Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

In 1897 August Strindberg, almost fifty years old, embarked on one of the great comebacks in the history of literature....  Read More >>

A revealing collection of words, memories and pictures-an autobiographical scrapbook--by an outstanding contemporary...  Read More >>

Lowell Edmunds combines two readings of the ""Oedipus at Colonus"" to arrive at a fresh way of looking at Greek...  Read More >>

This volume of The Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw focuses on film: a behind-the-scenes view of the film...  Read More >>

An account of the historical, social and political pressures of Shakespeare's England and the material conditions...  Read More >>

Bristol debates Shakespeare's cultural success and widespread notoriety, his achievement of contemporary celebrity...  Read More >>

This study reclaims a lost body of theatrical work by focusing on four labor plays of the 1930s. This work will...  Read More >>

Bristol debates Shakespeare's cultural success and widespread notoriety, his achievement of contemporary celebrity...  Read More >>

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This is one in a series of volumes aimed at both students and teachers. It provides chronologically arranged excerpts...  Read More >>

"SHAW 16 contains twenty-nine unpublished pieces by Shaw written between 1877 and 1950. The most significant is...  Read More >>

Conacher's close readings of the text and sensitive analysis of the main problems in the plays will be of benefit...  Read More >>

Die Arbeit ist die erste Darstellung der Rezeption von Oscar Wildes Komödien in Deutschland und basiert auf der...  Read More >>

Als sich 1990 der Vorhang über Heiner Müllers Berliner Inszenierung »Hamlet/Maschine« senkte, entdeckte die Kritik...  Read More >>

Presents detailed analysis of a wide range of plays by British women dramatists from the last two decades. It will...  Read More >>

Presents detailed analysis of a wide range of plays by British women dramatists from the last two decades. It will...  Read More >>

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Tennessee Williams is generally regarded as one of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century. This reference...  Read More >>

The only book to treat in detail all the plays of contemporary English playwright David Storey, this study focuses...  Read More >>

A scene-by-scene philosophical study of ""Macbeth"", this book demonstrates why Shakespeare's poetic writings still...  Read More >>

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