Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Considers the ways in which Irish drama has become regional and international in scope, and the ways in which theatrical...  Read More >>

Half a Century of Japanese Theater is a series of translated Japanese plays that begins from the contemporary theater...  Read More >>

In ""Herakles"", Euripides reveals the brutal underpinnings of our social arrangements. The play enacts a contemporary...  Read More >>

The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul,...  Read More >>

The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul,...  Read More >>

"Offering a range of plays from ancient Greece, this eighth edition contains twenty-eight works including a ""Commedia...  Read More >>

A study of the parallels between the humanistic principles of Renaissance architecture and the design of literary...  Read More >>

A rereading of the late-medieval Spanish play, ""Celestina"". It offers an interpretation of the characters' actions...  Read More >>

Considers the different ways in which Irish drama has become regional and international in scope, and the ways in...  Read More >>

This annotated bibliography of dramas of the 18th century covers all dramas performed and/or published between 1700...  Read More >>

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Maps make the world visible, but they also obscure, distort, idealize. This wide-ranging study traces the impact...  Read More >>

This work examines how the dramatic works of the 1990s have shaped the New British Theatre movement. The playwrights...  Read More >>

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""This translation takes a deep dive into the language of Shakespeare and updates passages that are archaic and...  Read More >>

A team of eminent scholars have prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems.  Read More >>

Another selection of the dramatic work of Ben Jonson, this edition features the plays ""Poetaster"", ""Sejanus"",...  Read More >>

This work explores Dr Johnson's relationships with six remarkable and successful female authors: Elizabeth Carter;...  Read More >>

In response to the resonance of his work as an actor, stage director and playwright in the theatre worldwide, academics...  Read More >>

Examination of eighteenth-century British theatre as a register for the anxieties of a culture in ascendancy  Read More >>

Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing more than three hundred...  Read More >>

The creation of the new Globe Theatre in London has heightened interest in Shakespeare performance studies in recent...  Read More >>

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This book takes Shakespeare's plays as a site for studying the specter of interracial sex-of a ""jungle fever""-in...  Read More >>