Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A fascinating study into the world of translation and Shakespeare from the award-winning translator Daniel Hahn...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

Volume 53 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature,...  Read More >>

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval...  Read More >>

A study of the fragments of Old Comedy, arguing that these fragments greatly enlarge our understanding of the history...  Read More >>

A new electric play, NICE THINGS explores the relationship of a gay couple, in the midst of their comfortable years,...  Read More >>

Offering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare’s Twelfth...  Read More >>

This open access book reframes performance and pedagogy through their shared ‘objects’ and lays the foundation for...  Read More >>

This is a wide-ranging account of new writing in British theatre during the 2010s, written in a boldly experimental...  Read More >>

This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary...  Read More >>

Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

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By tracing Shakespearean threads throughout Nabokov's intricate narrative structure, this study offers new insights...  Read More >>

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

This critical play anthology brings together twenty-three plays by seventeen playwrights from the Frontera/Borderlands...  Read More >>

In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to...  Read More >>

This critical play anthology brings together twenty-three plays by seventeen playwrights from the Frontera/Borderlands...  Read More >>

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through...  Read More >>

Open a new portal into Shakespeare’s words—and his Renaissance life—with math and numbers as your key “Highly...  Read More >>

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A fascinating study into the world of translation and Shakespeare from the award-winning translator Daniel Hahn...  Read More >>

An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare's plays and our world today. This compelling collection...  Read More >>

The author of short stories, children's literature, philosophical essays, plays, and The Picture of Dorian Gray,...  Read More >>