Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Contemporary plays by a dynamic Peruvian collective showcase the nation’s vibrant cultural and linguistic mosaic...  Read More >>

No description has been provided, leaving the intricate details, rich characters, and evocative settings entirely...  Read More >>

In August 1886, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) received a letter asking permission to dramatize Alice's...  Read More >>

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Through up-to-date essays by historians, biographers, and Shakespeare critics, this Companion offers, first, a systematic...  Read More >>

The first practical guide to exploring Shakespeare and Brecht together with a view to expanding staging and performing...  Read More >>

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The is the first book on neighbourly relationships in early modern English drama. Situating four unique, generically...  Read More >>

The Problem with the Seventh Year is a bloody, unflinching drama about the fine line between being clever and being...  Read More >>

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

Black Sheep is a razor-sharp psalm about the county of Norfolk, tracing the dilemmas facing farming succession....  Read More >>

This book demonstrates Eugene O’Neill’s use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses...  Read More >>

With its thirteen essays, spanning different types of Italian ‘resources’, from novellas to dramas, scenarios and...  Read More >>

An Analysis of all the Plays and Fragmentary Works in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Théâtre complet is the first volume to...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance brings together the latest international research on performing...  Read More >>

This volume explores the disruptive effects of war and social unrest in early modern drama, offering new examinations...  Read More >>

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics...  Read More >>

This book follows a close textual analysis approach and offers a discussion of love as portrayed in ‘Modern’ popular...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1969, Shaw – “The Chucker Out” quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaw’s own essay The Quintessence...  Read More >>

First published in 1971, this first full-length treatment of Shaw as director is important for several reasons:...  Read More >>

It was Shaw’s general contention that all great art was didactic; it was his specific contention that he wrote plays...  Read More >>