Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The first full-length study of gender performance in East and Southeast Asian Shakespeare productions, this book...  Read More >>

First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book...  Read More >>

The Hero (1925) explains tragedy itself, through a close examination of multiple texts, with a particular focus...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy. It provides facts and importantly...  Read More >>

Euripides and Shaw (1921) looks at Bernard Shaw and English Drama as great stylistic changes were sweeping the English...  Read More >>

First published in 1974, European Drama of the Early Middle Ages stresses the distinctive variety of the dramatic...  Read More >>

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CDE STUDIES (GENERAL EDITOR: ANETTE PANKRATZ) The book series is dedicated to contemporary anglophone playwrights...  Read More >>

A go-to guide to help undergraduates navigate their way through university Shakespeare, examining 16 key plays....  Read More >>

""An examination of how Shakespeare's late tragedies dramatize loss and grief""--  Read More >>

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Join the adorable Bug Friends as they play out a familiar tale. New and seasoned readers alike will find this a...  Read More >>

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

Following the critically acclaimed Beginning and Middle, End is the final play in David Eldridge’s trilogy exploring...  Read More >>

The fourth in a series of books exploring the careers of 28 award-winning contemporary American playwrights, this...  Read More >>

An ""incisive...heartwarming"" (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of the powerful and universal lessons...  Read More >>

Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Signals of Being: A Play in Three Acts stages a captivating dramatic interpretation of a country...  Read More >>

Being a kid is full of things that don’t make sense, Elise. We’re born into something that started ages ago and...  Read More >>

In The Glass Door, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been adapted to make it easier for modern theaters to produce and for...  Read More >>

Returned To A Time Of Loneliness by Manal Khalil .. A literary collection of several literary thoughts that express...  Read More >>

Big Ange, the local dinner lady, becomes a football manager to try and save a young boy from being radicalised....  Read More >>

How can anyone doubt that the world's greatest playwright wrote the plays attributed to him? William Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare's As You Like It offers what may be his funniest, most complex, and most sophisticated presentation...  Read More >>

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