Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

From their inception, ‘low culture’ comics have intersected with the ‘high culture’ of Shakespeare. This is the...  Read More >>

Explores how Shakespeare uses global wisdom literatures to encourage spiritual and moral growth and the arts of...  Read More >>

Fifty years after its original publication in 1976, this excellent analysis of the psycho-social dimensions of Shakespearean...  Read More >>

Attends to the early modern stage as a platform for the creation and interrogation of knowledge and knowledge production,...  Read More >>

What kind of a playwright comes into being when an avant-garde poet moves on to write Christian popular theatre,...  Read More >>

Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain  Read More >>

Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent,...  Read More >>

This monograph analyses the films and plays of Sicilian director Emma Dante by adopting a queer approach and focusing...  Read More >>

If ever a play had something to say about the art of statesmanship, that play is Sir Thomas More. Its origins and...  Read More >>

This book presents the first comprehensive study tracing the evolution of dramatic thought in China from its earliest...  Read More >>

Transposed into the early twentieth century, a nonentity named Shakespeare rails against poverty, mediocrity, and...  Read More >>

An instant audio classic! Sir Patrick Stewart draws upon his decades on the Shakespearean stage to bring listeners...  Read More >>

A comprehensive analysis of all Ibsen's plays, written in a clear non-academic prose, which not only takes us through...  Read More >>

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies,...  Read More >>

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Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation...  Read More >>

This book presents the first comprehensive study tracing the evolution of dramatic thought in China from its earliest...  Read More >>

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This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular...  Read More >>

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Surveys the considerable nineteenth-century American discourse on and response to the writings of the German dramatist,...  Read More >>