Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

'James Anthony has done something I would have confidently stated to be impossible. He has "translated" Shakespeare’s sonnets and he has done so wi...

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. Willy Loman is ...

Written in French and first performed at the Théâtre du Bablyone in Paris, in 1953, En attendant Godot was subsequently translated by Samuel Becket...

Shakespeare's heartbreaking tale of forbidden love, brought to life in a new production co-directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh. This versi...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘We are such stuffAs dreams are made on; and our littl...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERLet Dame Judi Dench take you behind the scenes of a life loving the Bard – as she shares her story with, and endu...

SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? 'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A...

NOW IN COLOR! Read Macbeth in graphic-novel form—with NO FEAR! Based on the No Fear Shakespeare modern translations, this dynamic graphic novel—no...

Exam Board: AQA A, AQA B, Edexcel, CCEALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: English literatureFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Enable stu...

The Sonnets explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and, for many, th...

'The Mona Lisa of literature' T. S. EliotIn Shakespeare's verbally dazzling and eternally enigmatic exploration of conscience, madness and the nat...

'This is tragedy naked, godless and unredeemed' Kenneth TynanAn embittered Roman general returns from war, having captured the Queen of the Goths a...

Shortlisted for Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards 2023 Finalist for Most Promising New Playwright at the Offies Awards 2024 Look, gang, what w...

The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature tracks an important shift in early modern conceptions of selfhood, arguing that the period hosted t...

This book presents an important re-theorisation of gender and anti-Semitism in medieval biblical drama. It charts conflicts staged between dramatic...

A unique anthology bringing together stories of queer life from international playwrights, these seven plays showcase the dazzling multiplicity of ...

You didnt come for a weekend in Scarborough to watch Homes Under The Hammer. After all those extra shifts, all Lorna wants is a night out on the t...