Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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 >>

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

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

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

This monograph analyses the films and plays of Sicilian director Emma Dante by adopting a queer approach and focusing...  Read More >>

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

The work of Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, is intriguing but can also be challenging....  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's Julius Caesar is a treatise on: the power of rhetoric, transformation, decision-making, human psychology,...  Read More >>

This anthology of four plays written or performed between 1662 and 1677 offers a unique snapshot of the diverse...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a treatise on: the power of rhetoric, transformation, decision-making, human psychology,...  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 >>