Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Though The Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock helped save the Abbey Theatre from near bankruptcy, The Plough...  Read More >>

Set in ancient Rome, this play offers the first statements in English of the Augustan cultural ideal. Jonson contrasts...  Read More >>

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REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's As You Like It The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis...  Read More >>

Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the tragedies of ""Hamlet"",...  Read More >>

In this play, Euripides uses the story of Heracles' murder of his wife and children to explore the contrast between...  Read More >>

An unprecedented history of the production of Brecht's plays in Britain over the last forty years. Eddershaw surveys...  Read More >>

The author was born and brought up in the Forest of Dean. This title presents his personal study of that small area...  Read More >>

In this play, Euripides uses the story of Heracles' murder of his wife and children to explore the contrast between...  Read More >>

A study of Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443), generally recognised as the greatest playwright of Japan's classical noh...  Read More >>

A descriptive analysis of post-theatrical work of the influential Polish director and performance theorist  Read More >>

This volume proposes emendations in Euripides'Heraclidae, Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba, Supplices, Electra, Heracles,...  Read More >>

Studying the relationship between tragedy and history in early modern France, this book focuses on the work of Pierre...  Read More >>

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Set in Provincetown, Cape Cod, in 1940, Kip is a character on the verge of adulthood learning about love, his sexuality...  Read More >>

This text presents the theme of cultural historicism. It examines Tudor-Stuart representations of surveillance and...  Read More >>

A descriptive analysis of post-theatrical work of the influential Polish director and performance theorist  Read More >>

Leonide Massine (1896-1979), nach Fokine und Nijinsky langjähriger Chefchoreograph und Solist der Ballets Russes,...  Read More >>

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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 168) and index.  Read More >>