Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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

Poetry, grime and movement unite in Debris Stevenson’s explosive new play about learning to fall, fail and find...  Read More >>

Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare’s theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural...  Read More >>

Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britain’s most important play-wrights and her four-decade...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's time and ours each engage intensely with Troy. What both periods share is a view that the matter of...  Read More >>

It's 2023 and Oberon's a sore loser... Take Midsummer Night's Dream, put it in a contemporary Percy Jackson-type...  Read More >>

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

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

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who...  Read More >>

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This book explores how Shakespeare’s original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the...  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 >>

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Illustrated Edition: Features 20 stunning illustrations, bringing the drama and characters of the story to life....  Read More >>

We all have a destiny waiting to be fulfilled and Rafe Hawkins, a young Brooklyn boy, is about to embark on a world-changing...  Read More >>

""Traces the long history of skepticism and unbelief in Christianity and Western culture that leads to Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

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

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""William Shakspere and Robert Greene: the evidence"" by William Hall Chapman delves into one of the most persistent...  Read More >>

Delve into the core principles of dramatic technique with Lope de Vega's influential work, 'The new art of writing...  Read More >>