Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A guide to sharing three of Shakespeare's best comedies: Background information, quotes, notes, Character-line charts,...  Read More >>

Sharing Shakespeare with students intimidates many of us! But in this series, Catherine takes the fear out of unknown,...  Read More >>

A compilation of columns ( A Year in the Life of Shakespeare ) originally written by the author for the newsletter...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Bible offers an inestimable source of inspiration for the lovers of the English Language. Originally...  Read More >>

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This book brings together new essays by leading cultural critics...  Read More >>

This volume examines the ways in which Shakespeare's plays are designed for hearers as well as spectators and shows...  Read More >>

The Theatre and Films of Martin McDonagh provides a definitive account of the career to date of this important world...  Read More >>

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

Delving into the critical role of the theater in the origins of the novel of interiority, this title reinterprets...  Read More >>

According to the dominant tradition of literary criticism, the novel is the form par excellence of the private individual....  Read More >>

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The duke's authoritarian deputy, Angelo, is hell-bent on stamping out moral decay, reactivating outdated draconian...  Read More >>

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Offers an account of the origins of French feminism to Neoclassical theatre and the court of Louis XIV. This title...  Read More >>

This book explore the ways in which Shakespeare expanded the role of forgetting in histories from King John to Henry...  Read More >>

Virginia Woolf and the Theater demonstrates that drama, theater and performance formed a continuous subtext in Virginia...  Read More >>

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

This book focuses on early modern revenge plays from the perspective of political theory and anthropology, paying...  Read More >>

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The Greek polis was the first society to be monetised and the first to produce drama. This pioneering book seeks...  Read More >>

Drawing upon a wide range of fresh visual evidence, Alan Hughes presents a new account of comedy production in the...  Read More >>