Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Ben Jonson and Theatre is an investigation and celebration of Jonson's plays from the point of view of the theatre...  Read More >>

In CliffsNotes on The Taming of the Shrew, you explore one of Shakespeare's most beloved, and imitated, works....  Read More >>

This volume is mainly a collection of papers presented at the 1995 Mandelieu conference in France which brought...  Read More >>

Newly revised, this edition of King Lear features an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life and world; an editor's...  Read More >>

Includes an updated bibliography, suggested references, and state and film history, a New Overview by Sylvan Barnet,...  Read More >>

This volume is mainly a collection of papers presented at the 1995 Mandelieu conference in France which brought...  Read More >>

This is the first ever English translation of Sir David Lindsay’s masterpiece of 16th-century Scottish political...  Read More >>

This book looks at four of Shakespeare's plays - As You Like It, King Lear, Pericles, and The Winter's Tale - and...  Read More >>

Expert contributors synthesize the vast body of research on the plays, poems, films, and fiction of Tennessee Williams....  Read More >>

What have we learned from the first experiments performed at the reconstructed Globe on Bankside? Written by the...  Read More >>

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The most familiar assertion of Shakespeare scholarship is that he is our contemporary. Shakespeare After Theory...  Read More >>

Focusing on England, Hungary and on some other European countries, the book explores the latent religious patterns...  Read More >>

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The period between 1585 (when Elizabeth formally committed her military support to the Dutch wars against Spain)...  Read More >>

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

Reveals the full scope of Shakespeare's plays as sacred visionary dramas, illuminating the bard's greatest works...  Read More >>

This book traces complex fantasy - of the young man's innocent sexuality in an imagined patriarchal age - and its...  Read More >>

A new edition of Henry IV, Part I with an introduction discussing the play in both performance and criticism from...  Read More >>

A new edition of Henry V. The introduction shows how Shakespeare shaped his historical material, examines critical...  Read More >>

An edition of the play with an introduction discussing it's probable occasion (the Garter Feast of 1597 at court),...  Read More >>

An edition of the work, which offers a number of new readings of difficult and disputed passages, together with...  Read More >>

This new edition of one of Shakespeare's greatest history plays offers a freshly considered text fully alert to...  Read More >>

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This volume reconsiders every detail of the text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature...  Read More >>