Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

An analysis of the anonymous comedy, The Taming of a Shrew, produced as a quarto by Peter Short in 1594, which relates...  Read More >>

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Includes essays on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth; studies on politics, language and history; and discussions...  Read More >>

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

Jameson dissects the connections between Brecht's dramas and politics.  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary casebook provides a variety of primary historical documents and commentary on The Crucible...  Read More >>

Includes extensive biographical, critical and bibliographical information for 19 major Spanish dramatists who wrote...  Read More >>

Issues addressed in each play are analyzed, such as prevailing societal attitudes, including those toward class...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare's tragedies - the plays which represent human experience in its starkest and most terrifying dimensions...  Read More >>

Originally adapted for stage, Peter Meineck's revised translation features a general introduction and introductions...  Read More >>

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume....  Read More >>

As You Like It by William Shakespeare is a compelling study of the human condition and the enduring quest for love...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's drama of the rise and reign of Richard III.  Read More >>

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

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This focused collection of essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging...  Read More >>

""With detailed notes from the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies.""--Cover.  Read More >>

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Authorship and Appropriation is a study of the cultural and economic status of playwriting in the later seventeenth...  Read More >>

FOUR FARCES  Read More >>

Originally published in 1994 by the University of Georgia Press, a study of the influence of Shakespeare on women...  Read More >>

An illustrated dictionary which offers information on all aspects of Shakespeare in his own time and on his impact...  Read More >>

Especially the English Miracle Plays, Founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story Extant Among the Unpublished Manuscripts...  Read More >>