Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

And I think you can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in you. She was a 17 year old girl; the...  Read More >>

This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell....  Read More >>

STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'Something is rotten in the state...  Read More >>

The daughter of a renowned physician pursues her passion for an elusive bridegroom through a comic maze of mistaken...  Read More >>

Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and...  Read More >>

STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'It will have blood, they say- blood...  Read More >>

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A vivid portrayal of the struggle for power and the complexities of royal politics in the 13th century  Read More >>

This cutting-edge book explores Shakespeare's negotiation of Reformation controversy about theories of salvation....  Read More >>

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts, her fantasies,...  Read More >>

This cutting-edge book explores Shakespeare's negotiation of Reformation controversy about theories of salvation....  Read More >>

"The epic adventure of ""Henry V,"" where the grandeur of medieval England unfolds in a tale of courage, leadership,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using...  Read More >>

""Holed up in her bedroom, Cleo's aired twenty-two Whatsapps from Kara and has cut off contact with the rest of...  Read More >>

""This translation modernizes the language of this comedy and takes the archaic humor and renews it for a contemporary...  Read More >>

""A contemporary translation of one of Shakespeare's earliest explorations of love and friendship""--  Read More >>

"""Updated language makes this cautionary fable about frailty, power, and the perils of legislating morality accessible...  Read More >>

""The British king and his daughter star in a tale of deceit, jealousy, and accusations of infidelity, in updated...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s early comedy reimagined for modern audiences. Love’s Labour’s Lost is a wacky comedy of disguise...  Read More >>

Discussions of Coward’s achievement in the theatre between 1920 and 1966 have tended to stay with the colourful...  Read More >>

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These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume....  Read More >>

"""Julius Caesar"" isn't just some dusty old play - it's about power, betrayal, and the kind of drama that never...  Read More >>

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First complete, integrated corpus of Kyd and first critical edition of his collected works in over one hundred years,...  Read More >>