Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, this second edition...  Read More >>

Five universal stories that celebrate the strength of the human spirit, blending hope, humour and heart.  Read More >>

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The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

This book tells a new story about Hamlet, exposing its key philosophical concerns are also significant factors in...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's most vocal woman character, her historical inspiration and her reinventions in performance through...  Read More >>

Argues that Shakespeare's plays are dramaturgically misogynist and that surface-level interventions cannot remediate...  Read More >>

Offers an ecocritical approach to understanding dress in early modern plays and performance  Read More >>

Von Migration, Flucht, Exil, von der Macht des Eros, vom Liebesverrat und Schicksal der alternden Frau gegenuber...  Read More >>

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1952 this book assembles what the author called ‘the basic jokes’ of theatrical burlesque....  Read More >>

First published in 1950, English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans is a detailed examination of representative...  Read More >>

If ever a play had something to say about the art of statesmanship, that play is Sir Thomas More. Its origins and...  Read More >>

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils...  Read More >>

A collection of 10 short plays and essay commissioned by Fishamble in discussion of healthcare inequality, this...  Read More >>

This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary...  Read More >>

An indispensable scholarly resource offering an account of the critical history of one of Shakespeare's major tragedies....  Read More >>

This comprehensive guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets provides an overview of the main themes, features and contexts...  Read More >>

This collection contains four plays by contemporary Korean playwright Myung-Wha Kim - the first translated collection...  Read More >>

The first study to focus on how current aesthetic and methodological shifts in contemporary performance practices...  Read More >>

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 is the first study of the impact of partition on the culture of Ireland....  Read More >>

This collection contains four plays by contemporary Korean playwright Myung-Wha Kim - the first translated collection...  Read More >>

This book addresses an absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of...  Read More >>