Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Long before Sofia Coppolas Lost in Translation, long before Barthes explicated his empire of signs, even before...  Read More >>

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Just prior to his death in 2005, August Wilson, arguably the most important American playwright of the last quarter-century,...  Read More >>

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Presents a musical audio adaptation of Shakespeare's drama about the adventures of Pericles, a Prince in the ancient...  Read More >>

A collection of studies written over the last twenty years by the distinguished classicist Alan Sommerstein about...  Read More >>

This collection asks pressing questions about how and why we study performances of Renaissance drama, challenging...  Read More >>

A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key...  Read More >>

A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key...  Read More >>

The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett's poetics through the notion of 'nothing', analysed in...  Read More >>

Using traditional rhetorical theory, this book evaluates moral values in plays since Shakespeare's time. It reviews...  Read More >>

From the controversy in 1995 that heralded Blasted, to her death in February 1999, Sarah Kane built a reputation...  Read More >>

Richard Hillman applies to tragic patterns and practices in early modern England his long-standing critical preoccupation...  Read More >>

Through careful scrutiny of word and deed, the scholarship in Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare reveals the complex...  Read More >>

If you have ever been stuck trying to identify a Shakespearean quote then this is the book for you! With over 3,000...  Read More >>

Prospero and his daughter Miranda are stranded on a lonely desert island. Then a magical storm washes a royal ship...  Read More >>

With """"Much Ado About Nothing"""", Shakespeare advanced his art, rendering the romantic comedy with greater elegance...  Read More >>

Dealing with Shakespeare's darkest play, The Tragedy of King Lear, this title precedes Cymbeline, King of Britain,...  Read More >>

Long before Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation , even before Puccini's Madame Butterfly , Gilbert and Sullivan's...  Read More >>

The Tamer Tamed is the subtitle or alternative title to John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, a comedic sequel and...  Read More >>

In Staging Spectatorship in the Plays of Philip Massinger, Joanne Rochester examines examples of on-stage spectatorship...  Read More >>

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