Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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While offering an alternative history of modernist theater and literature, Puchner provides a new account of the...  Read More >>

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part...  Read More >>

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Lost in Language & Sound is a vibrant and vital collection that...  Read More >>

Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive...  Read More >>

The third and final volume of the only modern edition of Fielding's dramatic works contains nine plays from the...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare Closely Read is a collection of essays, each of which applies the techniques of close reading to one...  Read More >>

This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness...  Read More >>

Criticism, notes, and a bibliography accompany the text of the tragedy.  Read More >>

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Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, this book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis...  Read More >>

'Reading Chekhov is a literary pilgrimage, homage, travelogue, biography, literary criticism and a restrained love...  Read More >>

This book documents how the director, as both interpretive and generative artist, takes William Shakespeare's Twelfth...  Read More >>

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World premiere of BAFTA Award winning writer’s latest play.  Read More >>

Introduces Shakespeare's play ""I Henry IV"", its critical and performance history, critical landscape and different...  Read More >>

""I Henry IV"" has always been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays and this critical guide offers a comprehensive...  Read More >>

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Examines how speculative and satirical descriptions of stupidity function in art and in argument. This title features...  Read More >>

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