Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A dynamic re-imagining of Ibsen's classic play A Doll's House by Anya Reiss  Read More >>

A fascinating study into the world of translation and Shakespeare from the award-winning translator Daniel Hahn...  Read More >>

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This volume explores Mexican dramatic receptions of Sophocles' Antigone from the 20th and 21st century, investigating...  Read More >>

It will be of interest to scholars and students of early modern drama, Shakespeare and Middleton studies, political...  Read More >>

Ibsen Apocalypse historicizes the twenty-first century's most audacious theater work to trace the legacies of modernism's...  Read More >>

This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

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First published in 1961, Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama explores John M. Synge’s works, linking them to Irish life,...  Read More >>

This open access book reframes performance and pedagogy through their shared ‘objects’ and lays the foundation for...  Read More >>

This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

Offering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare’s Twelfth...  Read More >>

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval...  Read More >>

A study of the fragments of Old Comedy, arguing that these fragments greatly enlarge our understanding of the history...  Read More >>

Volume 53 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature,...  Read More >>

A new electric play, NICE THINGS explores the relationship of a gay couple, in the midst of their comfortable years,...  Read More >>

Ibsen Apocalypse historicizes the twenty-first century's most audacious theater work to trace the legacies of modernism's...  Read More >>

The third volume in the anthology, featuring a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands...  Read More >>

Fifty years after its original publication in 1976, this excellent analysis of the psycho-social dimensions of Shakespearean...  Read More >>

The third volume in the anthology, featuring a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands...  Read More >>

Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent,...  Read More >>

Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

Transposed into the early twentieth century, a nonentity named Shakespeare rails against poverty, mediocrity, and...  Read More >>

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Performing Paradise offers a groundbreaking reassessment of one of the most influential yet misunderstood theatrical...  Read More >>