Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Set during the civil wars of 19th-century Yorubaland, Crown of Blood is a powerful retelling of the classic Macbeth....  Read More >>

How can anyone doubt that the world's greatest playwright wrote the plays attributed to him? William Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

In an era of religious fanaticism, this book addresses the issue by showing the many ways in which several Mid 20th...  Read More >>

Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature  Read More >>

Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britain’s most important play-wrights and her four-decade...  Read More >>

In an era of religious fanaticism, this book addresses the issue by showing the many ways in which several Mid 20th...  Read More >>

Poetry, grime and movement unite in Debris Stevenson’s explosive new play about learning to fall, fail and find...  Read More >>

This book offers a compelling examination of how violence reverberates through Renaissance drama and Early Modern...  Read More >>

Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare’s theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural...  Read More >>

Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britain’s most important play-wrights and her four-decade...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's time and ours each engage intensely with Troy. What both periods share is a view that the matter of...  Read More >>

Reads gaslighting as a term, concept, and form of abuse fundamentally tied to the literature and culture of the...  Read More >>

It's 2023 and Oberon's a sore loser... Take Midsummer Night's Dream, put it in a contemporary Percy Jackson-type...  Read More >>

Examining historical play performances and texts, Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage demonstrates that seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Modern Tragedy and the End of Worlds: Lillo, Leopardi, Ibsen shows how George Lillo, Giacomo Leopardi, and Henrik...  Read More >>

Hace siete mil años, los pueblos de América aprendieron a sembrar juntos el maíz, el frijol y la calabaza. El maíz...  Read More >>

Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who...  Read More >>

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This book explores how Shakespeare’s original audience might have responded to his scenes of violence and, in the...  Read More >>

I Do is a site-specific jigsaw puzzle through 6 hotel rooms just before the deed is done…  Read More >>

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers' and audiences'...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy (1928) is an attempt to cover the whole field of Greek tragedy. It provides facts and importantly...  Read More >>

Euripides and Shaw (1921) looks at Bernard Shaw and English Drama as great stylistic changes were sweeping the English...  Read More >>