Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This comprehensive and penetrating study shows how George Bernard Shaws complex, Janus-faced play connects unscrupulous...  Read More >>

This play written in the early 1600s is an ironic comedy which offers contrast and comparison with Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

A book about Aristophanes in which Russo examines the plays as libretti for actors and singers rather than as mere...  Read More >>

This work explores four plays by Aeschylus, Euripides, Machiavelli and Shakespeare. Emphasising the context in which...  Read More >>

This volume contains a comprehensive checklist of the work of Michael Frayn; a detailed performance history of each...  Read More >>

This work sets out to depose the sacred icon of the ""eternal bard"" and argue for a Shakespeare who meditates and...  Read More >>

This is a beautifully designed original classic edition of William Shakespeare’s tragedy that is considered one...  Read More >>

Discusses how meaning is generated in Shakespearean drama and the kinds of approaches that might lead to a fuller...  Read More >>

Examines performance art in the 1980s and new modes of political art in a media-saturated culture  Read More >>

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

This text traces the changing theatrical and cultural identity of the History plays in the context of postwar social...  Read More >>

In a field being transformed by technology, Syd Field shows you what works and why and how to find new ways to create...  Read More >>

First Published in 1994.  Learning that David Hare has written sixteen stage plays, eight collaborations, and eleven...  Read More >>

A biographically based study of George Bernard Shaw and his milieu, this book offers a non-laudatory reading of...  Read More >>

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Literatur und Theater im Wilhelminischen Zeitalter"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

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Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Das Geheimnis der Oberfläche"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Attempts to tackle the question of how to perform the role of women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. This...  Read More >>

A biographically based study of George Bernard Shaw and his milieu, this book offers a non-laudatory reading of...  Read More >>

Attempts to tackle the question of how to perform the role of women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. This...  Read More >>

The Everyman Complete Shakespeare will publish the History plays in two volumes. The text of the plays is accompainied...  Read More >>

This book studies the close connections between politics, culture, art, and philosophy in seventeenth-century Europe....  Read More >>

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REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's Macbeth The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis of Macbeth...  Read More >>