Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface.  Read More >>

Nearly half a million copies in print. A.C.Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy, first published in 1904, ranks as one...  Read More >>

In this work, Rosenberg insists again and again that only the individual reader or actor can determine Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

The Theatre of Tennessee Williams presents, in matching format, the plays of one of America’s most consistently...  Read More >>

Byron's poetic reputation is currently founded on his comic epic Don Juan and its cognates ""Beppo"" and ""The Vision...  Read More >>

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For all their pride in seeing this world clearly, the thinkers and artists of the English Renaissance were also...  Read More >>

Interviews conducted during the 1970s with individuals from the worlds of theatre and film discuss successes, failures,...  Read More >>

This volume rescues from obscurity thirteen plays by early African American writers.  Read More >>

Hospitality is central to Renaissance culture. It accounts for hundreds of vast houses and enormous expenditures...  Read More >>

This stage history of ""Richard III"" covers all major English and American interpretations and some foreign-language...  Read More >>

Concentrating on performance, Thomson reviews the commercial and artistic priorities of Shakespeare and the brilliant...  Read More >>

In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where...  Read More >>

In Eugene O'Neill's Creative Struggle, Doris Alexander gives us a new kind of inside biography that begins where...  Read More >>

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The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary...  Read More >>

This critical magnum opus, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an...  Read More >>

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By the author of Yankee Dawg You Die, The Wash examines the slow and painful death of a marriage after 42 years....  Read More >>

"This biography begins with the playwright, at 30, writing ""Romeo and Juliet"" and ends with his death in Stratford...  Read More >>

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A general account of the agon, or formal debate, in Euripides, which examines interpretations of the more important...  Read More >>

Although Lorca and, to a lesser extent, Alberti, are commonly described as popular poets, little has been done to...  Read More >>

Notwithstanding the hundreds of critical sources annotated in this bibliography, the Eliot industry has neglected...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Recycled is a new, revised edition of Graham Holderness' Shakespeare's History, first published in 1985....  Read More >>