Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Wedding Album, the latest play written by renowned playwright Girish Karnad, is a hilarious and moving spectacle...  Read More >>

Contains a dozen essays on issues in post-1969 American gay and lesbian theatre and drama, the period after a raid...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Bringing together the rich characters and wry humor of a celebrated Texas scribe, this book collects three of Foote's...  Read More >>

Collection of critical essays, reviews and articles on Irish theatre by critic Fintan O'Toole  Read More >>

An exploration of modern directors approaches to 'Hamlet'  Read More >>

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Focuses on traditional readings of the classics of world literature. This title helps the reader to achieve a level...  Read More >>

In Gothic Shakespeares, Shakespeare is considered alongside major Gothic texts and writers - from Horace Walpole,...  Read More >>

The essays in Shakespeare Reproduced offer a political critique of Shakespeare's writings and the uses to which...  Read More >>

In Gothic Shakespeares, Shakespeare is considered alongside major Gothic texts and writers - from Horace Walpole,...  Read More >>

Offers an account of Shakespeare's comic transcendence, showing how Shakespeare, by taking on the great themes of...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a tribute to Alexander Leggatt, a critic who has shaped the way the world understands...  Read More >>

This collection of essays offers a vital contribution to this critical debate, and examines its wider implications...  Read More >>

Includes essays that approach Peter Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives...  Read More >>

The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored...  Read More >>

Features essays that approach Peter Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives...  Read More >>

Marlowe's Republican Authorship: Lucan, Liberty, and the Sublime is the first attempt to situate Marlowe's well-known...  Read More >>

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This introductory guide to one Shakespeare's most read and performed plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically...  Read More >>

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This Handbook provides an introductory guide to 'The Winter's Tale' offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware...  Read More >>

This Handbook provides an introductory guide to Richard II offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary,...  Read More >>