Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

"Aristophanes' ""Esslesiazusae"", written in the early 4th Century BC, marks a crossroads in his career. Post-dating...  Read More >>

This edition clarifies this text for the English-speaking reader. The detailed introduction sets the text in literary...  Read More >>

This text focuses on developments in dramatic theory over the last 150 years. From Aristotle's ""Poetics"" onwards...  Read More >>

Craig was often read as ""exceptional"" and highly innovative in his native Britain, thus, The Mask not only appears...  Read More >>

An assessment of a range of texts and cultural events that appropriate Shakespeare.  Read More >>

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Because of its link with stage performance, the theory of drama is of interest not only to practitioners (playwrights,...  Read More >>

Craig was often read as ""exceptional"" and highly innovative in his native Britain, thus, The Mask not only appears...  Read More >>

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Examining Marlowe's plays and his major poems, Tromly uses Renaissance mythography, a study of literary sources...  Read More >>

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This book uses the writings of sixteenth and seventeenth women to construct a feminist perspective on drama by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Throws light on the problem of what Shakespeare was doing between leaving school and appearing as an actor and playwright...  Read More >>

This book offers an original assessment of a broad range of texts and cultural events that appropriate Shakespeare....  Read More >>

The author considers current Shakespearian productions in Europe and America, in the light of his insights into...  Read More >>

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"Goldman examines the characteristic ""moments of crisis"" and the striking similarities of gesture and language...  Read More >>

Why did medieval dramatists weave so many scenes of torture into their plays? Exploring the cultural connections...  Read More >>

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This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores...  Read More >>

Goldman examines the characteristic ""moments of crisis"" and the striking similarities of gesture and language...  Read More >>

This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores...  Read More >>

This volume is part of an illustrated series focusing on Shakespearean criticism published after 1960 to provide...  Read More >>