Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Part of a series of graphic novels based on the translated texts of the plays found in the No Fear Shakespeare guides....  Read More >>

There is a mountain of work on Shakespeare's comedies but very little on what, in all the plays, can be described...  Read More >>

Based primarily on previously unpublished interviews with Paul Green, Watering the Sahara is a compelling study...  Read More >>

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

Little Bird Audiobook Classics bring the works of history's greatest artists and thinkers to life. Little Bird makes...  Read More >>

For more than 50 years, Harold Bloom has been an original mind and provocative presence on the international literary...  Read More >>

One of the film critics, a speechwriter on his own and for President Franklin D Roosevelt, a propagandist during...  Read More >>

Explores the cultural meanings, especially the gendered meanings, of material associated with oral traditions. This...  Read More >>

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Part of the ""Barnes & Noble Shakespeare"" series, this title brings us the feisty Katherina (the 'Shrew' of the...  Read More >>

Although often classed as one of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, this play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...  Read More >>

Based in records and iconography, this book surveys medieval festival playing in Britain. It offers readings of...  Read More >>

Sheds light on developments in science, ethics, law, and religion in contemporary culture. This book reveals peculiarity...  Read More >>

Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies, the others being...  Read More >>

Examines the developments in early modern culture as it sought to come to terms with the forces of magic, astrology,...  Read More >>

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This book is astudy ofAs You Like It,which shows how the play represents issues of interest to literate playgoers...  Read More >>

The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes...  Read More >>

This book offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. Using readings of such major...  Read More >>

Provides a survey of issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. This volume contains essays which...  Read More >>

Suitable for those beginning detailed study of ""Twelfth Night"".  Read More >>

Suggests that textual mediators have a positive rather than negative role and that they are collaborators who can...  Read More >>

Shakespeare: A Life in Art brings together in a single volume Fraser's previously published two-volume biography...  Read More >>