Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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 >>

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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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Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized...  Read More >>

Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized...  Read More >>

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Join the adorable Bug Friends as they play out a familiar tale. New and seasoned readers alike will find this a...  Read More >>

This book offers readers worldwide the first edition of Juan Isidro Fajardo's Índice de todas las comedias impresas...  Read More >>

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Following the critically acclaimed Beginning and Middle, End is the final play in David Eldridge’s trilogy exploring...  Read More >>

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Combines the study of early modern circuits of disease with a focus on care in the context of early modern English...  Read More >>

Provides a detailed overview of the history, concepts, and current debates at the intersection of disability theory...  Read More >>

The fourth in a series of books exploring the careers of 28 award-winning contemporary American playwrights, this...  Read More >>

Examines the comedies of Aristophanes from the perspective of the playwright as a political ‘correspondent’ rather...  Read More >>

An ""incisive...heartwarming"" (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of the powerful and universal lessons...  Read More >>

Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Signals of Being: A Play in Three Acts stages a captivating dramatic interpretation of a country...  Read More >>

Being a kid is full of things that don’t make sense, Elise. We’re born into something that started ages ago and...  Read More >>