Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

In the board game 'Othello', players must turn double-sided counters to their advantage. This doubleness is shared...  Read More >>

Explores representations of love and desire between female characters in nearly seventy plays written between 1580...  Read More >>

The Many Lives of Galileo is a Marxist study of the development of Bertolt Brecht's great play Galileo on the English...  Read More >>

A major new translation by award-winning poet and translator David Constantine that captures the lyrical liveliness...  Read More >>

Investigates the history of performances of Greek tragedy in Britain from 1660 onwards. This book assembles discussion...  Read More >>

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This anthology of four plays is the first publication in English of the work of Olivier Py (born in 1965). The volume...  Read More >>

Zwischen den österreichischen Literaten Elfriede Jelinek und Werner Schwab liegen auf den ersten Blick Welten. Trotz...  Read More >>

An international team of leading scholars explore the appropriation of Shakespeare's plays in film and performance...  Read More >>

Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light...  Read More >>

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The work and ideas of noh actor, theorist, and playwright Zeami Motokiyo (ca. 1363-1443) offer insights - from the...  Read More >>

From Alexandre Duval's Shakespeare (1804) to Anthony Burgess's """"The Muse,"""" this is an anthology of 19 fictional...  Read More >>

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Based on the author's teaching methods and experience, Poetics of the Creative Process examines and analyzes the...  Read More >>

Edward de Vere's life and letters indicate that he was the true author of the works of Shakespeare. Weaving together...  Read More >>

'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era...  Read More >>

Resulting from workshops at Shakespeare's Globe between leading critics, performance theorists and theatre practitioners...  Read More >>

Includes a scene-by-scene synopsis, production history of the play, an overview of Shakespeare's career and more....  Read More >>

New versions of Shakespeare’s history plays from director and translator Douglas Langworthy.   Read More >>

""This translation brings to modern audiences the juxtaposing carnage of the Trojan War and a love story between...  Read More >>

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* Contains original essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Venus and Adonis,...  Read More >>

Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using various resources of contemporary criticism, from performance...  Read More >>

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