Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This annual volume covers ten to 12 dramatists, providing for each play or playwright featured a range of critical...  Read More >>

One of the ""Twayne's World Authors Series"", this volume features: an interpretive study of French theatre since...  Read More >>

A Bold Stroke for a Wife is perhaps the finest example of Centlivre’s masterful plotting of comic intrigue.  Read More >>

Though first performed some 400 years ago, the plays of William Shakespeare still continue to capture the popular...  Read More >>

Diese Bibliographie erfasst alle im Gebiet des Deutschen Reichs und der Schweiz zwischen 1700 und 1799 gespielten...  Read More >>

This annotated bibliography of dramas of the 18th century covers all dramas performed and/or published between 1700...  Read More >>

The fragmentary plays of Euripides are a body of texts still regularly increasing in number and extent. They are...  Read More >>

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One of the ""Shakespearean Originals"" series which reproduces 16th- and 17th-century playtexts as closely as possible...  Read More >>

A play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. It is suitable for students...  Read More >>

Oriental perspective on Shakespearean themes, drawing on Eastern philosophical, religious and ethical traditions....  Read More >>

These critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama is an ideal companion text to Modern Canadian Plays...  Read More >>

Family and ""traditional values"" are questioned when a young man disappears. Cast of 1 man and 2 women.  Read More >>

How men communicate with each other on stage when no women are present—and what it tells us about power and gender...  Read More >>

Provides a critical account of the political ideas of one of the most influential commentators of the 20th century....  Read More >>

In this work, the author guides the reader through Beckett's cultural heritage and then moves on to examine five...  Read More >>

This volume presents a biographical and critical overview of Crother's life and career, along with synopses of her...  Read More >>

Contains concise analyses of more than 100 new books on Shakespeare published since the 1987 edition. The book has...  Read More >>

A collection of nine critical essays on the Shakespeare tragedy, arranged in chronological order of their original...  Read More >>

The editor offers a reappraisal of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy, ""Titus Andronicus"". The text puts forward...  Read More >>

The editor takes a broad look at the different meanings which have been attributed to ""King Henry V"", through...  Read More >>

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One of a series providing readable guides to the literary works most frequently studied in secondary schools. This...  Read More >>

Since its creation in 1980 by actor Stephen Rea and playwright Brian Friel, Northern Ireland's Field Day Theatre...  Read More >>