Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This book explores the reasons for the lasting freshness and modernity of Shakespeare's plays, while revising the...  Read More >>

In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War...  Read More >>

Here, essays use the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world...  Read More >>

This book establishes an analytical model for the description of existing translations in their historical context...  Read More >>

A specter is haunting philosophy -- the specter of Hamlet. Why is this? Wherefore? What should we do?Entering from...  Read More >>

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The great Shakespeare Jubilee festival was held at Stratford, under the direction of David Garrick. The occasion...  Read More >>

A gem of a reference book covering everything you could possibly want to know about Shakespeare between two handsome...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's writing has been seen both as profoundly religious, giving everyday human life a sacramental quality,...  Read More >>

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This book presents a detailed consideration of aspects of Shakespeare's writing style in his plays. Each chapter...  Read More >>

Marlowe's Literary Scepticism re-evaluates the representation of religion in Christopher Marlowe's plays and poems,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's famous play, Hamlet, has been the subject of more scholarly analysis and criticism than any other...  Read More >>

Nabokov's Shakespeare is a comprehensive study of an important and interesting literary relationship. It explores...  Read More >>

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This book brings together a selection of essays on the reception and dissemination of Shakespeare s plays in England...  Read More >>

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Most scholars agree that reading a play is absolutely unlike live performance, but everything else about their relationship...  Read More >>

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Hamlet, Shakespeare’s most famous play, is now available in an all-new, illustrated Norton Critical Edition.  Read More >>

This comedic play, written by William Shakespeare in the middle of his career, and first published in 1623, is a...  Read More >>

A prose retelling of Shakespeare's drama in which young lovers attempt to defy fate.  Read More >>