Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The first collection of ensemble-created works by major US theater companies.  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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This study draws on new and unprecedented research concerning the lives of Eugene O’Neill, his family, and his circle....  Read More >>

Regarding the dossier of successive editions of Iphigenia at Aulis as a symbol for the condition of modern textual...  Read More >>

Der Potsdamer Aufführung der sophokleischen »Antigone« von 1841 kommt die historische Bedeutung einer Wiedergeburt...  Read More >>

* Second edition of this highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare. * Offers...  Read More >>

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How can high school and college teachers help their students get the most out of studying Shakespeare? In this book,...  Read More >>

One way and another, nearly all of Shakespeare's countrymen and women (including the playwright himself) spent at...  Read More >>

A study, which focuses on 12 plays, including Julius Caesar , Romeo and Juliet , Othello , Macbeth , and others,...  Read More >>

Combining reality and magic, Shakespeare creates an uncanny but morally coherent world through the The Tempest's...  Read More >>

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In this study of Adrienne Kennedy, Philip C. Kolin explores the interrelationship of life and work of this African...  Read More >>

This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of contemporary critical readings of Shakespeare's three 'problem...  Read More >>

Renaissance England’s great tragedy of intellectual overreaching is as relevant and unsettling today as it was when...  Read More >>

The early modern period was an age of anatomical exploration and revelation, with new discoveries capturing the...  Read More >>

Acknowledgements Note on texts Introduction: Thinking about the body 1.  Read More >>

Michael C. Finke explodes a century of critical truisms concerning Chekhov's objective eye and what being a physician...  Read More >>

Featuring one of Shakespeare's most complex histories, this revised and repackaged edition includes an updated bibliography,...  Read More >>

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First published 1888-1891, Seilhamer's work remains the most comprehensive history of theater in America right up...  Read More >>

""One of America's most intelligent, politically committed and challenging performance artists.""--Village Voice...  Read More >>

""A significant book about the place of drama in American literature.""--Theatre Studies  Read More >>