Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Every day at 7pm, Greg Hurst has a little treat. When the pandemic begins, treats ramp up. Gay, single, aimless,...  Read More >>

A new play from Fishamble's Gavin Kostick about a father and a daughter and the challenges of coming of age  Read More >>

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Contemporary plays by a dynamic Peruvian collective showcase the nation’s vibrant cultural and linguistic mosaic...  Read More >>

First published in 1980, each of the three playwrights discussed in this book was a radical in his own way, concerned...  Read More >>

A vibrant anthology of contemporary Peruvian drama spotlights...  Read More >>

The first practical guide to exploring Shakespeare and Brecht together with a view to expanding staging and performing...  Read More >>

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Through up-to-date essays by historians, biographers, and Shakespeare critics, this Companion offers, first, a systematic...  Read More >>

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The Problem with the Seventh Year is a bloody, unflinching drama about the fine line between being clever and being...  Read More >>

Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England shows how popular English dramatists such as William...  Read More >>

Black Sheep is a razor-sharp psalm about the county of Norfolk, tracing the dilemmas facing farming succession....  Read More >>

This volume explores the disruptive effects of war and social unrest in early modern drama, offering new examinations...  Read More >>

The Body and the Senses in Greek Tragedy is the first book to approach the corporeality of Greek drama in terms...  Read More >>

This book follows a close textual analysis approach and offers a discussion of love as portrayed in ‘Modern’ popular...  Read More >>

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics...  Read More >>

An examination of the messy, often contradictory processes of poetic production and reception. The volume offers...  Read More >>

Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference....  Read More >>

An updated stand-alone edition of Sophocles's Oedipus the King taken from Chicago's renowned translations of the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's plays are difficult, not simply because the vocabulary and style are unfamiliar, but because he went...  Read More >>

Jack Holden's striking hot new adaptation of Alan Hollinghurst's Booker Prize-winning novel about desire and the...  Read More >>

Recipes from, and inspired by, the most famous literary figure in the world, produced in collaboration with the...  Read More >>