Margreta De Grazia & Stanley Wells 
New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare 

Published in 1908, this book considers the work of William Shakespeare. Providing notes and commentaries on some of his poems and plays, as well as context from English history, and analysis from his …

Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this …

I am Heathcliff! Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. The Yorkshire moors tell an epic story of love, revenge and redemption. Rescued from the Liverpool docks as a …

An insomniac is watching TV in a language he doesn”t understand; a woman is stood in a garden stretching her arms to the sky. The whole world is asleep and something extraordinary is about to …

Professor Hussey looks at the vocabulary, syntax and register of Renaissance English, following this with a more detailed analysis of particular kinds of language in the plays such as prose, verse, r …

English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing tha …

Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States extends the growing body of scholarship on Shakespeare’s appropriation by examining how the plays have been invoked during periods of ext …

The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers on a rope. Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams”s lesser-known one-act plays reveal a tantalising and …

As the bombs fall in Lebanon, a family prepares for their narcoleptic daughter”s wedding feast. There”s a main course that won”t die, a bride who cannot stay awake and the small matter of an …