Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

One of the most admired lecturers at Columbia University looks at the year 1599 in William Shakespeare's life--one...  Read More >>

The commentary leads the reader through the text, showing how the dialogue can come alive in performance and what...  Read More >>

Marries a theoretical analysis of the issues underlying the role of the dramaturg with a thorough sense of the material...  Read More >>

< P>Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright...  Read More >>

Shows beginning and experienced actors how to use their acting skills to write successful monologues, performance...  Read More >>

Biography of Lady Gregory (1852-1932).  Read More >>

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Shakespeare Well Versed will enchant readers with clever, rhyming synopses of all of the bard's plays. James Muirden...  Read More >>

What accounts for Shakespeare's transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers...  Read More >>

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What if Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to the Continent and went on to write the works we now attribute...  Read More >>

This book combines London historiography, close reading, and recent theories of citizen subjectivity to demonstrate...  Read More >>

The king is weary. To get peace in his old age, he turns over his kingdom to his daughters. What does he get in...  Read More >>

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In About Stoppard, Jim Hunter charts the work of one of Britain's leading playwrights.  Read More >>

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Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet...  Read More >>

An overview for students of 10 major works of modern British and Irish drama. This volume concisely and conveniently...  Read More >>

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Doren deftly guides the reader though the sometime labyrinthine intricacies of Shakespeare's rich and strange language,...  Read More >>

John Campbell explores the identity and meaning of the modern """"Racine.  Read More >>

This critical companion to Tennessee Williams includes entries on all of Williams's major and minor works; places...  Read More >>

With a raging bear, the figure of Time, and a statue that turns out to be a living woman, The Winter's Tale is one...  Read More >>

How whiteness is portrayed in contemporary drama and enacted in everyday life.  Read More >>