Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Reading Adaptations provides an original introduction to thewidespread and extremely popular practice of stage adaptation...  Read More >>

Philosophical Shakespeare's focuses on and encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various ways since the seventeenth century. This anthology...  Read More >>

A guide to the historical detail of Shakespeare's ten history plays. This text examines medieval English history...  Read More >>

Philosophical Shakespeare's focuses on and encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and...  Read More >>

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Directs readers to plays written by authors from (or closely associated with) Spain in the twentieth century.  Read More >>

Cantor provides a close reading of 11 of Odets' plays as a whole, grounding his study within an analysis of themes...  Read More >>

This volume provides insight into the challenge posed by the repression of freedom of the press and religion as...  Read More >>

Aristophanes has enjoyed a revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides a...  Read More >>

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William Shakespeare comes alive for students with these engaging activities. A complete historical background, an...  Read More >>

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Weiss's substantial oeuvre has become a casualty of the cold war's end, the collapse of socialism, and the beginning...  Read More >>

Shakespeare: the Basics aims to demystify Shakespeare's plays for the beginning reader. It is a reference source...  Read More >>

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He finds elements of both mannerist and baroque theater in her work, sometimes both within the same play.  Read More >>

Die Studie widmet sich dem Problem der Bewegungsanalyse, ausgehend von Gesellschaftstanz und Tanztheater im 20....  Read More >>

When first performed, The Eunuch was a great success. Today, with its larger-than-life characters (particularly...  Read More >>

When first performed, The Eunuch was a great success. Today, with its larger-than-life characters (particularly...  Read More >>

A study of the early history of drama and performance in Ireland, from the 7th century through the 16th and 17th...  Read More >>

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Re-citing the available information on Christopher Marlowe, this study seeks to illuminate the preoccupations and...  Read More >>

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This volume presents a ‘control’ edition of the canonical version of Calderon’s masterpiece with an abundance of...  Read More >>