Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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This is Chicana playwright Cherrie Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are Shadow of a Man, winner...  Read More >>

To understand Eliot's weighty contribution to the pantheon of modernism, one must take account of his dramatic career....  Read More >>

Examines the distinctions in various Shakespeare plays between wild nature and subduing civilization and shows how...  Read More >>

This text forms an enquiry into the poetics of authenticity and authority in Sophocles' ""Electra"". The author...  Read More >>

This book's central aim is to provide new primary evidence about Jonson's reading--evidence that supplements the...  Read More >>

This is a literary study dealing with the possible influence of Roman comic drama on the surviving fragments of...  Read More >>

Hamlet has always been the most popular of Shakespeare's plays in Japan. This is a collection of critical essays...  Read More >>

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams brings together in matching format the plays of one of America’s most persistently...  Read More >>

A rich collection of plays by French and francophone women writers in English translation  Read More >>

This book shows how Sophocles' method of presenting character, his unique handling of myth, his predilection for...  Read More >>

Streitberger details the adaptation of the Revels organization to the very different courts of the various monarchs,...  Read More >>

Equally rejecting the position that Jonson was a renegade subverter of the arcana imperii and that he was a thorough-going...  Read More >>

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William Saroyan, one of the most prolific writers in America, was the first playwright to win simultaneously both...  Read More >>

This is a major study of the history of Shakespeare criticism in the modern era. Hugh Grady charts the construction...  Read More >>

This collection contains in-depth original and lively interviews with fifteen of America's leading contemporary...  Read More >>

Written from the premise that to know Shakespeare's world is to better understand his work, this book presents the...  Read More >>

The introduction tackles knotty problems: the structure and unity of the work, Seneca's literary purpose and treatment...  Read More >>

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

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This work uncovers a carefully kept 400-year-old secret. The story that the 154 autobiographical sonnets reflect,...  Read More >>