Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This work has questions from almost every play, novel, short story, and essay.  Read More >>

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

A brilliant graphic guide to the life and work of the world's greatest-ever playwright, by renowned Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Essays on the work of playwright Tom Murphy.  Read More >>

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download...  Read More >>

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download...  Read More >>

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download...  Read More >>

“Browse the delightful Bardisms to find a fitting quote for any mood, moment, or occasion. But read it through to...  Read More >>

Renaissance Earwitnesses examines how maintaining masculinity on the early modern stage is intimately tied to 'earwitnessing,'...  Read More >>

Alan Ayckbourn was a young actor when an accidental remark led him into the world of playwriting. During rehearsal,...  Read More >>

Instability marked the life of August Strindberg. One of eleven children - only seven survived to adulthood - Strindberg's...  Read More >>

Arthur Schnitzler's most famous play, La Ronde, was published in 1903, but then censored in Vienna and Germany....  Read More >>

In 1904, Frank Wedekind nearly landed himself in jail. His play, Pandora's Box, was confiscated by the authorities...  Read More >>

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"This complete, line-by-line translation makes the language of Shakespeare's Macbeth contemporary while preserving...  Read More >>

With the TV lighting up his living room, Arthur Miller watched his director friend, Elia Kazan, identify fellow...  Read More >>

In 1850, Henrik Ibsen arrived in Christiania (now Oslo), hoping to begin his university education. Yet something...  Read More >>

In 1912, a twenty-four-year-old Eugene O'Neill was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitarium. There,...  Read More >>

After a meeting with Pope Pius IX, Oscar Wilde locked himself in his room emerging only after writing a sonnet inspired...  Read More >>

The optimistic George Bernard Shaw watched happily as the steely modern world made its debut. Shaw hoped that World...  Read More >>

A young Tennessee Williams listened as the doctor diagnosed him with diphtheria, a disease that kept him housebound...  Read More >>

A child, Lorraine Hansberry was in the front yard of her new home, located in an all-white neighborhood, when a...  Read More >>