Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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 >>

""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 >>

Private View delves into intimacy, power, and identity to capture the beauty, intensity, and messiness of queer...  Read More >>

How Shakespeare meticulously crafted every part of Twelfth Night and Macbeth to convey a sage message for humanity...  Read More >>

Der Krieg eines afrikanischen Prinzen gegen Rom.  Read More >>

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A meticulously compiled volume on 41 Indian English plays by 33 Indian playwrights from the ancient classical Sanskrit...  Read More >>

Shakespeares play about a shipwrecked Duke who learns to command the spirits.  Read More >>

An Instinct is a queer horror/thriller about a cabin, a window and, most importantly, an axe.  Read More >>

Dostoievski estuvo a cinco minutos de morir. Y en ese abismo nació su obra. Condenado a muerte y salvado en el...  Read More >>

The very first book-length study of theatre censorship in France between the end of the Ancien Régime and the Restoration....  Read More >>

Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica offers a comprehensive reading of a Latin epic from the...  Read More >>

The book examines the distinction between revision and rewriting in Early New English literature, analysing over...  Read More >>

Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within...  Read More >>

Tracing the evolution of the figure of the writer-cum-bureaucrat from the Victorian Irish Civil Service through...  Read More >>

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Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within...  Read More >>