Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights

In this first introduction to Plautus Trinummus, students and non-specialists alike are guided through the themes, context, and enduring humor of t...

The Jesuits were a major source of European information on Japan from the late 16th to early 17th century. Not only were they active missionaries b...

What distinguishes modern tragedy from other forms of drama? How does it relate to contemporary political and social conditions? To what ends have ...

A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience, usually guided by a sagacious, knowledgeable, and intuitive educator. Library Journ...

Othello famously supplicates, 'Speak of me as I am', pleading for the Venetians to 'nothing extenuate', leave out, or make thin (5.2.352). Othello'...

For introductory courses in Literature. This portable version of Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing has been up...

Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qual...

Although Renaissance scholars generally agree that Della Porta was the finest comic playwright of his generation in Italy, no detailed analysis of ...

Translated into English rhyming verse, with introductions, by Lacy Lockert, the four plays included in this volume are Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridat...

This compelling argument for the link between Calvinism in English religious life and the rise of tragedy on the Elizabethan stage draws on a varie...

On a Japanese beach, teenage sisters Hanako and Reiko are caught up in a storm. Reiko survives while Hanako is lost to the sea. Their mother, howev...

An updated version of The Merchant of Venice that speaks to our contemporary reckoning with racism and injustice.    Elise Thorons translation of S...

This is the first comprehensive study of the language program of the prominent Ukrainian writer and ideologue Pantelejmon Kuli (1819-1897) whose tr...

From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwri...

Situated on the intersection of comparative literary criticism, political history and theory, and cultural analysis, Terror and Pity: Aleksandr Sum...

This book paints a vivid portrait of Anton Chekhov - a Russian writer whose elusive personality and richly detailed plays have left an indelible im...

Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about human decision-making to analy...

The orchards white, all white. You havent forgotten, have you, Lyuba? The avenue lined with trees, unfurling like a slender ribbon. And on moonlit ...

Theatres world-wide embrace Chekhov's handful of plays with a fervour second only to Shakespeare's. Whatever their native language or culture, audi...