Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

One of a series concerning the major plays of leading 20th-century playwrights. This guide introduces, explores...  Read More >>

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Is your enjoyment of Brian Friel's work hampered by a lack of Irish historical knowledge? A Faber Critical Guide...  Read More >>

Divided in two acts, the play covers quite a gamut in religious theology.  Read More >>

The text of the play is enhanced by an introduction which covers the play from a number of angles, including those...  Read More >>

This innovative edition offers modernized texts not only of the 1599 quarto but also of the short, or 'bad', quarto...  Read More >>

Surveys the textual, historical, cultural, thematic, and critical background of The Tempest and reviews its performance...  Read More >>

Explores the actor as subversive celebrant in premodern popular theatre, with special attention to Aristophanes'...  Read More >>

The Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare series specifically focuses on preparing students for their exams. Teachers find...  Read More >>

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

This study of the prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style....  Read More >>

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and...  Read More >>

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The Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare series specifically focuses on preparing students for their exams. Teachers find...  Read More >>

The Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare series specifically focuses on preparing students for their exams. Teachers find...  Read More >>

Studying several works including, """"The Iceman Cometh"""" and """"Long Day's Journey"""", this work examines the...  Read More >>

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Exploring Beckett's relationship with the visual arts and its influence on his creative expression  Read More >>

Ebrahim Hussein is the best known Swahili playwright, and Tanzania's most complex literary personality. Known first...  Read More >>

Argues that language has the capacity to function as a mode of perception in Shakespeare's work, a proposition it...  Read More >>

Presents a collection of works by some of the brightest stars in contemporary American theater. This book features...  Read More >>

Oedipus, the banished king of Greek mythology who killed his father and married his mother, is the subject of Sophocles'...  Read More >>

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