Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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

An examination of the controversial plays of British Theatre in the 1990s.  Read More >>

This text is a one-stop reference to Shakespeare's world - his biography, literary criticism, plot summaries and...  Read More >>

From the end of Victorianism to the present day, Michael Taylor chronicles the twentieth century's engagement with...  Read More >>

One of the founders of German national literature, Friedrich A. Schiller (1759-1805) was that country's most important...  Read More >>

Provides students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each...  Read More >>

This study is a work of detection and reappraisal. Each tragedy is considered both as a text and as a play to experience...  Read More >>

A study of the life of Augusto Boal, a man who brought together the worlds of politics and art in his work. He has...  Read More >>

Hamlet and the Baker's Son is the autobiography of Augusto Boal, inventor of the internationally renowned Forum...  Read More >>

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This six-volume anthology documents the history of women's drama throughout the eighteenth century, starting with...  Read More >>

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An analysis of the curiously ambiguous relationship between George Bernard Shaw and all things French. While Shaw...  Read More >>

Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished material, the work illuminates the complex fabric of Shaw's...  Read More >>

This volume gathers 16 papers originally written for the occasion of the 49th Colston Symposium, held in Bristol...  Read More >>

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

Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts focuses on both the texts of Shakespeare's plays, and the many contexts in which...  Read More >>

First published in 1942, Hesketh Pearson's much lauded biography has been hailed as the standard work on George...  Read More >>

From the end of Victorianism to the present day, Michael Taylor chronicles the twentieth century's engagement with...  Read More >>

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Euripides' ""Bakkhai"" is the staple of the canon of Greek tragedy, as its structure and thematics offer exemplary...  Read More >>

I am the past that feeds upon the present. I am the darkness that daylight denies. I am the sins that you must inherit--...  Read More >>

Every bi-annual volume of Drama for Students features coverage of 15 plays most frequently studied in literature...  Read More >>

This second volume of Edward Bond's notebooks explores the meeting point between politics and the art of the writer....  Read More >>

Ensler tells the story of a young American writer/crusader and a wealthy Park Avenue psychiatrist's encounter with...  Read More >>