Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This annotated collection of three early modern English plays on the provocativetheme of domestic domination allows...  Read More >>

Thomas Heywood was a playwright, miscellanist and a translator. Arguing that Heywood's theatrical output deserves...  Read More >>

From the Greeks and Shakespeare to the ""Ramayana"" and the ""Mahabharata"", war has often been a major theme of...  Read More >>

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The book was produced at the moment when controversy with regard to the internal evidence of composition in the...  Read More >>

Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre explores modern theatrical practices in Indonesia from a performance of Hamlet in...  Read More >>

The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: < ul>< i>< li> Antony and Cleopatra< li> A Midsummer Night's...  Read More >>

Shakespeare scholar Shapiro examines and debunks the notorious controversy that often surrounds the authorship of...  Read More >>

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's bittersweet comedy of courtship...  Read More >>

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's journey into the Forest of Arden....  Read More >>

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s great comedy of love, folly and...  Read More >>

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Experiments in Freedom examines ways in which identities have been represented in recent South African play texts...  Read More >>

First performed in 1727, Cardenio or Double Falsehood was based on a play originally written by William Shakespeare....  Read More >>

First published in 1980, this collection of fifteen original essays touches on a variety of topics related to the...  Read More >>

A rare look into the day-to-day private world of Tennessee Williams, written by his secretary who lived with the...  Read More >>

A comprehensive account of the writing and thought of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz.  Read More >>

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

First performed in 1727, Cardenio or Double Falsehood was based on a play originally written by William Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Wales offers a 'Welsh correction' to a long-standing deficiency. It brings together experts in...  Read More >>

A study guide to one of Shakespeare's greatest plays that contains a selection of criticism through the centuries,...  Read More >>

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In a history writ large like the Bard himself, acclaimed author James Shapiro examines the biggest controversy in...  Read More >>

Aeschylus is the oldest of the three great Greek tragedians. Born probably in 525 or 524 BC, he lived through the...  Read More >>