Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This book explores how Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet follows in the footsteps of Dante's revival of Platonic poetry....  Read More >>

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

Charting a history of theatrical resistance to environmental exploitation, this study places Australian theatre...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeare’s time would have understood the sensual world...  Read More >>

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This book tells a new story about Hamlet, exposing it's key philosophical concerns are also significant factors...  Read More >>

Dans un royaume imaginaire, gouverné par un seigneur, fanatique et poète, la souffrance du peuple ne semble pas...  Read More >>

Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

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For hundreds of years, humanity has wept over the ""star-crossed lovers"" of fair Verona, romanticizing their final,...  Read More >>

A new state-of-the-nation play about all the years of our lives by award-winning Sheffield playwright Leo Butler...  Read More >>

Nora Helmer's struggle for identity in 1870s Norway sparks a fight for family and self in a society limiting women's...  Read More >>

Von Migration, Flucht, Exil, von der Macht des Eros, vom Liebesverrat und Schicksal der alternden Frau gegenuber...  Read More >>

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

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Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils...  Read More >>

First published in 1950, English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans is a detailed examination of representative...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1952 this book assembles what the author called ‘the basic jokes’ of theatrical burlesque....  Read More >>

Demonstrates how the career of Britain's first major Black actor, Ira Aldridge, transformed a range of dramatic...  Read More >>

Hedda Gabler navigates a loveless marriage and societal expectations, entangled in a web of past desires and future...  Read More >>

Mark Antony's love for Cleopatra sparks conflict and power struggles in ancient Rome, testing loyalty and leadership....  Read More >>

Queen Margaret wages war on the Yorkists after her son's disinheritance, leading to brutal battles and power struggles...  Read More >>

King Henry IV's crusade plans are derailed by border skirmishes and his son Hal's reckless behavior, as rebellion...  Read More >>