Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A study of four plays by Tony Kushner that are most political and pertinent for our time  Read More >>

Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming, Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification...  Read More >>

Examining the relationship between Shakespeare and Italy, this collection considers how Shakespeare was inspired...  Read More >>

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An introduction to Aristophanes’ much-debated utopian comedy, its social, cultural, political, and theatrical contexts,...  Read More >>

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, this second edition...  Read More >>

Five universal stories that celebrate the strength of the human spirit, blending hope, humour and heart.  Read More >>

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The third volume in the anthology, featuring a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands...  Read More >>

The third volume in the anthology, featuring a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

Private, previously unpublished conversations between the author and one of the twentieth century's greatest dramatists...  Read More >>

This book tells a new story about Hamlet, exposing its key philosophical concerns are also significant factors in...  Read More >>

Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright he wrote dozens of short stories and poems, many...  Read More >>

This book examines U.S. drama's role in the Culture Wars through academic plays like Oleanna and God Kinda Looks...  Read More >>

Ibsen Apocalypse historicizes the twenty-first century's most audacious theater work to trace the legacies of modernism's...  Read More >>

Newest research into drama and performance from the Middle Ages and the Tudor period.  Read More >>

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1952 this book assembles what the author called ‘the basic jokes’ of theatrical burlesque....  Read More >>

First published in 1950, English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans is a detailed examination of representative...  Read More >>

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