Plays & playscripts books

New parts for thirty of Shakespeare's women, letting them speak their minds, written by famed stage and screen actress,...  Read More >>

Pyramid Mountain is a Modern Western Crime Thriller that takes place in and around Reno, Nevada. It begins, When...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early modern theater,...  Read More >>

In this major reassessment of his subject, Richard Rowland restores Thomas Heywood- playwright, miscellanist and...  Read More >>

In the first full-length study devoted to John Lowin, Wooding provides a comprehensive overview of the life and...  Read More >>

This edition provides the first complete, modern version of John Norden's The Surveyor's Dialogue, a text remarkable...  Read More >>

Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published...  Read More >>

Focusing on the unusual learning and schooling of women in early modern England, this study explores how and why...  Read More >>

Referencing early modern English play texts alongside contemporary records, accounts and statutes, this study offers...  Read More >>

Offering a new perspective on two major authors, Minear explores Shakespeare's and Milton's fascination with the...  Read More >>

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Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon,...  Read More >>

The guild buildings of Shakespeare’s Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings...  Read More >>

Should we assume that people who lived some time ago were quite similar to us or should we assume that they need...  Read More >>

Applying current political theory on nationhood and methods established by recent performance studies, this study...  Read More >>

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays, and the issue...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the contribution of drama to second language learning. The potential for drama to provide strong...  Read More >>

Fairy-tales reworked, funny, furious and fantastic, as tales of the marginalised. Original fairy-tales were about bravado,...  Read More >>

The tales in Aerate arise in unique and curious settings: open fields and pastures, a house full of feathers and...  Read More >>

The personal and the political collide in Tim Price’s beautiful and heartfelt re-telling of the 1984 Miners’ Strike,...  Read More >>

Table For One: A Dish Served Cold... This the third installment in the TFO Series and continues the saga of...  Read More >>

This fine selection of 20th century plays includes contributions from Robert Emmons Rogers (""The Boy Will""), Booth...  Read More >>

An epic, panoramic play about how the political fault-line has been redrawn. Premiered by the Royal Shakespeare...  Read More >>

A fantastical, theatrical adventure through the underground world of street art and the hidden patterns in our universe....  Read More >>

Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigate the provenance...  Read More >>