Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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

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Analyses the broad range of David Mamet's plays and places them in the context of his career as a prolific writer...  Read More >>

Original essays in this volume are a wide-ranging set of perspectives on one of Shakespeare's greatest works. Reprinted...  Read More >>

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The first anthology to showcase the rich and diverse dramatic work of Native American women  Read More >>

The Halletts' investigation differs from anything that has been written about the relationship between Thomas More...  Read More >>

Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines...  Read More >>

This Norton Critical Edition of one of Shakespeare's earliest and best-loved comedies is based on the First Folio...  Read More >>

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing...  Read More >>

The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: < ul>< i>< li> Antony and Cleopatra< li> A Midsummer Night's...  Read More >>

Lynn R. Wilkinson's Anne Charlotte Leffler and Modernist Drama is the first full-length study of Leffler's dramatic...  Read More >>

The second volume in the definitive biography of the acclaimed playwright  Read More >>

This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools,...  Read More >>

Soyica Colbert explores the history and reception of black performance traditions, including preaching, dancing,...  Read More >>

Jacky Bratton presents a new history of London's West End theatre, finding that the first hit shows staged by Victorian...  Read More >>

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What is the significance of Shylock's ring in The Merchant of Venice? How does Shakespeare create Gertrude's closet...  Read More >>

The six Latin Comedies of Publius Terentius Afer (‘Terence’), written in the second century BC, continued to be...  Read More >>

"Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant...  Read More >>