Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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

These comic interludes highlight the politics, social commentary, and brilliant comedy of Spain's classical theater...  Read More >>

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

This book demonstrates Eugene O’Neill’s use of philosophy in the early period of his work and provides analyses...  Read More >>

With its thirteen essays, spanning different types of Italian ‘resources’, from novellas to dramas, scenarios and...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance brings together the latest international research on performing...  Read More >>

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

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 >>

Modern Tragedy and the End of Worlds: Lillo, Leopardi, Ibsen shows how George Lillo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Henrik...  Read More >>

The book examines the distinction between revision and rewriting in Early New English literature, analysing over...  Read More >>

Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within...  Read More >>

Anna Ziegler's remarkable new play: an introduction to another world where ghosts and dreams are as real as anything...  Read More >>

""An examination of how Shakespeare's late tragedies dramatize loss and grief""--  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the...  Read More >>