Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Reading Readings begins with a long provocative essay by Random Cloud decrying eighteenth-century Shakespeare editions....  Read More >>

What common ground in the imaginations of these three very different writers produces such paradigms of disempowerment?...  Read More >>

This collection focuses on four significant areas of Edward Bond's work: education, imagination and the child;...  Read More >>

This edition includes the Greek text with introduction and commentary in English.  Read More >>

'With the publication of Woudhuysen's Arden 3 edition, the magisterial study of the play that will energise a new...  Read More >>

This collection focuses on four significant areas of Edward Bond's work: education, imagination and the child;...  Read More >>

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

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This volume is a reference guide to her dramatic works. The book includes a brief critical biography and a chronology;...  Read More >>

The introduction to this edition of ""Troilus and Cressida"" places it in its late Elizabethan context, examines...  Read More >>

This edition of ""Julius Caesar"" provides a lively edition of one of Shakespeare's most familiar and studied plays....  Read More >>

This revised edition preserves the structure and approach of the original, including its emphasis on the early dramas...  Read More >>

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Originally adapted for the stage, Peter Meineck's revised translations achieve a level of fidelity appropriate for...  Read More >>

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An examination of Sophocles' ""Antigone"" in the context of its setting in 5th-century Athens. The authors attempt...  Read More >>

Mastering Shakespeare covers in detail the plays set in the National Curriculum through GCSE and A-Level to the...  Read More >>

This volume features coverage of 15 plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Each entry includes: an...  Read More >>

"These three plays are set in a town in Galway so blighted by rancor, ignorance, and spite that, as the local priest...  Read More >>

""[Mark] Harelik's irresistible comedy-drama [is] one of the sweetest and coziest plays imaginable.""--Houston Post...  Read More >>

This history of theatre is worldwide in scope, ranging from its ancient origins to the variety of forms which it...  Read More >>

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If such a thing as postmodern drama exists, how should we read it?  Read More >>