Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

In this work, Wendi Chen delineates the varying reasons for Chinese acceptance of Shaw - both the writer and the...  Read More >>

* Provides an expansive and inter--disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. * Offers...  Read More >>

Written to complement the Globe Theatre's production of Twelfth Night , this thought provoking work takes the reader...  Read More >>

The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: < ul>< i>< li> The Comedy of Errors< li> The Merchant of Venice<...  Read More >>

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Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are...  Read More >>

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This is a text which may be applied as both textbook and supplementary reading. As a work of dramatic historical...  Read More >>

Drawing on research on prehistoric archaeology, epigraphy and art history, Charles Higham presents a clear and concise...  Read More >>

As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has an extensive range of student's notes....  Read More >>

As well as the complete and unabridged text, each play in this series has an extensive range of student's notes....  Read More >>

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This study recreates a fascinating moment when American Yiddish theatre tried to """"improve"""" itself by appropriating...  Read More >>

Uses the under-studied genre of melodrama as a critical prism for understanding Russian/Soviet history, politics...  Read More >>

This book demystifies the Bard and allows for performance of his plays in clear, fresh, and unpretentious ways....  Read More >>

Perhaps Caryl Churchill's most notorious play, Serious Money is a satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang,...  Read More >>

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This text is part of the New Mermaid series of modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of English plays. Each...  Read More >>

This book aims to show how Euripides was continually reinventing himself. A truly Protean figure, he seems to set...  Read More >>

This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the...  Read More >>

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This book offers a major reassessment of the work of Brendan Behan (1923-64), author of The quare fellow, The hostage...  Read More >>

West examines the ways Jacobean dramatists used stage space to explore the spatial transformations of early modern...  Read More >>

This Approaches volume culls from thousands of works on Hamlet those editions, anthologies, reference materials,...  Read More >>