Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare  Read More >>

This book offers a compelling examination of how violence reverberates through Renaissance drama and Early Modern...  Read More >>

The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies.  Read More >>

""Reads ""gaslighting"" as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of...  Read More >>

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From the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge’s sodden corpses and Joyce’s dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s...  Read More >>

Private View delves into intimacy, power, and identity to capture the beauty, intensity, and messiness of queer...  Read More >>

How Shakespeare meticulously crafted every part of Twelfth Night and Macbeth to convey a sage message for humanity...  Read More >>

A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays between 1560-1670 that were performed in private...  Read More >>

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a...  Read More >>

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

I looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in the joke. But she didn't. She just stared. I knew...  Read More >>

No Mother, No Future examines how theatre portrays pregnancy loss as challenging dominant narratives linking motherhood...  Read More >>

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An Instinct is a queer horror/thriller about a cabin, a window and, most importantly, an axe.  Read More >>

First published in 1961, Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama explores John M. Synge’s works, linking them to Irish life,...  Read More >>

The very first book-length study of theatre censorship in France between the end of the Ancien Régime and the Restoration....  Read More >>

This volume brings together an international group of scholars to probe the intersections between history and memory,...  Read More >>

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