Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This Arden edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is closely based on the 1609 Quarto. As Katherine Duncan-Jones demonstrates,...  Read More >>

In this book, a literary critic takes us back to the court performances of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays....  Read More >>

An account of Anthony Sher and Gregory Doran's experiences producing Titus Andronicus for Johannesburg's Market...  Read More >>

Freevill introduces his friend Malheureux to his mistress Franceschina in order to play a trick on him. But Franceschina...  Read More >>

This study focuses on four of Ibsen's plays and their reception in England and France in the 1890s, specifically...  Read More >>

Harold Pinter is universally described as Britain's leading dramatist. Beginning with a look at the nature of British...  Read More >>

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A thematic compilation of Brendan Behan's quotations, on everything from alcohol to literature, fame to religions,...  Read More >>

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Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing...  Read More >>

In this interdisciplinary study, Tim Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender,...  Read More >>

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This work discusses the seeming irrationality or inauthenticity of our emotional response to fiction. Using Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

This volume features coverage of 15 plays most frequently studied in literature classes. Each entry includes: an...  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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A detailed study in English of Ernst Toller's plays and their most significant productions. Particular productions...  Read More >>

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Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish...  Read More >>

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Tragic Seneca undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture...  Read More >>

Pierre de Lavirey was born in the east of France and died in Troyes. Little is known about him, but he has left...  Read More >>