Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Offers an analysis of contemporary British pantomime that addresses the question of how pantomime creates a unique...  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 career of one of the most prominent and versatile writers of the early seventeenth century. Throughout...  Read More >>

A revised critical study covering the various phases of Dario Fo's theatrical career.  Read More >>

Kamiriithu has received considerable attention in the last 25 years. In this ground-breaking study some of the exsisting...  Read More >>

Applying recent developments in new historicism and cultural materialism-along with the new perspectives opened...  Read More >>

A title in the FOLIO TEXTS series of original Shakespeare texts with notes as to subsequent changes that have been...  Read More >>

What are Iago's duties as Othello's Ensign, and why is he so dissatisfied with the appointment? Falstaff loves to...  Read More >>

Using a combined lens of cultural materialist and postcolonial studies to read the early modern inclusion of the...  Read More >>

Lovefuries offers a double bill of performance pieces that explode national and personal pressures to keep silent,...  Read More >>

A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that...  Read More >>

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

This play opens with a touring company dress-rehearsing Nothing On , a conventional farce. Mixing mockery and homage,...  Read More >>

This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays...  Read More >>

Arguably Shakespeare's most famous play, Hamlet is studied widely at universities internationally. Approaching...  Read More >>

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Drawing on hands-on experience from workshops and interviews, this innovative book explores the work of eight gender...  Read More >>

This book is new in the way it tackles the problem of imagining performances of Shakespeare as you read his plays....  Read More >>

Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is a comprehensive companion to The Collected Works of Thomas...  Read More >>

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Explores Shakespeare's philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne...  Read More >>

Contains essays written by some of the scholars of the Spanish Golden Age, exploring some of the many issues that...  Read More >>

This original study explores a vital aspect of early modern cultural history: the way that warfare is represented...  Read More >>