Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing more than three hundred...  Read More >>

This volume of plays and documents demonstrates for the first time the wide range of theatrical activity in which...  Read More >>

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This is a collection of seminal essays which apply the abstract theory of contemporary Shakespearean criticism to...  Read More >>

A trenchant and invigorating inquiry into how Shakespeare is reproduced today, examining how modern intercultural...  Read More >>

This is a collection of seminal essays which apply the abstract theory of contemporary Shakespearean criticism to...  Read More >>

A trenchant and invigorating inquiry into how Shakespeare is reproduced today, examining how modern intercultural...  Read More >>

In her first play, the now-classic A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry introduced the lives of ordinary African Americans...  Read More >>

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Mit Querbezügen zur Kunstwissenschaft wird die Darstellung des Königtums in Shakespeares Richard II und Henry IV...  Read More >>

This analysis of twenty published texts by David Hare employs definitions from contemporary semiotic literary theory...  Read More >>

Explores the issues facing theatrical performances. This work describes important developments in theatre from the...  Read More >>

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Die Anfänge öffentlichen deutschen Theaterbaus sind bisher nur in architekturgeschichtlichen Einzeldarstellungen...  Read More >>

A look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard...  Read More >>

Hawai'i-born playwright Edward Sakamoto has created a substantial body of work that accurately and lovingly depicts...  Read More >>

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A look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard...  Read More >>

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A comprehensive reassessment of Middleton's cultural importance, this wide-ranging study examines both the writer's...  Read More >>

Restoration Theatre and Crisis is a seminal study of the drama of the Restoration, in particular that of the Popish...  Read More >>

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A directory to the proverbs, proverbial expressions and proverbial comparisons in O'Neill's 50 dramas and numerous...  Read More >>