Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Great Books for Good Men: Reflections on Literature and Manhood

Great Books for Good Men: Reflections on Literature...

Author: Joseph Pearce
ISBN: 9781621647409
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Originally commissioned by Exodus 90, the pioneering men's app, these brief but stirring reflections by acclaimed...  Read More >>

Positive Stories for Negative Times, Season Four: Bold New Plays Co-Created by Young People and World-Class Artists

Positive Stories for Negative Times, Season Four: Bold...

Author: Wonder Fools ,  Ella Hickson
ISBN: 9781350555198
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Six exciting new plays by top UK playwrights like Travis Albanza and Ella Hickson, written specifically for and...  Read More >>

Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare: Hospitality and Hostility in the Plays

Receiving the Stranger in Shakespeare: Hospitality and...

Author: Joan Fitzpatrick
ISBN: 9780367623340
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre

The Experience of Colour in Lorca's Theatre

Author: Jade Boyd
ISBN: 9781839540714
Format: Paperback
$43.56

Federico Garcia Lorca's (1898-1936) powerful and experimental colour-work is a critically undernourished aspect...  Read More >>

All That Matters: The Inspirational and Uplifting Memoir of Hope From One of GB's Greatest Olympians

All That Matters: The Inspirational and Uplifting Memoir...

Author: Sir Chris Hoy
ISBN: 9781399741866
Format: Paperback
$24.99

In this new memoir, cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy reveals the truth of his cancer diagnosis and how he is determined...  Read More >>

Design and Discomfort: Teaching Shakespeare and Race

Design and Discomfort: Teaching Shakespeare and Race...

Author: Laura B. Turchi
ISBN: 9780866987998
Format: Hardback
$102.96

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The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and Politics

The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and...

Author: Tony Fisher
ISBN: 9781526191151
Format: Paperback
$56.99

The aesthetic exception critically re-evaluates the relation between art and politics by challenging longstanding...  Read More >>

Drama in the English Classroom

Drama in the English Classroom

Author: Ken Byron
ISBN: 9781041022268
Format: Hardback
$179.00

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Theaters of Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in Shakespeare's England

Theaters of Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in...

Author: Andrew S. Keener
ISBN: 9780817362041
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights...  Read More >>

Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television: An outline for the student

Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television:...

Author: John Russell Brown
ISBN: 9781032505022
Format: Paperback
$58.99

First published in 1971, Drama and the Theatre with Radio, Film and Television is concerned with the nature of theatre...  Read More >>

Pony: A Play

Pony: A Play

Author: Sylvan Oswald
ISBN: 9780810148659
Format: Paperback
$52.80

A seminal work of trans theater, Sylvan Oswald's Pony investigates themes of class, identity, and place.  Read More >>

Stefan Javors’kyj's Panegyrics: 1684–1691

Stefan Javors’kyj's Panegyrics: 1684–1691

Author: Jakub Niedźwiedź ,  Bartosz Awianowicz
ISBN: 9789004723368
Format: Hardback
$271.92

This book presents the first edition of Polish and Latin works by Stefan Javors’kyj (1658–1722), the leading author...  Read More >>

Theaters of Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in Shakespeare's England

Theaters of Translation: Cosmopolitan Vernaculars in...

Author: Andrew S. Keener
ISBN: 9780817322328
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Explores the profound influence of multilingual dictionaries, dialogues, and grammars on English Renaissance playwrights...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on the Radio: A Century of BBC Plays

Shakespeare on the Radio: A Century of BBC Plays

Author: Andrea Smith (Lecturer in English, University of Suffolk)
ISBN: 9781399547260
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Brings together Shakespearean performance, audio drama studies and media history to offer the first detailed examination...  Read More >>

Conversations with New York School Poets

Conversations with New York School Poets

Author: Yasmine Shamma (Professor of Literature, University of Hull) ,  Rona Cran (Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century American Literature, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781474478991
Format: Hardback
$288.00

In these exclusive interviews, New York School poets reveal what the New York School meant to them and how its legacy...  Read More >>

On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration

On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration

Author: Dr. Hannah Crawforth (Lecturer, King's College London, UK) ,  Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350531505
Format: Paperback
$34.99

On Shakespeare's Sonnets: A Poets' Celebration brings together...  Read More >>

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

Author: Ato Quayson (Stanford University, California)
ISBN: 9781108926195
Format: Paperback
$56.90

This book focuses on a comparative reading of tragedy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to postcolonial examples...  Read More >>

The Plays of Edward Bond: Revised, Expanded Edition

The Plays of Edward Bond: Revised, Expanded Edition...

Author: Tony Coult
ISBN: 9781041061892
Format: Hardback
$179.00

First published in 1977, The Plays of Edward Bond offers help and stimulation to readers and theatre-goers who want...  Read More >>

Once Before I Go

Once Before I Go

Author: Phillip McMahon (Author) ,  Fintan Walsh (Author, Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350523760
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A Student Edition of this 2021 play, exploring its themes of sexuality, emigration and time, as well as its use...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett and Ecology

Samuel Beckett and Ecology

Author: Trish McTighe (Queen's University Belfast, UK) ,  Céline Thobois-Gupta (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350366022
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This is the first full-length book to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work through contemporary ecological thinking,...  Read More >>

Ineffable Bodies: Heroism on the Early Modern Stage

Ineffable Bodies: Heroism on the Early Modern Stage...

Author: Christine Sukic
ISBN: 9781032817996
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Shakespeare in Bloomsbury

Shakespeare in Bloomsbury

Author: Marjorie Garber
ISBN: 9780300281880
Format: Paperback
$34.95

The untold story of Shakespeare's profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group  Read More >>

Postmodernism in Arthur Miller’s Long-Late Period

Postmodernism in Arthur Miller’s Long-Late Period

Author: Ciarán Leinster
ISBN: 9789004692985
Format: Hardback
$300.96

This book takes a fresh approach to the work of Arthur Miller, focusing on his lesser-known plays and essays to...  Read More >>

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