Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies presents Lawrence Echard's early modern introductions to the...  Read More >>

A high camp cocktail of comedy and cabaret, written & performed by Temi Wilkey, that's a perfect send up of the...  Read More >>

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

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This collection of essays moves plants to the foreground of analysis and brings together some of the rich and innovative...  Read More >>

The book explores how dramatic visions of antislavery provided a site for (re)mediating a white metropolitan—and...  Read More >>

Travesty Actors: Self and Theater in Stalinist Culture is a groundbreaking study of theatrical performance under...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, each of the three playwrights discussed in this book was a radical in his own way, concerned...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of essays by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves...  Read More >>

This book explores the development of Sinhala stylistic drama from its earliest manifestations to the post-independence...  Read More >>

When pregnant Bec enters early labour, she finds herself leaning on ex-boyfriend and father of her baby Alex literally...  Read More >>

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This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton’s legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton’s most...  Read More >>

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett...  Read More >>

In his new book, Gyles Brandreth both explores - and explains - the phenomenon of Winnie-the-Pooh and tells the...  Read More >>

An examination of the messy, often contradictory processes of poetic production and reception. The volume offers...  Read More >>

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference....  Read More >>

Originally published in 1973, Dukore discusses the theory of drama that is the basis of Shaw’s comedies, which present...  Read More >>

This Dyslexia friendly edition has been specially adapted for easy reading. This version now has improved ease...  Read More >>

A fast-paced and quick-witted one-person show exploring the impact of language, identity and their intersections...  Read More >>

Combining spoken word, lyrical storytelling and a pulsating electronic live score, this is the thrilling story of...  Read More >>

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The second collection of plays from one of Britain's most important playwrights, featuring plays on the theme of...  Read More >>

The Brecht Yearbook, published by Camden House on behalf of the International Brecht Society, is the central scholarly...  Read More >>

This illuminating book demonstrates how in the 20th century Shakespeare and his plays were subjected to a sustained...  Read More >>