Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This book draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, the questions...  Read More >>

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Provides a critical introduction to Caryl Churchill's play ""Top Girls"", giving students an overview of the background...  Read More >>

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The 'in-yer-face' plays of the mid-1990s announced a new generation shaped by Thatcherism and defined by antipathy...  Read More >>

Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that...  Read More >>

Historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four...  Read More >>

Provides a comprehensive critical introduction to ""Top Girls"", giving students an overview of the background and...  Read More >>

Focusing on Shakespeare and race, this book addresses the status of Othello in our culture. Erickson shows that...  Read More >>

The first book to provide a detailed and up to date analysis of Priestley’s enormous contribution to twentieth century...  Read More >>

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""Look Back in Anger"" is one of the few works of drama that are indisputably central to British culture in general,...  Read More >>

Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact,...  Read More >>

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive...  Read More >>

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive...  Read More >>

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive...  Read More >>

A new adaptation of Aristophanes' Lysistrata for performance and study by J. A. Ball and Michael Chemers.  Read More >>

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

Homage to Eugene O'Neill re-invokes O'Neill's own muses to offer a re-conception of his artistic world, a re-enactment,...  Read More >>

In 1640 and 1641 Don Bartolomé de Alva translated several theatrical pieces from Spanish into Nahuatl. This book...  Read More >>

Here Art Thou, True Shakespeare! This accessible new guide to Shakespeare's major plays focuses on the essence...  Read More >>

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Looks at the political and social aspects of Friel's drama, in the context of the development of modern Ireland....  Read More >>

""Closer"", emerges as one of the successful plays of 1990s, and one with a continuing afterlife through the academy...  Read More >>

Offering coverage of a range of key plays throughout modern drama, this guides include accounts of performance history,...  Read More >>