Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The work of Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, is intriguing but can also be challenging....  Read More >>

Outlines a method of story interpretation inspired by the work Joseph Campbell which begins with the premise that...  Read More >>

This Element investigates how playwrights can employ text-based strategies to facilitate audience participation...  Read More >>

This Element investigates how playwrights can employ text-based strategies to facilitate audience participation...  Read More >>

The debut play by INSPIRE graduate David Pearson, Firewing is a striking new play about connection, artistry and...  Read More >>

This collection celebrates the quadricentennial anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, examining the intersection...  Read More >>

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

""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

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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Take a seat at The Table — A Bold, Urgent Invitation to Act.  Read More >>

A new anthology of 8 plays written for young performers as part of the National Theatre Connections Festival 2026....  Read More >>

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

The first collected works from celebrated American dramatist Gina Gionfriddo, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for...  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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A darkly comic family drama about the legacies we inherit, the choices we make, and the heart-breaking compromise...  Read More >>

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