Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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

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Die im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts wachsende Diskrepanz zwischen literarischer Dramatik und moderner Bühne brachte...  Read More >>

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

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

The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world’s greatest...  Read More >>

From the stages of Broadway and London to university campuses, Paris, and the bourgeoning theaters of Africa, Greek...  Read More >>

Carter demonstrates that like the contemporary satirical comedy of Aristophanes, or indeed the sculptures of the...  Read More >>

He Says/She Says Shakespeare is a contemporary and groundbreaking approach to the timeless work of the great Bard....  Read More >>

Features Heidi, a young girl caught in the turmoil of World War II, whose father was one of the most dreaded men...  Read More >>

Fresh explorations of the tragicomic drama, setting the familiar plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries alongside...  Read More >>

The first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights...  Read More >>

Part of a series that provides guides to the principal subject-areas covered by the plays and poetry of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Carter demonstrates that like the contemporary satirical comedy of Aristophanes, or indeed the sculptures of the...  Read More >>

This is a fascinating study of African rewritings of Greek tragedy. The authors ask why the plays of Sophocles'...  Read More >>

Tragedy: A Short Introduction reinvigorates the genre for readers who are eager to embrace it, but who often find...  Read More >>

This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical...  Read More >>

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This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's riveting, epic drama of a family in crisis, and a country on the brink of civil war. Wracked by illness...  Read More >>

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Maria Howell's, Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, is an important...  Read More >>

Soul of the age! Ben Jonson eulogized Shakespeare, and in the next breath, He was not of an age but for all time....  Read More >>