Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A full-length stage play by Jillian Blevins. Based on the life of 1800's American actress Charlotte Cushman and...  Read More >>

Shows how Shakespeare reveals the world we inhabit neither as objectively nor subjectively given but as always bringing...  Read More >>

A ground-breaking theatrical event of two high-energy gig-theatre performances that revisit the stories of four...  Read More >>

This edition of a series of Shakespeare texts for schools contains new sections on classwork and examinations, plus...  Read More >>

Moving beyond a cisgender, heteronormative framework, this book investigates Shakespeare’s queer legacy on Emily...  Read More >>

Top Gs Like Me dives headfirst into the influence of online culture, the pull of toxic masculinity, and the search...  Read More >>

Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of...  Read More >>

Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how Shakespeare's scripts were transformed from popular drama into...  Read More >>

An introductory study of the Pseudo-Senecan Octavia, its main themes, historical context, and subsequent reception....  Read More >>

In An Ark, the first play created for mixed reality, four actors guide you through a deeply personal exploration...  Read More >>

This is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Fletcher, Massinger, and Field's Thierry and...  Read More >>

This book explores how literature, theatre and music revive the dead to explore the dynamics of grief and mourning....  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields,...  Read More >>

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>

No Mother, No Future examines how theatre portrays pregnancy loss as challenging dominant narratives linking motherhood...  Read More >>

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's farcical comedy of identical twins, mistaken identities, and slapstick mishaps in Ephesus.  Read More >>

This volume of essays examines creative and visually interesting responses to the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries...  Read More >>

The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights,...  Read More >>

Join Katie and Body on their quest traversing forgiveness, beauty and whales as they ask: what does care look like...  Read More >>

The first full-length exploration of the work of Laura Wade, providing critical and performance perspectives on...  Read More >>

The first study of the European Shakespeare Festivals Network (ESFN) during a five-year period of rising nationalism,...  Read More >>

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>