Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The Roman Stage (1964) gives a connected account of the drama of ancient Rome in its historical setting. Using original...  Read More >>

An exploration of the intersection of male-male sexual activities and subcultures with Italian humanism and university...  Read More >>

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing...  Read More >>

No description has been provided, leaving the intricate details, rich characters, and evocative settings entirely...  Read More >>

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

Tragedy and comedy were part of diverse discourses in the late Republican and Imperial Roman Empire. They were not...  Read More >>

The first ever stage adaptation of Le Carre's breakthrough novel about Cold War spies, re-imagined by award-winning...  Read More >>

In Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, 16 years pass between the end of Act III and the beginning of Act IV. Madonna...  Read More >>

In a world scarred by conflict, where innocence is too often lost to the fires of war, one man's impossible oath...  Read More >>

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The Shakespeare Handbooks provide a helpful, straightforward guide to the work of the world's most celebrated dramatist....  Read More >>

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Award-winning British playwright, composer and screenwriter Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage...  Read More >>

A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays between 1560-1670 that were performed in private...  Read More >>

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a...  Read More >>

What if the greatest literary mystery in history was waiting in the dark for 400 years? Tom Ashford is an ordinary...  Read More >>

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A new Goes Wrong from Mischief theatre: the Cornley Amateur Drama Society are back with tidings of chaos and joy,...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of gender performance in East and Southeast Asian Shakespeare productions, this book...  Read More >>

For this second edition of The Tempest - one of Shakespeare's most elusive and suggestive plays - David Lindley...  Read More >>

Dublin Gothic follows three generations of residents in one Dublin house across a century of social upheaval.  Read More >>

""We are such stuff as dreams are made on...""The year is 1613, and England's foremost playwright is committed to...  Read More >>

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