Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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 >>

Having performed the role of Cleopatra on numerous occasions, Vanessa Redgrave delivered a lecture at the Oxford...  Read More >>

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

We may recognize similarities between comedies by Molière, Marivaux, Goldoni and Beaumarchais; but it is not fully...  Read More >>

Simon Evans and Debris Stevenson bring new life to Edmond Rostand's...  Read More >>

Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies presents Lawrence Echard's early modern introductions to the...  Read More >>

A high camp cocktail of comedy and cabaret, written & performed by Temi Wilkey, that's a perfect send up of the...  Read More >>

50 Kapitel: Die Komödie der Irrungen: Shakespeares Sitcom avant la lettre Verlorene Liebesmüh: Shakespeares Dissertation...  Read More >>

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As per William Shakespeare, 'all the world's a stage'. But what if the human soul was a stage too? What if the stage...  Read More >>

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This book is a collection of essays by playwrights, directors, devisers, scholars, and educators whose praxis involves...  Read More >>

This book explores the development of Sinhala stylistic drama from its earliest manifestations to the post-independence...  Read More >>

When pregnant Bec enters early labour, she finds herself leaning on ex-boyfriend and father of her baby Alex literally...  Read More >>

A billion years in the future, humanity is extinct. But Shakespeare remains. A machine civilization, so far advanced...  Read More >>

First published in 1952, The Universities and the Theatre contains the papers read at the Symposium on the Responsibility...  Read More >>

This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton’s legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton’s most...  Read More >>

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The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett...  Read More >>

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In his new book, Gyles Brandreth both explores - and explains - the phenomenon of Winnie-the-Pooh and tells the...  Read More >>