Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This edition includes freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, with full explanatory...  Read More >>

Becoming Female, the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure...  Read More >>

'Twelfth Night' is the most mature and fully developed of Shakespeare's comedies and, as well as being one of his...  Read More >>

A Critical Companion to one of Ireland's most famous, studied and controversial, playwrights, this provides a detailed...  Read More >>

In the Alcestis, the title character sacrifices her own life to save that of her husband, Admetus, when he is...  Read More >>

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation,...  Read More >>

Charting the ruthless rise and fall of the villainous king, Richard III remains one of Shakespeare's most enduringly...  Read More >>

Arden Student Guides: Language and Writing offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight...  Read More >>

Offers fresh new insights that may give even long-time readers of Shakespeare a new appreciation of the bard's works....  Read More >>

In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism...  Read More >>

Uncommon Tongues explores the tension between the political value of eloquence and its classical definition in...  Read More >>

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The late sixteenth-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor,...  Read More >>

Where did literary modernism happen? This book answers this question, re-evaluating the parameters of modernism...  Read More >>

The impetus for this Approaches to Teaching volume on The Taming of the Shrew grew from the editors' desire to discover...  Read More >>

Dr William Lane Craig is a celebrated Christian apologist, theologian, lecturer, writer, and philosopher. He also...  Read More >>

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An actor's deepest desire is to be understood. But when asked to pronounce such words as ""chanson,"" ""phantasime,""...  Read More >>

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This is a beautifully designed original classic edition of William Shakespeare’s tragedy that is considered one...  Read More >>

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Viola survives a shipwreck, but she thinks her twin brother Sebastian has died.  Read More >>

Viola survives a shipwreck, but she thinks her twin brother Sebastian has died.  Read More >>

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Viola survives a shipwreck, but she thinks her twin brother Sebastian has died.  Read More >>