Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives the familiar...  Read More >>

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The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that,...  Read More >>

An autobiography of Bernard Kops, playwright. It concerns his early years, including in London's East End.  Read More >>

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A revised reprint of this classic drama text with the addition of a new section on Recent Stage History and Critical...  Read More >>

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

Kit Marlowe was the bad boy of the Elizabethan drama, a schemer and player who inhabited a seamy underworld in which...  Read More >>

A fascinating investigation of one of Shakepeare's most compelling characters.People are always looking for new...  Read More >>

A collection of 22 essays, an interview and a few poems translated from Hindi on metatheatre that bring in large...  Read More >>

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

Providing interesting insights into some of the social beliefs and practices in nineteenth-century Assam, the play...  Read More >>

For readers, actors, students, teachers, and theatrical directors, this new translation of one of the greatest plays...  Read More >>

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A biography that provides the historical background to the various Shakespeare plays and sets his life in the context...  Read More >>

Many readers today associate the early modern history play with Shakespeare. While not wishing to ignore the influence...  Read More >>

Contains essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres as well as substantial reviews...  Read More >>

Edward Darrell Figgis (1882-October 1925) was an Irish writer, Sinn Fein activist and independent politician. He...  Read More >>

This volume of the Cornell Yeats contains manuscript materials for both the prose and verse renditions of ""The...  Read More >>

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This study outlines and reiterates the relationship of theatre to casuistry, the Jesuit contributions to Spanish...  Read More >>

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICSGeneral Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley WellsOxford Shakespeare Topics provide students...  Read More >>

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