Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

An exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging, which relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre...  Read More >>

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Outstanding translation of Pushkin's most acclaimed work recounts a tale of post-Napoleonic society in which a jaded...  Read More >>

Investigates how British history plays since 1956 reflect the methods and values of New History, including Marxism,...  Read More >>

The Australian stage explored for its complex negotiations of race, gender, and post-colonialism  Read More >>

This volume provides biographical and analytical coverage of French dramatists of the period 1789-1914  Read More >>

A survey of the small supporting roles that feature in Shakespeare's plays. The author explores topics such as how...  Read More >>

This illustrated volume focused on criticisms published after 1960, providing the reader with systematic approach...  Read More >>

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This edition brings this reference work up-to-date, with more than 350 new entries on new writers, books, and extended...  Read More >>

Collection of ten monologues written for senior school Drama students. Provides suggestions for performing each...  Read More >>

Maggie Gunsberg examines the ""poetica"" and ""poesia"" of Tasso in the context of the historical and cultural climate...  Read More >>

This study argues that Romeo and Juliet, perhaps Shakespeare’s most popularly-known play, repays thorough investigation...  Read More >>

This edition emphasizes the theatrical qualities of Twelfth Night in both the introduction and the commentary. Where...  Read More >>

In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the changing fortunes of Macbeth to changes within society and the theatre...  Read More >>

In this edition of As You Like It, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing...  Read More >>

A Midsummer Night's Dream brings together aristocrats, workers, and fairies in a wood outside Athens, and from there...  Read More >>

Professor Hibbard's introduction to Hamlet explains the process by which variant texts were fused together in the...  Read More >>

When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his fiancee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of...  Read More >>

Professor Halio interprets the contradictions, inconsistencies, and complementarities of The Merchant of Venice,...  Read More >>

The Winter's Tale is notable for its tragic intensity and for its comic grace and for its poetry. This edition's...  Read More >>

Stephen Orgel's introduction examines changing attitudes to The Tempest, and reassesses the evidence behind the...  Read More >>

Jacobean Tragedy explores the tensions between the disruptive energies of sex and seventeenth century social, cultural...  Read More >>

Introducing this edition, Arthur Humphreys provides a fresh look at the play's date and its place in the Shakespeare...  Read More >>