Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This is a fascinating study of African postcolonial writing, written by Laurence after her early years in Africa....  Read More >>

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This book offers a critical examination of Harold Pinter's dramatic writing over four decades, from The Room (1957)...  Read More >>

This encyclopaedia-style dictionary is a comrpehensive guide to Shakespeare's literary knowledge and recent scholarship...  Read More >>

This dictionary provides an account of Shakespeare's portrayal of military life, tactics and technology.  Read More >>

This text presents literary criticism focused on Shakespeare's ""Measure for Measure"", dealing with such subjects...  Read More >>

This series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives to enbable students...  Read More >>

This book studies the major city comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton in the context of the quarrel between...  Read More >>

This text shows that the computer revolution of our time can help us revisit Shakespeare's works in their own time...  Read More >>

A practical manual on the structures devised by the world's dramatists to capture their personal vision of the world...  Read More >>

This series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives to enbable students...  Read More >>

By guiding readers through the difficulties of plot and language, this Handbook leave them free to enjoy the depth,...  Read More >>

A collection of J.M. Synge's essays, which includes many little known or fugitive pieces as well as extensive works....  Read More >>

An examination of Renaissance texts in relation to the institutions that shaped early modern culture - the printing...  Read More >>

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Highly recommended for all serious drama programs."" --Choice 8.75 6 Trade Paper 14.95 CUSA 200 Original y  Read More >>

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Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience . . . We must admire him for this.-Times...  Read More >>

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 dramatists by providing full-text or excerpted...  Read More >>

Retellings of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant ofVenice, and The Taming of the Shrew.  Read More >>

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By guiding readers through the difficulties of plot and language, this handbook leave them free to enjoy the depth,...  Read More >>

The first full-length study of the literary criticism on the works of the controversial twentieth-century German...  Read More >>

A master at dramatic dialogue, captured in real-life conversation about his work  Read More >>