Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by...  Read More >>

An instant audio classic! Sir Patrick Stewart draws upon his decades on the Shakespearean stage to bring listeners...  Read More >>

A comprehensive analysis of all Ibsen's plays, written in a clear non-academic prose, which not only takes us through...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies,...  Read More >>

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Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation...  Read More >>

This volume of essays examines creative and visually interesting responses to the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries...  Read More >>

This book presents the first comprehensive study tracing the evolution of dramatic thought in China from its earliest...  Read More >>

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This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular...  Read More >>

This collection celebrates the quadricentennial anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, examining the intersection...  Read More >>

Surveys the considerable nineteenth-century American discourse on and response to the writings of the German dramatist,...  Read More >>

The text genre of the ""Toledot Yeshu"", unique in Judaism, experienced a peak in 18th century Amsterdam, especially...  Read More >>

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

This book explores how Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet follows in the footsteps of Dante's revival of Platonic poetry....  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

Charting a history of theatrical resistance to environmental exploitation, this study places Australian theatre...  Read More >>

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