Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A funny and emotionally rich look at family, friends, and fame by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donald Margulies....  Read More >>

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During the mid-nineteenth century, Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer pursued a fifty-year career as a playwright and theater...  Read More >>

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it...  Read More >>

First published by Doubleday in 1962, Hegel on Tragedy is once again available. This unique collection of passages...  Read More >>

Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity. This book considers...  Read More >>

Anthony Sher's enthralling account of the struggle - and the triumph - of bring Primo Levi's Auschwitz memoir to...  Read More >>

Every bi-annual volume of Drama for Students features coverage of 15 plays most frequently studied in literature...  Read More >>

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Discusses the plot, background, ideas, and reception of Waiting for Godot, one of the most widely studied plays....  Read More >>

Scoping out development programs can be difficult. How do they actually work? What methods do they use? Are certain...  Read More >>

Including An Inquiry As To His Religious Faith, And His Knowledge Of The Law: With The Baconian Theory Considered....  Read More >>

Illustrated By A Series Of Documents, Treatises And Poems. With A Preface And Index.  Read More >>

Illustrated By A Series Of Documents, Treatises And Poems. With A Preface And Index.  Read More >>

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Includes accounts of the writer's work on Dostoevsky's ""Crime and Punishment"", Tolstoy's ""Strider"" and other...  Read More >>

Writing for a small troupe of men and boys who performed on an almost bare stage, William Shakespeare dramatised...  Read More >>

Richard Gilham chronicled a major period in American theatre history, witnessing the phenomena of Off-Broadway,...  Read More >>

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

A two-volume resource for the study of William Shakespeare, this critical contains more than 3,000 engaging entries,...  Read More >>

""The classic play about an aging king who leans on war hero Sir John Falstaff rather than his unreliable son and...  Read More >>

Talks about Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. This work offers a coverage of different aspects...  Read More >>

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The epic tale of Macbeth retold in graphic-novel format.  Read More >>