Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A Midsummer Night's Dream is in many ways a unique play. It is one of the few for which there is no immediate source....  Read More >>

A resurgence of interest has taken place in a biographical approach to the work of early modern poets and dramatists,...  Read More >>

This collection of fifteen essays offers a guide to the work of Tom Stoppard, including insights into the recent...  Read More >>

This 2002 volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman...  Read More >>

This essential 1997 guide to one of the theatre's most important and influential writers, offers not only a general...  Read More >>

Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. Specially-commissioned...  Read More >>

This volume addresses the work of women playwrights from the early American pioneers to contemporary feminists....  Read More >>

This collection of specially written essays offers both student and theatregoer a guide to one of the most celebrated...  Read More >>

This Companion, first published in 2000, addresses the work of women playwrights in Britain throughout the twentieth...  Read More >>

This 2004 Companion provides a full introduction to the famed pioneer of both the Elizabethan stage and modern English...  Read More >>

This lively Companion examines the wide range of films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. Leading...  Read More >>

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The accuracy and textual integrity of the well-known Pelican edition of the plays plus the brilliant teaching suggestions...  Read More >>

Read as the first epic written under Spinoza's influence, the author shows that Goethe's ""Faust's"" thematic development...  Read More >>

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Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When...  Read More >>

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing...  Read More >>

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Originally published in 1902, this appeal for further investigation and research was An attempt to establish certain...  Read More >>

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia...  Read More >>

In his great sequence of prose plays, the figure of the artist (or would-be artist) is of the greatest importance...  Read More >>