Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

With essays on a range of Shakespeare's works and topics from performance theory to the emergence of 'the literary'...  Read More >>

Representationalism and its subject mark the beginning of political modernity; Shakespeare's tragedies greet political...  Read More >>

This Focus student edition is a Spanish drama of women in the villages of Spain. The play centers on the events...  Read More >>

There are many books about William Shakespeare but few written for the visitor which deal so thoroughly with his...  Read More >>

A revised edition of the comedy covers the playwright's life and theater, an introduction to the play, sources,...  Read More >>

This translation of Romeo and Juliet into contemporary English--alongside the original text--has modernized the...  Read More >>

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With dramatic criticism and commentaries from such authors as George Bernard Shaw and Peter Holland, as well as...  Read More >>

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

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Explores the career of one of the most prominent and versatile writers of the early seventeenth century. Throughout...  Read More >>

"Shakespeare, like Bottom in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", is a weaver. This study highlights some examples of...  Read More >>

Draws on the author's knowledge of Chekhov to depict the writer at work, in love, and in relation with such writers...  Read More >>

Explores how Shakespeare's plays were produced both in his own time and in succeeding centuries. This book explains...  Read More >>

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Offers an investigation of the complex relationship between the fraught religio-political culture of the modern...  Read More >>

Paring a novel into a two-hour film is an arduous task for even the best screenwriters and directors. This work...  Read More >>

No Fear Shakespeare: A Companion gives you the straight scoop on everything you really need to know about Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

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Deals with the fundamental subject of the practice of thinking about universals as though they were concrete things....  Read More >>

Why is Shakespeare as highly regarded now as he ever has been? This book's answer to this question counters claims...  Read More >>

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