Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Takes both a textual and theoretical approach to seven plays of Shakespeare. Brayton Polka calls upon the Bible...  Read More >>

Takes both a textual and theoretical approach to seven plays of Shakespeare. Brayton Polka calls upon the Bible...  Read More >>

A student edition of Sarah Kane's seminal play with its uncompromising depiction of rape, torture and violence in...  Read More >>

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"This complete, line-by-line translation makes the language of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet contemporary while...  Read More >>

The latest work of a celebrated American playwright.  Read More >>

Employs carnivalization as a key for interpreting Eliot's work.  Read More >>

Opens a fresh perspective in the debate surrounding the real identity of William Shakespeare. This title offers...  Read More >>

Translated into English for the first time, Daring To Play: A Brecht Companion is the study of Bertolt Brecht’s...  Read More >>

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The Cambridge Shakespeare (1863–1866), is still valued for its careful editorial principles, attractive page design...  Read More >>

This study of the Italian Nobel playwright and master performer, Dario Fo, will be of interest to scholars and students...  Read More >>

Combining political philosophy and theatre studies, Reinelt and Hewitt approach David Edgar as a political writer...  Read More >>

A full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic...  Read More >>

""The Duchess of Malfi"" was first performed in 1614 and published in 1623. This guide offers students and scholars...  Read More >>

Although Barker is not a 'household name' in the UK, he is revered, as both a theatre theorist and a dramatist,...  Read More >>

""The Duchess of Malfi"" was first performed in 1614 and published in 1623. This guide offers students and scholars...  Read More >>

Twenty-fifth Street Theatre Players was established in 1972 as an artists? collective under the direction of the...  Read More >>

Offers an exploration of the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth-...  Read More >>

Sophocles' Antigone has been staged all over the world, and many of these productions have reconceived and remade...  Read More >>

Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-141).  Read More >>

Contains full text, complete audio performance and video highlights, plus interviews with Laurens van der Post,...  Read More >>

A military hero of ancient Rome attempts to shift from his career as a general to become a politician - a disastrous...  Read More >>

New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction,...  Read More >>

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