Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Covering major playwrights including Ibsen, Brecht and Chekhov, William Storm presents a comprehensive investigation of irony''s significance in the modern theatre.

Leading Faust scholars consider the striking modern relevance and the operatic character and structure of Goethe''s pivotal theatrical work.

This book presents illuminating comparisons of Shakespeare''s Roman plays with plays by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists including Jonson and Massinger.

Leading Faust scholars consider the striking modern relevance and the operatic character and structure of Goethe''s pivotal theatrical work.

This book presents illuminating comparisons of Shakespeare''s Roman plays with plays by Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists including Jonson and Massinger.

This accessible new translation of Sophocles'' Antigone includes an analytical introduction, comprehensive notes and an essay by director Karen Libman.

Covering major playwrights including Ibsen, Brecht and Chekhov, William Storm presents a comprehensive investigation of irony''s significance in the modern theatre.

This accessible new translation of Sophocles'' Antigone includes an analytical introduction, comprehensive notes and an essay by director Karen Libman.

When actors perform Shakespeare, what do they do with their bodies?

An approachable guide to Shakespeare on film, this book establishes the differences between stage and screen.

This introductory guide to one of Marlowe's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of screen adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.

The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley is a luridly sensual dramatic work which was highly regarded in its day, but then largely forgotten until its revival three hundred years later.

This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of contemporary critical readings of Shakespeare's three 'problem plays': All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Trolius and Cressida.

Etherege & Wycherley is the first book-length study devoted solely to these two leading comic dramatists of the early Restoration period.

In Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales, the author examines the intricate relationship between laughter, fiction, and the human condition in Chaucer's work.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's controversial comedy of the war between the sexes.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy.

In her first collection of plays, Olivier award-winning playwright and screenwriter Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's talent for writing complex female characters is on dazzling display.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's immortal love story.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated play.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's bleakest and most profound tragedy.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's dazzling comedy.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great drama of ambition, desire and guilt.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most loved comedy.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magnificent tragedy of love, jealousy and explosive racial politics.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a definitive, fresh new look at Shakespeare's most compelling villain.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's much-loved sonnets and poems.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's magical vision.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of one of Shakespeare's last plays.

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great comedy of love, folly and mistaken identity.

Dramatist, theatre practitioner, novelist, and painter, August Strindberg's diverse dramatic output embodied the modernist sensibility.

Dramatist, theatre practitioner, novelist, and painter, August Strindberg's diverse dramatic output embodied the modernist sensibility.

Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times.

Looking at European drama through an ecological lens, this book chronicles nature and the environment as primary topics in major plays from ancient to recent times.

Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this canonical playwright, examining the genius of Chekhov's writing, theatrical representation and dramatic philosophy.

Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this canonical playwright, examining the genius of Chekhov's writing, theatrical representation and dramatic philosophy.

Ibsen's plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies.

Ibsen's plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies.

Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans.

Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans.

First published in English in 1965, this book discusses the roots and development of the dumb show as a device in Elizabethan drama.

First published in English in 1965, this book discusses the roots and development of the dumb show as a device in Elizabethan drama.

First published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy.

First published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy.

The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed.

The essays in Staging the Renaissance show the theatre to be the site of a rich confluence of cultural forces, the place where social meanings are both formed and transformed.

Maria Irene Fornes is the most influential female American dramatist of the 20th century.

Maria Irene Fornes is the most influential female American dramatist of the 20th century.

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare is a window onto how today's actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare's plays.

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare is a window onto how today's actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare's plays.