Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

With The Beggar's Opera (1728), Gay invented the ballad opera. It is here published for the first time with its...  Read More >>

"This complete, line-by-line translation of Twelfth Night makes the language of Shakespeare's play contemporary...  Read More >>

"This revised 2nd edition of King Lear: A Verse Translation makes the language of Shakespeare's play more modern...  Read More >>

A new type of study guide which combines an exploratrion of  Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students...  Read More >>

A new type of study guide which combines an exploratrion of  Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students...  Read More >>

This one-volume collection contains five editions of poems and verse dramas from the final years in the life of...  Read More >>

A new type of study guide which combines an exploratrion of  Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students...  Read More >>

Nineteen-year-old science genius Luke finally has some peace to work on the extraordinary box in his living room,...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Villains is a close reading of Shakespeare's plays to investigate the nature of evil. Charney closely...  Read More >>

Antigone, Interrupted explores the intertwined history of law, politics, gender and humanism through a new reading...  Read More >>

A professor and a prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them both Larry Newton, one of the most notorious inmates...  Read More >>

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books...  Read More >>

WORK IS IN FRENCH This book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books...  Read More >>

Antigone, Interrupted explores the intertwined history of law, politics, gender and humanism through a new reading...  Read More >>

People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognisable characters in his plays. He turned Beatrice...  Read More >>

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Mit seiner Filmnarratologie bietet Markus Kuhn einen umfassenden, systematischen und zugleich anwendungsorientierten...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the precursor role of Ludwig Tieck in the Romantic revolution in drama which is seen in his...  Read More >>

Die Genretheorie ist einer der grundlegenden Ansätze zum historischen und systematischen Verständnis des Spielfilms....  Read More >>

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The first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights...  Read More >>

Passing Strange attempts to bring contemporary race studies and contemporary Shakespeare studies into an honest...  Read More >>

Erne's groundbreaking study argues that Shakespeare wrote his plays not only with audiences but also with readers...  Read More >>

This study of the Italian Nobel playwright and master performer, Dario Fo, will be of interest to scholars and students...  Read More >>