Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Women Making Shakespeare presents a series of 20-25 short essays that draw on a variety of resources, including...  Read More >>

The most detailed chronological account of Harold Pinter to appear, this new volume in the Author Chronologies series...  Read More >>

A key volume for Shakespeare, African theatre and postcolonial cultural scholars, promoting debate on the role of...  Read More >>

An examination of the processes of adaptation and fictional world-making in Shakespeare's history plays, using his...  Read More >>

Itinerant Spectator/Itinerant Spectacle moves across the landscape of European performance in the late 20th and...  Read More >>

The social, literary and theatrical issues raised by this play, such as its treatment of women and bold experiments...  Read More >>

This book is based on a close study of modern drama texts. In the first section – Dialogue – it studies specific...  Read More >>

Twelfth Night is the most mature and fully developed of Shakespeare's comedies and, as well as being one of his...  Read More >>

This new study of one of Britain's greatest modern playwrights represents the first major, extended discussion of...  Read More >>

"""This translation renews the language of one of Shakespeare's most frequently staged tragedies for a modern audience""--"...  Read More >>

"""This clear, compelling contemporary verse translation retains the power of the original iambic pentameter while...  Read More >>

What could be worse than falling in love with your enemy?  Read More >>

Notes and text on opposite pages numbered in duplicate.  Read More >>

Staged Transgression in Shakespeare's England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together...  Read More >>

This essential study takes a fresh look at The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, Cymbeline and Pericles. Part I uses carefully...  Read More >>

First published in 1930, in Tamburlaine the Great – in Two Parts, Professor Ellis-Fermor discusses early editions...  Read More >>

First published in 1939, The Irish Dramatic Movement is a critical study of the dramatic work of W. B. Yeats, Lady...  Read More >>

First published in 1936, The Jacobean Drama is a brilliant interpretation of the drama written between the last...  Read More >>

First published in 1927, this book aims to trace the development of Christopher Marlowe’s mind and art as these...  Read More >>

First published in 1964, this arresting and original work is a study of the relations between content and form in...  Read More >>

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""All the world's a stage"" is one of Shakespeare's best-known and best-loved monologues, recounted by the melancholy...  Read More >>

Sophocles: The Classical Heritage, first published in 1996, contains a diverse collection of reflection, ranging...  Read More >>

This essential study takes a fresh look at The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, Cymbeline and Pericles. Part I uses carefully...  Read More >>

A fascinating look at one of English literature's greatest mysteries.  Read More >>