Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

In 1933, the same year Hitler came to power in Germany, a twenty-seven year-old Samuel Beckett watched as his father...  Read More >>

After twenty-one-year-old Edward Albee flunked out of college, he came home drunk and packed his bags, intending...  Read More >>

As a schoolboy, Anton Chekhov stole into the local theater at night, dressed as his father, and marveled at the...  Read More >>

In 1587, when William Shakespeare was twenty-three, the acting troupe Queen's Men played in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon...  Read More >>

According to legend, on the day of the greatest naval battle of the Persian wars, when Athens finally defeated the...  Read More >>

Noel Coward was a child when he saw an advertisement in the Daily Mirror calling on a talented boy of attractive...  Read More >>

During the Peloponnesian war, Aristophanes watched as the people of Attica, living on the outermost edge of Athens,...  Read More >>

When he was not writing tragedies, acting in his own plays, and innovating ancient Greek theater, Sophocles served...  Read More >>

On February 17, 1673, coughing and wheezing on stage, Molire struggled to finish the fourth performance of his latest...  Read More >>

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In 1962, a nineteen-year-old Sam Shepard escaped from his dysfunctional home in Duarte, California and headed to...  Read More >>

In 1954, Tom Stoppard began working for the Western Daily Press, with the dream of becoming a hard-boiled journalist...  Read More >>

"This complete, line-by-line translation makes the language of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing contemporary...  Read More >>

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Explores the problematics of probability and the psychology of persuasion in Renaissance rhetoric and Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,...  Read More >>

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This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one...  Read More >>

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