Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Part of the ""Bristol Classical Press"" series of Spanish texts, this is Buero Vallejo's play ""El Tragaluz"". The...  Read More >>

Uncle Vania is Chekhov's best loved and perhaps his best composed play, yet this is the first book to be solely...  Read More >>

Offers an analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles' ""Trachiniae"", Aeschylus' ""Agamemnon"", and Euripides'...  Read More >>

A title in the BCP French Texts series, in French with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. This volume includes...  Read More >>

The author, who states that Latin literature gains from being viewed as performance, sees the creation of different...  Read More >>

One of the greatest comedies in French theatre history, Beaumarchais' Le Mariage de Figaro is a dynamic text of...  Read More >>

A critical edition of Racine's ""Phedre"". The introduction examines the central facets of the play's enduring capacity...  Read More >>

A critical edition of ""Le Misanthrope"". The introduction examines the interlocking levels of comedy apparent both...  Read More >>

Chekhov's penultimate play has inspired a bewildering variety of interpretations since its première at the Moscow...  Read More >>

This hilarious and irreverent whirlwind of lies, religious hypocrisy and family feuds features one of theatre's...  Read More >>

This translation of Checkov's tragi-comic play - perhaps his most popular - is being published to coincide with...  Read More >>

A title in the BCP Russian Texts series, in Russian with English notes, vocabulary and introduction. In this play,...  Read More >>

Chekhov's widely performed classic study of provincial life explores the irony of hope and the inadequacy of consolation...  Read More >>

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Uncle Vanya has been described as the least pleasant and most bitter of Chekhov's plays - yet the difficulty in...  Read More >>

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A brilliant and influential study of the god of Greek drama and the one surviving tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae, in...  Read More >>

"Agustin Gomez-Arcos is one of a ""lost"" generation of Spanish dramatists who were silenced during the Franco era....  Read More >>

Paul Muldoon's poetry has always been known for its complexity, its use of various forms, its allusions, as it opens...  Read More >>

Paul Muldoon's poetry has always been known for its complexity, its use of various forms, its allusions, as it opens...  Read More >>

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Excellent in-depth study guide on this Australian novel written by Peter Goldsworthy with background notes on the...  Read More >>

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This third volume of critical responses covers the early Victorian years, when Hamlet was acclaimed from Cincinnati...  Read More >>