Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This book examines diverse modes of dramatic representation and performance--myth, folklore, ritual, and history,...  Read More >>

Departing from the assumption that female-authored drama has developed its own strategies or revitalized older ones,...  Read More >>

The epistemological uncertainties of the early modern and the postmodern give rise an anatomical desire that is...  Read More >>

Using themed performance reviews and extensive interviews with theatre professionals, this book explores how Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

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Why was revenge drama so popular in Shakespeare's time, and why did supposedly forgiving Christian audiences relish...  Read More >>

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This is the only stand-alone student edition of this important Elizabethan play.  Read More >>

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

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

Scholars have been seeking to understand Sophocles' ""Trachiniae"" for over two millennia. This book offers an English...  Read More >>

In Shakespeare and Language, Jonathan Hope considers the ideas about language that separate us from Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a test subject and cognitive linguistic theory of conceptual blending as a tool, Cook...  Read More >>

Jesus is alive and well in theatre. An examination of our rich English tradition of dramatic portrayals of Jesus....  Read More >>

This introduction locates Webster's plays within the context of the culture from which they sprang. Examining the...  Read More >>

This introduction locates Webster's plays within the context of the culture from which they sprang. Examining the...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare's great Roman tragedy of adultery amid political conflict is now available in a richly documented...  Read More >>

Shakespearean Genealogies of Power: A Whispering of Nothing addresses the new perspective on normativity opened...  Read More >>

By turns delicately lyrical and shockingly violent, Tennessee Williams burst onto the American stage with The Glass...  Read More >>

Among the twentieth century's greatest playwrights, Arthur Miller is recognized today as a formative influence on...  Read More >>

This series publishes works of scholarship drawn from the whole subject range of traditional Germanistik, originating...  Read More >>

An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults, ""road tested"" at the Folger Shakespeare Library's...  Read More >>

An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults, ""road tested"" at the Folger Shakespeare Library's...  Read More >>

Shakespearean Genealogies of Power: A Whispering of Nothing addresses the new perspective on normativity opened...  Read More >>

The essays brought together in this collection offer new perspectives on the eros/death relation in a wide selection...  Read More >>