Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

John O'Keeffe (1747–1833), the Irish playwright who wrote a string of successful comic operas and farces including...  Read More >>

John O'Keeffe (1747–1833), the Irish playwright who wrote a string of successful comic operas and farces including...  Read More >>

From the Renaissance to the present day, this book is the first history of how and why Shakespeare's plays have...  Read More >>

This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates how oaths influence dramatic plots by compelling characters to behave in certain ways, how...  Read More >>

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Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. This title...  Read More >>

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<p>This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes...  Read More >>

Conscientious cross-checking was sub­ sequently done in a number of reference works and contemporary newspapers...  Read More >>

This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s...  Read More >>

This authoritative and innovative volume explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to a wide range of artistic...  Read More >>

Renowned Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen embarked on a riveting journey around the globe, involving run-ins with...  Read More >>

This Companion has established itself as a standard guide to the field, and this revised edition contains three...  Read More >>

This Handbook provides an introductory guide to Much Ado About Nothing offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware...  Read More >>

This fifth collection of Alan Ayckbourn's plays includes Snake in the Grass, If I Were You, Life and Beth, My Wonderful...  Read More >>

A biography of Shakespeare that identifies and expounds the many possible 'lives' that can reasonably be drawn around...  Read More >>

For most of the twentieth century the exuberant fluency of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's art was not regarded as...  Read More >>

Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay,...  Read More >>

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Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings...  Read More >>

The first full-length critical study of lynching plays in American culture  Read More >>

A fully modernized, annotated edition of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Ford's tragedy centred on sibling incest and complex...  Read More >>

A fully modernized, annotated edition of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Ford's tragedy centred on sibling incest and complex...  Read More >>