Literary studies: plays and playwrights

King Lear (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun!

Inherit the Wind (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Jerome Lawrence Making the reading experience fun!

The Importance of Being Earnest (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Oscar Wilde Making the reading experience fun!

As You Like It (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun!

Antony and Cleopatra (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun!

Romeo and Juliet SparkNotes Literature Guide by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun!

Othello SparkNotes Literature Guide by William ShakespeareMaking the reading experience fun!

A Midsummer Nights Dream SparkNotes Literature Guide by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun!

Macbeth SparkNotes Literature Guide by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun!

Julius Caesar SparkNotes Literature Guide by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun!

Hamlet SparkNotes Literature Guide by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun!

Death of a Salesman SparkNotes Literature Guide by Arthur Miller Making the reading experience fun!

The Crucible SparkNotes Literature Guide by Arthur Miller Making the reading experience fun!

When James Matthew Barrie died, in 1937, his funeral was an occasion for national mourning.

The Genius and the Goddess, based on Jeffrey Meyers' long friendship with Arthur Miller and extensive archival research from Washington to Los Angeles, is a portrait of a marriage.

The Living Room.

Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights a mixture of established and current writers National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.

Based on the motion picture Humpday (written & directed in 2009 by Lynn Shelton), Straight is a razor-sharp new comedy from acclaimed writer D.

If there's a God, which at the moment I DOUBT, I want you to curse him.

Pornography looks at the events of the first week of July 2005 (the G8 summit, Live 8, the announcement of the 2012 Olympics and the 7/7 bombings) through the perspectives of eight anonymous individuals, including a terrorist.

He wants me to fuck about with paper clips in some office with a smile on my face, fuck him .

Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emerging theatre artists with the tools, skills and a shared language to analyze play scripts, communicate about them, and collaborate with others on stage productions.

Set between 1860 and 1880, four deserters bring the body of a dead soldier back to his home town, a mining community in the grip of a coal strike and cut off by snow.

A Piece of My Mind "e;transforms a self-confessed case of writer's block into a continuously inventive and thought-provoking comedy"e; (Charles Spencer, London Daily News)"e;The portrait of a marriage and his strained relationship with his teenage children all seem to come straight from the heart.

In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into 'Joan Dark', a member of the 'Black Straw Hats' (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago.

Ever since Peter Pan flew in through Wendy Darling's nursery window and took her off to Never Land, Barrie's classic adventure story has thrilled and delighted generations of theatre-goers.

An introductory critical study for first year undergraduates which bridges the gap between A Level and university study.

This major new edition of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy of love argues that that play is ultimately Juliet's.

The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy.

King Edward III is increasingly thought to have been written in significant part by Shakespeare.

A Memory of Water was Stephenson's first play, opening in London in 1996, and was awarded the prestigious Olivier Award for Best Comedy.

A Memory of Water was Stephenson's first play, opening in London in 1996, and was awarded the prestigious Olivier Award for Best Comedy.

Born within a year of both Shaw and Wilde, Pinero was one of the most popular - and prolific - playwrights of his age.

A student edition of Marston's classic playThe Malcontent is a tragicomedy deriving from the tradition of the revenge play.

John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and dramatist, is most widely known as the author of The Forsyte Saga, but recent productions testify to the power that his plays still exert over modern audiences and the strength and relevance of the issues he raise

In Strife, Galsworthy deals with industrial relations; in Justice, with prison life - it was one of the few plays to effect real reforms.

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'.

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lorca's 'rural trilogy'.

In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous.

Two Gentlemen of Verona is commonly agreed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, and probably his first play.

Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities.

Adultery, intrigue, murder, revenge: the densely-packed plot of The White Devil touches on topics that are representative of the atmosphere of Jacobean tragedy.

On 19 April 1621, a woman named Elizabeth Sawyer was hanged at Tyburn.

A Jovial Crew, or the Merry Beggars, is a comedy about four noble lovers who join the beggar community for a pastoral life of dance and song.

The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock.

The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre.

Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism.

"e;A significant and substantive edition, in that nothing has been taken for granted, everything has been opened to reconsideration.

Richard III is one of the great Shakespearean characters and roles.

This richly annotated edition takes a fresh look at the first part of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, showing how it relates to the other plays in the sequence.