Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

"This literary study of the last four plays that Shakespeare wrote - ""Pericles"", ""Cymbeline"", ""The Winter's...  Read More >>

Part of a series of literary commentaries that are criticisms on French literature in the English language. Each...  Read More >>

Margitic's critical edition of Pierre Corneille's Le Cid (1637) provides scholar and student with a complete, accurate...  Read More >>

Ben Jonson's contemporaries admired him above all other playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. He was...  Read More >>

Margitic's critical edition of Pierre Corneille's Le Cid (1637) provides scholar and student with a complete, accurate...  Read More >>

Coleridge was a major critic of Shakespeare and a seminal influence on modern criticism. Earlier selections of his...  Read More >>

The first scholarly collection to discuss the intersection of feminism and dramatic theory  Read More >>

Originally published in 1930, this two-volume work collates in compendium form a body of record, allusion, criticism,...  Read More >>

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This work establishes a concept of anxiety reduction which is applied to a discussion of the literature on comedy...  Read More >>

Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition...  Read More >>

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Demastes, in his interesting study of the work of David Rabe, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Charles Fuller, Beth Henley,...  Read More >>

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This study succinctly views some works of nine black women playwrights, who flourished between 1916 and 1935, and...  Read More >>

A guide for general readers or scholars interested in the life and work of Gibran. Explores the fascinating world...  Read More >>

After seven years on a chain gang, Herald Loomis returns to Pittsburgh in search of his wife.  Read More >>

An examination of dramatic language in the comedies of Etherege, Wycherley and Congreve, placing the concept of...  Read More >>

A unique book of criticism that brings both theatre and film studies within a single theoretical framework  Read More >>

It is not widely enough appreciated that in his late plays Tennessee Williams had become a largely experimental...  Read More >>

The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural...  Read More >>

Certain works of Romantic drama—Prometheus Unbound, Cain, The Cenci—have received a good deal of critical attention,...  Read More >>

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One of the greatest literary critics of our time here provides a remarkable introduction to the genius of William...  Read More >>