Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

To illuminate the creative uses Shakespeare made of the East, this book looks at the life of the playwright himself,...  Read More >>

Drawing on a variety of cultural materials, this title demonstrates that, despite the triumph of its Christians,...  Read More >>

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, British theatre saw a shift from what critics call 'Restoration' to...  Read More >>

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Feasts, banquets, and everyday meals were central to daily life in Elizabethan England, a world reflected so lavishly...  Read More >>

Offers a guide to the ornate and sometimes bewildering language of Shakespeare's plays and poetry. This work contains...  Read More >>

Macbeth is Shakespeare's stark tale of a tormented nobleman driven into a murderous plot by his ambition to assume...  Read More >>

Considering major works by Kyd, Shakespeare, Middleton and Webster among others, this book transforms understanding...  Read More >>

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An in-depth look at the work of one of the leading contemporary writers in African language - AkinwumiIsola. His...  Read More >>

A theater-lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most important playwrights  Read More >>

A theater-lover's guide to the dramatic works of one of America's most important playwrights  Read More >>

Working from the perspective of the new economic criticism, this study uses close reading and historical contextualization...  Read More >>

Shows the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome and unwelcome, out of which Shakespeare's admirers...  Read More >>

Contains essays, which show the outline of a Shakespeare, the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome...  Read More >>

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

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

This title presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists composed their plays and...  Read More >>

THE OXFORD HISTORY OF LITERARY TRANSLATION IN ENGLISHGeneral Editors: Peter France and Stuart GillespieThis groundbreaking...  Read More >>

In this wide-ranging book that moves from Greek drama to modern poetry, from the meaning of the Logos to the history...  Read More >>

Presents thirty accounts describing how some of theatre's most talented directors have brought Shakespeare's texts...  Read More >>

The first anthology to showcase the rich and diverse dramatic work of Native American women  Read More >>

Studies the representation of gender and religion in Hindi drama from its beginnings in the second half of the nineteenth...  Read More >>