Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Examining the depiction of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference in Shakespeare's plays, Ania Loomba considers...  Read More >>

Our notions of Shakespeare have been shaped partly by his diffuse presence in films, comics, TV, mass-market novels,...  Read More >>

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Tempests After Shakespeare shows how the 'rewriting' of Shakespeare's play serves as an interpretative grid through...  Read More >>

This text reconstructs the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised...  Read More >>

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Professor Walder's study asks how successfully Athol Fugard, the South African's dramatist's, work continues the...  Read More >>

This series aims to help students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. As well as the complete and unabridged...  Read More >>

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In 1957 Dublin's Pike Theatre--famous for discovering Behan and premiering Waiting for Godot--staged Tennessee Williams's...  Read More >>

Shakespeare is undoubtedly the most famous playwright in the English language. Every day, all over the world his...  Read More >>

""Hippolytus"" is generally acknowledged to be one of Euripides' finest tragedies. Sophie Mills considers its themes...  Read More >>

This volume provides detailed and authoritative text and detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text....  Read More >>

A major critical study of the greatest comic writer of ancient Greece, which relates Aristophanes' work to modern...  Read More >>

Aeschylus' Oresteia is a tragedy of inescapable killing within one family, such that each generation must avenge...  Read More >>

Combining several critical approaches this study develops a synthetic view of the messenger in Greek tragedy, showing...  Read More >>

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This annotated bibliography of dramas of the 18th century covers all dramas performed and/or published between 1700...  Read More >>

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Gililov, Secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Shakespeare Committee, sets out in intricate detective-novel...  Read More >>

The lively action and well-constructed plot of the ""Phormio"" make it an ideal introduction to Terence and to the...  Read More >>

""Mostellaria"" is one of Plautus' most lively plays. This edition was conceived as a first reader in Roman comedy....  Read More >>

This work covers the Shakespearean ouvre from a philosophical perspective, finding that Shakespeare's historical...  Read More >>

New Readings in American Drama, an anthology of some of the best essays that have been published in the scholarly...  Read More >>