Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The scene-by-scene commentary considers The Winter's Tale in isolation, but prologue, epilogue and appendix place...  Read More >>

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The main argument in this book is that Shakespeare's work is of such intense vitality that it is always modern....  Read More >>

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In this study of Shakespeare's ten early comedies, from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night , the concept of a...  Read More >>

Providing a detailed and rigorous analysis of Richard III, this Commentary reveals every nuance of meaning whilst...  Read More >>

On her death, Professor Ellis-Fermor left behind some uncollected essays and part of a book on Shakespeare the Dramatist....  Read More >>

This volume explores the function of verse in drama and the developing way in which Shakespeare controlled the rhetorical...  Read More >>

This volume gives as complete an account as possible of the Shakespearian experience, particularly in terms of one...  Read More >>

The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare...  Read More >>

The Shakespeare Claimants is a critical survey of the great controversy that has raged over the authorship of the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Early Tragedies contains studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Richard...  Read More >>

In the seven plays on which the book concentrates, Terence Hawkes finds Shakespeare investigating the operation...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's God investigates whether a religious interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedies is possible. The study...  Read More >>

An invaluable introduction to Shakespeare, this book places Shakespeare's work and criticism against the background...  Read More >>

This book discovers what the sources to Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies really were and considers the dramatic...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage shows that the drama of Elizabethan and Jacobean England is deeply indebted to the...  Read More >>

The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more...  Read More >>

What is the relation between the language being heard and the picture being exhibited on the stage ? Typically there...  Read More >>

Critiquing the critics, and examining the vocabulary of twentieth century criticism of the Shakespearean tragedies,...  Read More >>

First published in 1980. At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits...  Read More >>

In this study, Shakespeare's own life story and the development of English theatrical history are placed in the...  Read More >>

Twenty-seven soliloquies are examined in this work, illustrating how the spectator or reader is led to the soliloquy...  Read More >>