Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing...  Read More >>

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

Through analysis of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Cavendish, the author reveals how this reconceptualized selfhood...  Read More >>

Witty, learned excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed by works of Shakespeare, Ben...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare in Pakistan provides an extensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan,...  Read More >>

Examining historical play performances and texts, Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage demonstrates that seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

Offering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the...  Read More >>

This book examines the emergence of documentary theatre in Ireland during the 2010s, linking this to a combination...  Read More >>

With contributions from an international range of scholars, this ground-breaking study explores the forms, contexts,...  Read More >>

The first ever stage adaptation of Le Carre's breakthrough novel about Cold War spies, re-imagined by award-winning...  Read More >>

The opening of the first theatre in 1579 created an interplay between the innovations of producers and the perceptions...  Read More >>

In Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, 16 years pass between the end of Act III and the beginning of Act IV. Madonna...  Read More >>

In a world scarred by conflict, where innocence is too often lost to the fires of war, one man's impossible oath...  Read More >>

In Writings on Art and Poetical Theory we see Pessoa exploring, under the guise of various heteronyms, general theories...  Read More >>

Phrases presents the spoken language from six films by Jean-Luc Godard. Gathered here, in written form, they are...  Read More >>

The Shakespeare Handbooks provide a helpful, straightforward guide to the work of the world's most celebrated dramatist....  Read More >>

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

A new Goes Wrong from Mischief theatre: the Cornley Amateur Drama Society are back with tidings of chaos and joy,...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of gender performance in East and Southeast Asian Shakespeare productions, this book...  Read More >>

The Hero (1925) explains tragedy itself, through a close examination of multiple texts, with a particular focus...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy. It provides facts and importantly...  Read More >>

Euripides and Shaw (1921) looks at Bernard Shaw and English Drama as great stylistic changes were sweeping the English...  Read More >>