Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

An edited text of Shakespeare's comedy. This edition includes a commentary and an introduction which discusses Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

A new edition of the play, which includes a discussion of Shakespeare's attitude to Semitism. The Introduction includes...  Read More >>

David Drake's smash hit one-man show tells the story of his call to gay pride and activism through a series of vignettes...  Read More >>

Peter Hacks - einer der erfolgreichsten DDR-Schriftsteller - hat eine Vorliebe fuer die Bearbeitung. Diese Studie...  Read More >>

Examines the representation of gender relations in Pirandello's writing, and assesses his status as an avant garde...  Read More >>

This is the central volume in Horton Foote's remarkable nine-play Orphans' Home Cycle, in which the author chronicles...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy with his longest female role. The editor reassesses its performance and...  Read More >>

Often classed as a ""problem comedy"", this play presents an aggressive, designing woman and a reluctant husband...  Read More >>

This book looks at Shakespeare as cultural phenomenon and the cassette as text -- that is, an object fixed in...  Read More >>

The New York Production of Boys' Life--which won rave reviews and a Pulitzer prize nomination--established Howard...  Read More >>

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The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: As You Like It Loves Labours Lost Measure for Measure...  Read More >>

This exceptional collection explores the mutual concerns of dramatic theater, film, and those who comment on them....  Read More >>

This exceptional collection explores the mutual concerns of dramatic theater, film, and those who comment on them....  Read More >>

Andrew Harris takes a look at the reality and myth behind the heart and soul of American drama.  Read More >>

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Providing a feminist interpretation of the plays that has been written, this work is aimed at feminists.  Read More >>

In the late 1950s, a small group of theater professionals met in New York City to establish a troupe that would...  Read More >>

Meredith Anne Skura asks what it meant to be an actor in Shakespeare's England and shows why a knowledge of actual...  Read More >>

This book shows how the painted face functions as a theatrical signal in Renaissance drama. Explaining the connection...  Read More >>

Between 1585 and 1631, the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega wrote more than forty-five plays dealing with the theme...  Read More >>

This series provides an in-depth analytical reference guide to the major writers of literature, allowing readers...  Read More >>

'Inge has presented with astounding veracity the oppressive banality of the lives of his characters: the events...  Read More >>

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