Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Moving beyond a cisgender, heteronormative framework, this book investigates Shakespeare’s queer legacy on Emily...  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 >>

This volume complements the new edition of the late antique prose comedy Aulularia sive Querolus in the Bibliotheca...  Read More >>

This volume examines the previously overlooked connections between historical manifestations of magic and their...  Read More >>

Dario Fo (1926-2016), winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, was one of the most famous and controversial...  Read More >>

By tracing Shakespearean threads throughout Nabokov's intricate narrative structure, this study offers new insights...  Read More >>

This critical play anthology brings together twenty-three plays by seventeen playwrights from the Frontera/Borderlands...  Read More >>

Top Gs Like Me dives headfirst into the influence of online culture, the pull of toxic masculinity, and the search...  Read More >>

'If I be waspish, best beware my sting'  Read More >>

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of...  Read More >>

This analysis of the Stratford Festival examines the full history of one of the largest and oldest dedicated centres...  Read More >>

This critical play anthology brings together twenty-three plays by seventeen playwrights from the Frontera/Borderlands...  Read More >>

Open a new portal into Shakespeare’s words—and his Renaissance life—with math and numbers as your key “Highly...  Read More >>

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

An introductory study of the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia, its main themes, historical context, and subsequent reception....  Read More >>

In An Ark, the first play created for mixed reality, four actors guide you through a deeply personal exploration...  Read More >>

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

First published in 1964, Greek Tragedy and the Modern World begins with the question what is Tragedy? By examining...  Read More >>

This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher, Massinger, and Field's Thierry and...  Read More >>

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields,...  Read More >>

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>