Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Approaches range from the...  Read More >>

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This volume, the second of two, contains the proceedings of the Shepard conference organized in Brussels, 28-30...  Read More >>

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This reference book offers a review of the research on his works, along with a history of performance.  Read More >>

This reference book is a companion to the play.  Read More >>

After the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, educated Russians began to present plays as part of a crusade to ""civilise""...  Read More >>

Through selection of primary historical documents, the work provides contexts for understanding Hamlet's melancholy,...  Read More >>

Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed gendered expectations of their time  Read More >>

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

This collection of essays is aimed at readers who are looking for new ways of thinking about Shakespeare's most...  Read More >>

He claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but Samuel Beckett proves remarkably forthcoming in this text, which...  Read More >>

""Tamburlaine the Great"" achieved, and sustained, great success on the Elizabethan stage, and it speaks to our...  Read More >>

Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama brings together, for the first time, a significant collection of critical...  Read More >>

This selection of plays by John Ford sets the earliest surviving independently-written play, ""The Lover's Melancholy"",...  Read More >>

A new edition of the play, with an introduction which explains how the very discords of style within the work can...  Read More >>

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Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a presentation of social or moral problems. In the...  Read More >>

Die Gestaltung von Bühnenraum und Bühnenbild in den 80er Jahren läßt bei führenden Theaterkünstlern eine Tendenz...  Read More >>

Die Theaterbeziehungen zwischen Polen und den deutschsprachigen Ländern haben sich seit 1945 auf unterschiedliche...  Read More >>

In this book, Albert W. Halsall presents the first complete treatment in English of Hugo's plays - a history, plot...  Read More >>

Conacher describes how Euripides provides, in specific plays, a variety of original dramatic treatments of well-known...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary collection of commentary and forty-five primary documents will enrich the reader's understanding...  Read More >>