Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism still provides a contemporary analysis...  Read More >>

'Shylock' is an award-winning play about a Jewish actor who finds himself condemned by his own community for his...  Read More >>

This work provides an introductory cultural history of the relationship between psychoanalytic concepts and Shakespearean...  Read More >>

This classic work fully explains the whole range of sexual, scatological language and allusion in Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism still provides a contemporary analysis...  Read More >>

In Love With Shakespeare, written in the form of a playwright's memoir, is a humorous, irreverent and highly provocative...  Read More >>

This collection of the most significant and illuminating critical essays about the works of Wole Soyinka over the...  Read More >>

A critical anthology of avant-garde drama. It includes the full texts of 16 plays, each preceded by a historical-critical...  Read More >>

Traces Shakespeare's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. This book offers...  Read More >>

""Treating Depression with Hypnosis"" focuses on the structuring and delivering of hypnotic interventions for major...  Read More >>

This volume features coverage of 15 plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Each entry includes: an...  Read More >>

The history plays of the late 16th century are shown as neither a Shakespearean nor an Elizabethan invention, but...  Read More >>

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This text demonstrates that the theatrum repudiated by medieval clerics was not ""theatre"" as we understand the...  Read More >>

This text considers the historical similarities of the eras in which Shakespeare and Shaw wrote and then explores...  Read More >>

The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: < ul>< i>< li> Antony and Cleopatra< li> A Midsummer Night's...  Read More >>

Traces Shakespeare's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. This book offers...  Read More >>

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Why do Shakespeare's works continue to exert so strong an influence and have such lasting appeal? What do they have...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare's sexuality has always been an ambiguous concept. Keevak examines sources such as anecdotes, imitations,...  Read More >>

Sophocles' ""Electra"" tells the story of the revenge Orestes and Electra take on their mother, Clytemnestra, for...  Read More >>