Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The dialectical principle of Hegel's theory of tragedy exposes the tragic essence of revolution: the totalized claims...  Read More >>

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The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Each of the four...  Read More >>

This is an annotated edition of Oscar Wilde's major plays.  Read More >>

A collection of five of Christopher Marlowe's (1564-1593) major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of...  Read More >>

This volume offers John Webster's two Jacobean tragedies, The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, together with...  Read More >>

Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less...  Read More >>

This tragi-comedy took as foundation the news report of the execution for witchcraft of Elizabeth Sawyer, as related...  Read More >>

A comedy set in the lively London of Ben Jonson's day, depicting the life of the merchant Kitely, surrounded by...  Read More >>

This overview of Friedrich Durrenmatt's dramatic and narrative oeuvre reveals the international importance of the...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume demonstrate how effectively different -- indeed seemingly contradictory -- theoretical...  Read More >>

Surveys the play's textual history, critical reception, intellectual background, themes, and performances.  Read More >>

This text examines the plays of Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian symbolism. In chronological sucession,...  Read More >>

""Oh, These Times"" (1772) is a satirical attack on social vices such as religious hypocrisy, superstition and slander,...  Read More >>

This text examines the plays of Aleksandr Blok, the pre-eminent poet of Russian symbolism. In chronological sucession,...  Read More >>

This book examines the politics of gender in the Henry VI plays, Richard III and King John. Draws on a range of...  Read More >>

David Mills has produced a detailed study of the city of Chester Whitsun Plays in their local, physical, social,...  Read More >>

This school edition of passages from two plays of Euripides, originally published by Macmillan, is furnished with...  Read More >>

Each annual volume of this text covers ten to twelve important dramatists. For each play or playwright featured,...  Read More >>

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This is an overview of the Bulgarian theatre, including profiles of Bulgaria's best-known playwrights (Yordan Radichkov,...  Read More >>

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