Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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This book provides an introductory study of Beckett'smost famous play, dealing not just with the four maincharacters...  Read More >>

In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the...  Read More >>

Set at the end of the Trojan war, this book depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. It...  Read More >>

In the earliest extant works of Greek literature, Zeus reigns supreme in the Olympian hierarchy. However, scattered...  Read More >>

The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker offers the first comprehensive overview of Wertenbaker's playwriting career...  Read More >>

The Eumenides, the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the Oresteia, is not only one of the...  Read More >>

The eponymous alchemist of Ben Jonson's quick-fire comedy is a fraud: he cannot make gold, but he does make brilliant...  Read More >>

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in...  Read More >>

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students...  Read More >>

The Sonnets, by William Shakespeare deal with the themes of love, beauty and mortality. Shakespeare's sonnets are...  Read More >>

Hamlet's father's Ghost asks his son to 'Remember me!', but how did people remember around 1600? And how do we remember...  Read More >>

This Introduction provides an accessible overview of the life and work of Tom Stoppard, widely considered to be...  Read More >>

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Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson,...  Read More >>

In Shakespeare's Common Prayers, Daniel Swift makes dazzling and original use of the Book of Common Prayer, employing...  Read More >>

Understanding Contemporary American Literature investigates the notoriously complex and confusing dramatic world...  Read More >>

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Upon initial publication in 1956, this book was an attempt to re-state certain problems concerning the aesthetics...  Read More >>

In The Shakespearean Stage Space, Mariko Ichikawa explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his...  Read More >>

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Discusses embarrassment not merely as a condition but as a weapon and as the wound the weapon inflicts  Read More >>

This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted...  Read More >>

This book analyses the different ways in which Ibsen’s plays were and are performed in different cultures on five...  Read More >>

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