Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

An indispensable scholarly resource offering an account of the critical history of one of Shakespeare's major tragedies....  Read More >>

This comprehensive guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets provides an overview of the main themes, features and contexts...  Read More >>

The first study to focus on how current aesthetic and methodological shifts in contemporary performance practices...  Read More >>

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 is the first study of the impact of partition on the culture of Ireland....  Read More >>

This collection contains four plays by contemporary Korean playwright Myung-Wha Kim - the first translated collection...  Read More >>

This book addresses an absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of...  Read More >>

The perfect gift for the Shakespeare fan, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is an elegant edition boasting...  Read More >>

This book addresses an absence in queer readings of Shakespeare’s work: the pregnant body. Through discussions of...  Read More >>

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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 >>

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

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

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

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Diese Bibliographie erfaßt alle im Gebiet des Deutschen Reiches und der Schweiz zwischen 1700 und 1799 gespielten...  Read More >>

A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights...  Read More >>

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Moves beyond issues of translation to consider cultural boycotts, censorship and the ways translation is harnessed...  Read More >>

Beckett and Broadcasting pioneered the study of Beckett and the media in 1976. Originally a doctoral dissertation...  Read More >>

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