Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in a student edition...  Read More >>

A guide to all of Brecht's key plays that sets them in their historical, dramaturgical and political contexts  Read More >>

An essential, refreshingly accessible guide to Greek and Roman drama.  Read More >>

David Rush offers a guide to interpreting drama in A Student Guide to Play Analysis. Rush emphasizes the importance...  Read More >>

The portrayal of a Jewish money-lender in ""The Merchant of Venice"", who is full of bitterness and hatred, unrelenting...  Read More >>

David Rush offers a guide to interpreting drama in A Student Guide to Play Analysis. Rush emphasizes the importance...  Read More >>

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

Every student encounters the work of William Shakespeare somewhere in the course of his or her academic life. But...  Read More >>

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Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism...  Read More >>

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

This is a collection on the diverse aspects of the interaction between Shakespeare and India, a process embedded...  Read More >>

This is an edition of five Shakespeare adaptations not printed since the 17 century: Tate's Richard II, Crowne's...  Read More >>

With a focus on visual representations of beheading, dismemberment, and mutilation in medieval and early modern...  Read More >>

The great era of classical drama continues to be widely studied today. One of the most extensive works of its kind,...  Read More >>

Volume I: Overviews and the History Plays Volume II: The Comedies Volume III: The Tragedies Volume IV: The Romances...  Read More >>

No modern play in the western dramatic tradition has provoked as much controversy or generated as much diversity...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's works are constantly being translated into new contexts, a fact which demonstrates the vitality of...  Read More >>

Challenges a number of assumptions about Shakespeare and women, including the women in his family, the women who...  Read More >>

Shakespeare 101 is the ultimate guide to the great Bard. Michael LoMonico has gathered over 150 lists embracing...  Read More >>

A collection of essays that treats the reception of Shakespeare in Latin American contexts. Arranged in three sections,...  Read More >>

Explores the virtues Shakespeare made of the cultural necessities of servants and service. This book offers an overview...  Read More >>

The definitive biography, compellingly narrated , of the sensational life of Christopher Marlowe, poet, playwright,...  Read More >>

When a nation wants to reconnect with a sense of national identity, its cultural celebrations are often tinged with...  Read More >>