Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

First published in 2006, Alek's Sierz's The Theatre of Martin Crimp provided a groundbreaking study of one of British...  Read More >>

A critical study of the theatre produced in the first decade of the twenty-first century with an in-depth analysis...  Read More >>

Introduces and analyses stage performances of texts by Italian Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italy's own...  Read More >>

This book has over 1,183 entries in the dictionary section, these being mainly on playwrights and plays, but others...  Read More >>

"Includes an introduction with a short biography about Ayn Rand. Comprehensively explains Rand's philosophy, Objectivism,...  Read More >>

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Examines the historic and religious context surrounding the work of William Shakespeare.  Read More >>

Examining the commonalities and differences in addressing a notionally 'Celtic' Shakespeare, this collection brings...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia examines masterpieces of early modern English and Spanish theater with attention...  Read More >>

Looking at some of the Shakespearean comedies, author John Vyvyan suggests they express a consistent, profoundly...  Read More >>

This informative volume explores William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream through the lens of sexuality....  Read More >>

"This complete, line-by-line translation makes the language of Shakespeare's The Tempest contemporary while preserving...  Read More >>

Lorca's theatre, like that of Strindberg and Tennessee Williams, voices his personal dilemmas, not least his homosexuality....  Read More >>

Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis...  Read More >>

Exploring the network of social, political and spiritual connections in north west England during Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

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This informative volume explores William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream through the lens of sexuality....  Read More >>

""Explores the rise of the idea of nothing in Western modernity and how this idea is transforming and offering new...  Read More >>

Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis...  Read More >>

This study emerges from an interdisciplinary conversation about the theory of translation and the role of foreign...  Read More >>

Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film,...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare, more than any other author, was able to capture the essence of human nature in all its manifestations....  Read More >>

Each volume of Short Stories for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary...  Read More >>

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