Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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 >>

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

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

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

Before the Millennium is a lyrical new play from award-winning playwright, Karim Khan – charting the joys of a life-changing...  Read More >>

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The Brecht Yearbook, published by Camden House on behalf of the International Brecht Society, is the central scholarly...  Read More >>

The first major work to explore and analyse the popular 'extra-theatrical' performances which occurred in late medieval...  Read More >>

This dynamic and ambitious new work about cochlear implants, the Deaf community and cultural identity explores ideas...  Read More >>

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CDE STUDIES (GENERAL EDITOR: ANETTE PANKRATZ) The book series is dedicated to contemporary anglophone playwrights...  Read More >>

A go-to guide to help undergraduates navigate their way through university Shakespeare, examining 16 key plays....  Read More >>

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Volume 78 is 'Shakespeare's...  Read More >>