Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Delve into the core principles of dramatic technique with Lope de Vega's influential work, 'The new art of writing...  Read More >>

The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing...  Read More >>

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This Element is the first scholarly study of the theatre of Lauren Gunderson, one of the most produced US playwrights...  Read More >>

""William Shakspere and Robert Greene: the evidence"" by William Hall Chapman delves into one of the most persistent...  Read More >>

A panoramic account of a single year uncommonly crowded with seminal works of performance. Surveying American drama,...  Read More >>

This Element is the first scholarly study of the theatre of Lauren Gunderson, one of the most produced US playwrights...  Read More >>

A tender, funny, probing new play by renowned American playwright Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play)...  Read More >>

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy offers up the variegated experiences of young...  Read More >>

An accessible introduction to the Roman tragedy Hercules on Oeta with chapters on its contexts, key themes and reception....  Read More >>

This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis, the first adaptor of Hamlet...  Read More >>

Antigone, a strong and determined woman in Thebes, fights for humanity over King Creon's laws and in doing so risks...  Read More >>

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These comic interludes highlight the politics, social commentary, and brilliant comedy of Spain's classical theater...  Read More >>

This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. The author focusses...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

From the bodies rotting by the wayside in Famine fiction, Synge’s sodden corpses and Joyce’s dead, to Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout...  Read More >>

""The Druriad"" is a biting 18th-century English verse satire, penned anonymously, that offers a vivid and critical...  Read More >>

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare  Read More >>

A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous and controversial of Shakespeare's comedies.  Read More >>