embodied and socially constructed identity, both on and off the stage  Read More >>

An accessible introduction to the Roman tragedy Hercules on Oeta with chapters on its contexts, key themes and reception....  Read More >>

This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis, the first adaptor of Hamlet...  Read More >>

Examining age as an embodied and socially constructed identity, both on and off the stage  Read More >>

A study of how audiences of Shakespeare's time understood the sensual world of his plays. Could something as seemingly...  Read More >>

Antigone, defying her uncle Creon's decree that her brother should remain unburied, challenges the morality of man's...  Read More >>

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Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. The author focusses...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

This book offers the first full-length scholarly study of Sistren Theatre Collective, one of the most significant...  Read More >>

""The Druriad"" is a biting 18th-century English verse satire, penned anonymously, that offers a vivid and critical...  Read More >>

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

This book offers a compelling examination of how violence reverberates through Renaissance drama and Early Modern...  Read More >>

The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies.  Read More >>

""Reads ""gaslighting"" as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of...  Read More >>

Modern Tragedy and the End of Worlds: Lillo, Leopardi, Ibsen shows how George Lillo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Henrik...  Read More >>

Private View delves into intimacy, power, and identity to capture the beauty, intensity, and messiness of queer...  Read More >>