Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Most scholarly attention on Shakespeare's vocabulary has been directed towards his enrichment of the language through...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's most conflicted character leaves a path of murder and chaos in his quest to usurp the throne of Scotland....  Read More >>

Gra. My Lord Bassanio gaue his Ring away Vnto the Iudge that beg'd it, and indeede Deseru'd it too: and then the...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623.  Read More >>

Intellectual Germany had to take refuge in the literature of other countries, in the works of Ibsen, Zola, Dalldet,...  Read More >>

OLD GOD'S TIME (MARCH 2023), SEBASTIAN BARRY'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW Whistling Psyche...  Read More >>

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

This book reveals the philosophy which enabled Shakespeare to write of such universal themes as the harmony and...  Read More >>

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Part of the ""Oxford Shakespeare"" series, this work identifies the play, ""Timon of Athens"", as a collaboration...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in China provides English language readers with a comprehensive sense of China's past and on-going encounter...  Read More >>

In his customary jargon-free style, Mr. Fallon examines sixty prominent characters from Shakespeare's plays. He...  Read More >>

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Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies explores the evolution of critical approaches to Beckett's writing....  Read More >>

This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the...  Read More >>

This powerful reinterpretation of Greek tragedy focuses on the performative - the physical and civic - dimension...  Read More >>

Camilla Stevens illuminates the link between the pervasive image of the family in the theatre and the struggle for...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

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Literate -- and political -- early modern England was a socially diverse nation to which London's theatres contributed...  Read More >>

Palgrave Advances in Samuel Beckett Studies explores the evolution of critical approaches to Beckett's writing....  Read More >>

This work provides an in-depth analysis of the literary, dramatic, intellectual and technical aspects of Gao Xingjian's...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn examines the complexities of the Soviet encounter with Shakespeare. It thus...  Read More >>