Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This book probes into the aesthetics of representation of violence in the plays of Edward Bond, reflecting often...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Minds: The Iago Sessions takes readers inside the therapy room with one of literature's most infamous...  Read More >>

What if Hamlet could speak to a psychiatrist? In this imaginative and introspective exploration, Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Sir Sidney Lee (1859–1926) was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. This biography, first published...  Read More >>

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Drawing upon his five decades of experience in the legal profession and an abiding love of Shakespeare, United States...  Read More >>

Drawing upon his five decades of experience in the legal profession and an abiding love of Shakespeare, United States...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Volume 75 is 'Othello'. The...  Read More >>

In doing so he breathes new life into the original poems and opens them up for a modern readership, demystifying...  Read More >>

Drawing on qualitative research exploring the techniques of playwriting instructors, this book outlines signature...  Read More >>

Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's best-known writers. His work has been praised by figures from G. Bernard Shaw to...  Read More >>

In the aftermath of loss, two siblings come together to share their story of risk, reward, rivalry, and destiny....  Read More >>

Discover how the image of the mummy evolved from comic and romantic stories to the terrifying, wandering monsters...  Read More >>

Inspired by true events in Black British history, LIBERATION is a powerful new play from Ntombizodwa Nyoni tracing...  Read More >>

Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit den vielfältigen Geistererscheinungen in Andreas Gryphius' Trauerspielen...  Read More >>

""You are not just the reader. You are the knife."" The Gospel of Knives is not a retelling of Julius Caesar. It...  Read More >>

Static is a lyrical, searching play by Jimmy McAleavey about isolation and the painful contradictions that surface...  Read More >>

A provocative but serious reflection on Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, showing how the finest plays of Shakespeare...  Read More >>

A surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state....  Read More >>

Explores how radio dramas construct narrative through sound, music, language, and voice.  Read More >>

A play about Black pride and defiance of systemic racism. Juan de Mérida, an Afro-Spanish soldier, aspires to social...  Read More >>

Wholeness and its concomitant sense of harmony, rather than a natural given, is a construct that was assembled and...  Read More >>

The book discusses the demarcation of secular and sacred territory in early modern English drama. It focuses primarily...  Read More >>

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