Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

This introduction to the theatre also attempts to offer a meditation on the theatricality of the Incarnation. Arguing...  Read More >>

This book is the first-ever reference to the four seventeenth-century editions of William Shakespeare's collected...  Read More >>

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The publication of Jan Kott's Shakespeare Our Contemporary some twenty-five years ago had an immediate impact on...  Read More >>

Features a collection of monologues for women from the works of William Shakespeare that have been complied for...  Read More >>

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When Martin Esslin published The Theatre of the Absurd in 1961 he caught the pulse of Western drama as it burst...  Read More >>

The culmination of more than sixty years of observing and collecting superstitions, customs, cures, riddles, games,...  Read More >>

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Examines the conflict between Lope's dramatic formula (comedia) and the new polytechnic formula that in the hands...  Read More >>

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Examines the conflict between Lope's dramatic formula (comedia) and the new polytechnic formula that in the hands...  Read More >>

Philoctetes is a tragedy of surpassing human interest, portraying relationships against a background of terrible...  Read More >>

Admired by Shelley for 'its satisfying completeness', this thought-provoking and skilfully constructed play, which...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare is consistently interested in rulers, law, questions of authority and obedience. In this study, Alexander...  Read More >>

A revised edition of this 18th century comedy with an introduction in which aspects of language, staging and interpretation...  Read More >>

PLUTUS: Zeus inflicted it on me, because of his jealousy of-mankind. When I was young, I threatened him that I would...  Read More >>

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