Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The world may change--but Shakespeare's words are eternal. No writer has expressed the truth of our human condition...  Read More >>

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Wang Yun (1749-1819) was a famous playwright in imperial China. Her play """"A Dream of Glory"""" is a significant...  Read More >>

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In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage shows that the drama of Elizabethan and Jacobean England is deeply indebted to the...  Read More >>

Elizabethan Popular Theatre surveys the Golden Age of English popular theatre: the 1590s, the age of Marlowe and...  Read More >>

This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The...  Read More >>

This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which our society 'processes' Shakespeare and the purposes for...  Read More >>

The only substantial text of a series of lectures on Shakespeare by S T Coleridge is that provided by J P Collier's...  Read More >>

As more and more scholars come to realise that the accepted story of William Shakespeare is untenable, this book...  Read More >>

Published to tie in with the revival of this classic play by Harley Granville-Barker at the Almeida Theatre, 25...  Read More >>

Through analysis of both major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre...  Read More >>

Tennessee Williams and His Contemporaries compiles eight transcribed panels that were featured at The Tennessee...  Read More >>

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

A state-of-the-art overview of the rapidly developing field of Shakespeare performance studies. Redraws the boundaries...  Read More >>

Only a year ago, the landowner Nikolai Ivanov was full of energy and optimism, in love with his wife and working...  Read More >>

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Focuses on 100 of Shakespeare's greatest dramatic images - at least one taken from each of his plays. This work...  Read More >>

This is a collection of essays whose title more or less explains its contents.  Read More >>

A collection of twenty-nine essays that range from examinations of the society William Shakespeare lived in, to...  Read More >>

This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies: Volpone, Epicene, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair....  Read More >>