Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A complete critical introduction to New Historicist and Cultural Materialist approaches that have dominated contemporary...  Read More >>

Like the first volume, this monologue collection is also comprised of 50 for girls and 50 for guys. The different...  Read More >>

Hamlet is one of the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature today, and was one of Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

A complete critical introduction to New Historicist and Cultural Materialist approaches that have dominated contemporary...  Read More >>

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This book is written from the standpoint of 1919. The time has not yet come for telling how the Russian Church met...  Read More >>

the only American dramatist to win the nobel Prize for Literature, Eugene O'neill was the dominant voice in American...  Read More >>

King Lear appalled Dr Johnson and exasperated AC Bradley yet, like subsequent critics,they could not deny the play's...  Read More >>

This play is a revolutionary masterpiece, argues Tom Bishop. Held together by a lyrical energy, it is about love...  Read More >>

In this study the eminent Shakespearean Adrian Poole explains why this play is so different from the four widely...  Read More >>

The revealing and deeply moving autobiography of one of the greatest American playwrights of the twentieth century...  Read More >>

An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Beckett's innovative film and television...  Read More >>

Brill's Companion to Sophocles offers 32 chapters, newly commissioned and written by leading scholars, on Sophocles'...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare’s tragedy of one of the most famous assassinations in the world at an epoch-changing time in history....  Read More >>

The Shakespeare Identity Problem is the last in a long line of investigations of ancient problems by Edward Furlong...  Read More >>

In Volume 1 Edward Furlong began his investigation with all author Shakespeare's published poems as these are personal....  Read More >>

Examines representations of sexual violence on the Restoration stage. By reading theatrical depictions of sexual...  Read More >>

Betrayals, battles, and the bloody road to the crown-Henry VI, Part III is one of Shakespeare's most action-packed...  Read More >>

This book considers the hundred years of re-writes of Anton Chekhov’s work, presenting a wide geographical landscape...  Read More >>

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Power struggles, rebellions, and the slow unraveling of a kingdom-Henry VI, Part II is Shakespeare's gripping portrait...  Read More >>

France is falling. England is divided. And a young king is caught in the chaos. Welcome to the beginning of Shakespeare's...  Read More >>