Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It cover...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's epic retelling of the Wars of the Roses. With an expert introduct...

Best mates Leanne and Kelly have lived in Southend-on-Sea their whole lives. Larger-than-life Leanne is happy staying put, but Kelly secretly dream...

Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry is a verbatim reconstruction of the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry. Using only the words spoken ...

Sadie has a one-night stand with the new office temp, Joao, but it develops into something much more serious when Joao reveals hes in love with her...

She cared for him, she understood him And now shes gone. Two new plays from acclaimed rapper and playwright Testament (Black Men Walking). Orpheu...

In 2014 local historian Catherine Corless made a discovery of baby bones and skeletons in the grounds of a mother and baby home in Tuam, County Gal...

Nominated for the 2022 Olivier Award for Best New Play Set in Londons Soho in the 1980s, Cruise tells the story of what should have been Michael ...

Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsio...

As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first aut...

As a figurehead for the literary humanities, and a dramatist whose plays feature fairies, ghosts, and spirits, Shakespeare may not be the first aut...

So, when you have the time and the space, the thoughts start to fill it, you know? Unless you fill it yourself. With a little burn mout. Or a littl...

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting, and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, S...

Tell me what you're gonna do, tell me all these things you're gonna do. That sounds like a story worth spoiling. Its Liverpool, 1987. The AIDS epi...

Can you ever really trust a machine? It is the near future. A couple are struggling to conceive, but fortunately their company has the perfect ...

I can't forget her...sometimes, thinking about everything I have to live up to, trying to be this new person, its too much. The only way I can make...

Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and electability... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community...

Im really looking forward to robbing this bank! Mischief's smash-and-grab hit The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is a fast, fabulous comedy caper and...

This isn't the story of Icarus and Daedalus. It's Yasmin and Jack. And we won't fly too close to the sun. We'll fly through the f***er. Yasmin is ...

...the history of this pub, the possibilities of what once could have happened in this room in which were now gathered Well. The possibilities. ...