Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via...  Read More >>

A comprehensive history of Roman drama from its beginnings until the end of the Republican period. Its clear structure...  Read More >>

Kristen Poole considers the complex, paradoxical engagements of the demonic, the divine and the spatial environments...  Read More >>

The ideal guide for students and theatre-lovers alike, the Companion explores the longstanding and vibrant Scottish...  Read More >>

The ideal guide for students and theatre-lovers alike, the Companion explores the longstanding and vibrant Scottish...  Read More >>

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The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921 - 90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half...  Read More >>

The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921 - 90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half...  Read More >>

Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who famously demands a pound of flesh as security for...  Read More >>

John Rich (1692-1761) was a profoundly influential figure of the eighteenth-century London stage. As producer, manager,...  Read More >>

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Chances are good that you've used one of the following expressions in your everyday conversations: ""Eaten me out...  Read More >>

Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the...  Read More >>

Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long...  Read More >>

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"Chances are good that you've used one of the following expressions in your everyday conversations: ""Eaten me out...  Read More >>

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Herbert Blau's long sustained inquiry into theater's most provocative questions-presence, liveness, and finitude-are,...  Read More >>

<p>Approaching the subject from a dramaturgical point of view, this investigation differs from anything that has...  Read More >>

Carter explores early modern culture's reception of Ovid through the manipulation of Ovidian myth by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Focuses on political, social, and aesthetic issues to reveal the influence of civic celebration on Renaissance theater....  Read More >>

At odds with the view that Shakespeare was a religious skeptic who only paid lip service to religious beliefs to...  Read More >>

Hassel examines informed allusions to familiar Pauline and Erasmian Christian passages and themes in Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Gruber draws dramatic criticism beyond its traditional emphasis on the play’s text toward a theory of theater that...  Read More >>