Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Study of the critical attention devoted to Georg Kaiser, the German dramatist.  Read More >>

The complete edition of the works of Aphra Behn, including several new attributions.  Read More >>

An account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional success in the late eighteenth...  Read More >>

Aristophanes' comedies are famous for their comic characters and earthy humour. But they are also highly topical,...  Read More >>

An account of seven female playwrights who, against all odds, enjoyed professional success in the late eighteenth...  Read More >>

Aristophanes' comedies are famous for their comic characters and earthy humour. But they are also highly topical,...  Read More >>

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This study examines issues in politics and political theory in selected works of Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681),...  Read More >>

British comic playwright Joe Orton is known for his outrageous clownishness and his progression towards pure farce...  Read More >>

The drama about King Henry V's attempt to unite England under his rule, with notes and commentaries.  Read More >>

Pinter in Play provides a survey of diverse readings of the Harold Pinter canon organized around and presented in...  Read More >>

This play was first performed in 1610, and it has been produced ever since. This edition is based on a reconsideration...  Read More >>

Masterpiece Theatre is the latest--and funniest--round in the culture wars. No member of Modern Language Association,...  Read More >>

The masque had a brief but splendid life as the dominant mode of entertainment at the early Stuart court. This selection...  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 >>

The comparison made between Prometheus and Faust occurs so frequently in modern scholarship as to seem commonplace....  Read More >>

Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.  Read More >>

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Looking at the works of Baraka, Soyinka, Walcott and Shange and their historical trajectories in black anti-Eurocentric...  Read More >>

Focusing on rehearsals for the 1992 Mitsubishi Theater, Tokyo, production of his adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis,...  Read More >>

This Student Edition of Chekhov's last and most elusive play, a study of the effect of social change on the values...  Read More >>

All the correspondence selected for this volume - most of it hitherto unpublished - relates to Bernard Shaw's theatre...  Read More >>

This Student Edition of Willy Russell's successful folk opera, the story of two Liverpudlian brothers who grow up...  Read More >>

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