Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from the time South Africa was established to post-apartheid....  Read More >>

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican...  Read More >>

This text chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance in South Africa from when the country came...  Read More >>

This volume is part of a resource that aims to enhance the user's appreciation and enjoyment of the world's great...  Read More >>

This book looks at ways teachers can build work on reading, writing, speaking and listening, around starting points...  Read More >>

This volume brings torether poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' ""Oedipus at Colonus""....  Read More >>

This collection of essays examines the ways in which writing and cinema can be studied in relation to each other....  Read More >>

This volume brings torether poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' ""Oedipus at Colonus""....  Read More >>

Did the Greeks find it amusing, irritating or threatening when they heard another Greek speaking in a different...  Read More >>

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With a strong emphasis on the conscious theatricality of the play, Shakespeare's As You Like It focuses on its significance...  Read More >>

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In this study Julie Sanders reveals the concern that the public theatre playwriting of Massinger, Ford, Shirley...  Read More >>

This is one in a series of volumes aimed at both students and teachers. It provides chronologically arranged excerpts...  Read More >>

Documents the scholarship of 10 black American women playwrights, representing the Harlem Renaissance and the period...  Read More >>

Fictionalized and dramatized 'lives' in the form of fictional biographies are currently a fashionable subject, and...  Read More >>

This volume provides a listing of all the biblical and liturgical references in each of Shakespeare's plays. Shaheen...  Read More >>

These annotated letters present the first personal glimpse of this Scottish playwright as she wrote and lived. It...  Read More >>

Utilises Zen Buddhism and Chaos theory in an examination of Beckett's plays.  Read More >>

Volume two of The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie features her correspondence with Margaret Holford Hodson,...  Read More >>

Through a discussion of critical works, including The Decay of Lying and De Profundis , Bashford demonstrates...  Read More >>

Here are translations of five plays by Korean playwright Oh T'ae-sok.  Read More >>

This study reveals how dramatists reacted to the events of the Atomic Age and the early thermonuclear era. It also...  Read More >>

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

This title studies writer and playwright August Wilson, author of the play Fences. It discusses Wilsons place in...  Read More >>