Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Die erste monographische Untersuchung der Dramen des Malers Max Beckmann.  Read More >>

In modern life we are all too familiar with ideas of image and celebrity. This highly original study investigates...  Read More >>

Bringing Shakespeare back to life  Read More >>

Theological and psychological interpretations of Shakespeare’s most problematic play have been pursued as complementary...  Read More >>

Hunter shows how Shakespeare uses the major attitudes toward God’s judgment in creating Richard III, Hamlet, Othello,...  Read More >>

With an eye toward Shakespeare’s inherited resources for articulating anxieties rooted in philosophical doubt, Skulsky...  Read More >>

Jean is preparing a birthday dinner for her mild-mannered accountant husband Henry. Good friends Betty and Vic are...  Read More >>

Greek tragedy has held sway over the imagination of audiences for well over two millennia. Collecting essays on...  Read More >>

This is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. Topics covered in this edition include...  Read More >>

First published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic...  Read More >>

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Examines the characteristics of the Wits and their influence on the course of Elizabethan drama. This title is suitable...  Read More >>

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Jonathan Gil Harris challenges the way we conventionally understand physical objects. Turning to Renaissance theories...  Read More >>

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Shakespearean Criticism provides students, educators, theatergoers, and other interested readers with valuable insights...  Read More >>

Helps students contextualize Renaissance drama, while providing explanatory notes to the play.  Read More >>

Shakespeare studies have been dominated by theoretical approaches derived from extra-literary disciplines: Marxist,...  Read More >>

Assembles a composite picture of Shakespeare's afterlives in media and cultural imagination. This title provides...  Read More >>

Provides introductions to various plays and their authors, clarifying their place in Italian culture.  Read More >>

Examines literary texts from different periods, literary traditions and cultures as metatheatre and metafiction....  Read More >>

The Well Read Play is structured to teach the reader how to identify context, structure, significance and character....  Read More >>

An account of the value of experience and emotion in reading Shakespeare's sonnets and of the importance of reading...  Read More >>