Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

A hermeneutical analysis of Wagner's six single dramas from Hollander to Parsifal.  Read More >>

American novelist, dramatist, and short story writer known for her witty, sharp dialogue. This study builds on new...  Read More >>

A study of the playwright August Wilson, emphasizing his African-American language forms, histories and identities,...  Read More >>

'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated...  Read More >>

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French-Cuban author Eduardo Manet's work is acclaimed internationally, though mainly overlooked by French and Latin...  Read More >>

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Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his...  Read More >>

Exploration of modern drama begins with Buchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped...  Read More >>

In this fascinating study, James Kiosses explores the development of imagery in the plays of Federico García Lorca....  Read More >>

A practical guide to the skills, characters and history of Commedia Dell'Arte through graded games and illustrated...  Read More >>

Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish writers, the theater, nationalism, Catholicism, and his...  Read More >>

Moving adroitly between historical context and modern critical problems, this study explores the intertwining of...  Read More >>

A vision of character, metaphor, and politics in late Shakespeare. It analyses Shakespeare's use of language and...  Read More >>

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A study of one of theatre's quietest but most radical innovators, the playwright, poet, and essayist Maurice Maeterlinck...  Read More >>

Study by one of the world's leading Strindberg scholars  Read More >>

Iphigenia in Tauris tells the story of the princess Iphigenia who was sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to expedite...  Read More >>

Cloth Edition. This book discusses fifteen plays, addressing Shakespeare's experimentation, the power and intelligence...  Read More >>

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Catherine Belsey treats Shakespeare's plays as the location of cultural history rather than as isolated works of...  Read More >>

This is a study of four plays of William Wycherley. It argues that Wycherley was not so much an attacking playwright...  Read More >>

Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries.  Read More >>

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Tawfiq al-Hakim is recognized as the undisputed creator of a literature of the theater. Among his best-known plays...  Read More >>