Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Joachim Wilhelm von Brawe (1738-1758) only wrote two plays, the bourgeois tragedy 'Der Freygeist' and the heroic...  Read More >>

As a playwright, screenwriter, and film director, Martin McDonagh has amassed an exceptional body of work since...  Read More >>

COVER DESCRIPTION: Ian Fleming whittled the effigy of James Bond out of his experiences with the British naval intelligence...  Read More >>

This book offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although...  Read More >>

Going Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent...  Read More >>

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The Globe to Globe Festival, held at Shakespeare's Globe in 2012, was an extraordinary cultural experiment offering...  Read More >>

The Theatre of David Greig provides a definitive account of the career to date of this important dramatist. It combines...  Read More >>

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume...  Read More >>

The Globe to Globe Festival, held at Shakespeare's Globe in 2012, was an extraordinary cultural experiment offering...  Read More >>

Provides a new sense of the historical specificity of W.B. Yeats's writings over a wide range of genres, leading...  Read More >>

The Theatre of David Greig provides a definitive account of the career to date of this important dramatist. It combines...  Read More >>

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A biography of the well known play Master Class, as well as lessons in creative writing and how to get a play onto...  Read More >>

Textiles have long provided metaphors for storytelling. To what extent, however, should we take these metaphors...  Read More >>

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Embodying Difference offers a fresh perspective on the current theoretical debates about the role of Latinas in...  Read More >>

Taking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volume's subject, this exciting collection of essays...  Read More >>

Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1961 on the occasion of John Dover Wilson's 80th birthday, this book contains a list of...  Read More >>

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