Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde

The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde
Author: Kate Hext (Associate Professor of Decadent Literature and the Arts, University of Exeter) , Alex Murray (Professor of Modern Literature, Queens University Belfast) ISBN: 9780192866950 Format: Hardback	$339.95
This Handbook puts Wilde the Icon into an expansive literary, cultural, and dramatic context. Its thirty-six contributors... Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern...
Author: Rory Loughnane (Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent) , Will Sharpe (Teaching Fellow in Shakespeare, University of Birmingham) ISBN: 9780198852414 Format: Hardback	$382.95
This Handbook explores authorship in Shakespeare studies. The four parts study notions of early modern authorship... Read More >>

Edward Albee and the Emergence of Difference and Diversity in US and World Theatre: 1950s-1970s

Edward Albee and the Emergence of Difference and Diversity...
Author: David A. Crespy , Les Gray ISBN: 9781032770796 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This collection of essays seeks to present articles that examine the early ventures of the 1960s and 1970s in the... Read More >>

Invasive Species

Invasive Species
Author: Maia Mihanovich ISBN: 9781350602212 Format: Paperback	$21.99
Maia Novi's New York cult hit dark comedy about lying to live, and living to lie. Read More >>

Seneca: Phoenissae: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Seneca: Phoenissae: Edited with Introduction, Translation,...
Author: A. J. Boyle (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, University of Southern California) ISBN: 9780198889168 Format: Hardback	$417.95
Phoenissae is probably Seneca's final play, a work of great dramatic, poetic, and intellectual force, permeated... Read More >>

Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: Disability, Gender, Race, Ecology

Shakespeare, St Paul, and Dramatic Emancipation: Disability,...
Author: Randall Martin (Adjunct Research Professor, Adjunct Research Professor, University of Western Ontario) ISBN: 9780198970927 Format: Hardback	$182.95
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The Shakespeare Synopsis

The Shakespeare Synopsis
Author: Paul Philip Studer ISBN: 9781805880936 Format: Paperback	$28.51
A synopsis of 24 Shakespeare plays. The idea is that students can read my synopsis before they tackle the play.... Read More >>

Hunting for Justice: The Cosmology of Dike in Aeschylus’s Oresteia

Hunting for Justice: The Cosmology of Dike in Aeschylus’s...
Author: Kalliopi Nikolopoulou ISBN: 9798855801279 Format: Paperback	$94.91
Utilizes Greek tragedy to investigate the fundamentally arbitrary and violent nature of justice. Read More >>

Bacchae

Bacchae
Author: Nima Taleghani , Euripides ISBN: 9781350592605 Format: Paperback	$21.99
In an exciting new version of Euripides' The Bacchae, Nima Taleghani brings the ultimate tragedy to life through... Read More >>

Kiss of the Spider Woman: adapted for the stage

Kiss of the Spider Woman: adapted for the stage
Author: Manuel Puig , Allan Baker ISBN: 9781738476923 Format: Paperback	$31.02
Two men share a prison cell in Buenos Aires. Valentin is a revolutionary, young and idealistic. His cellmate Molina... Read More >>

Travesty Actors: Self and Theater in Stalinist Culture

Travesty Actors: Self and Theater in Stalinist Culture...
Author: Boris Wolfson , Simon Morrison ISBN: 9780810149243 Format: Paperback	$95.04
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The English Morality Play: Origins, HIstory, and Influence of a Dramatic Tradition

The English Morality Play: Origins, HIstory, and Influence...
Author: Robert A Potter ISBN: 9781032553092 Format: Paperback	$57.99
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Macbeth: Gilded Pocket Edition

Macbeth: Gilded Pocket Edition
Author: William Shakespeare ISBN: 9781398851351 Format: Hardback	$34.29
This handsome hardback edition presents William Shakespeare's most loved works: the classic tragedy, Macbeth. Featuring... Read More >>

Schechner Plays

Schechner Plays
Author: Richard Schechner (New York University) ISBN: 9781835950944 Format: Hardback	$298.95
A collection of performance texts ranging from orthodox plays to group-devised texts. The book traces from most... Read More >>

Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English...
Author: Heidi Craig (Texas A&M University) ISBN: 9781009224055 Format: Paperback	$59.49
For students and researchers of early modern drama, Shakespeare, book history and theatre history, this book unearths... Read More >>

Beaumont and Fletcher: A Critical Study

Beaumont and Fletcher: A Critical Study
Author: William W. Appleton ISBN: 9781041108320 Format: Hardback	$179.00
First published in 1956, Beaumont and Fletcher offers a compact critical survey of the plays by Beaumont and Fletcher,... Read More >>

Roman Comedy against the Subject

Roman Comedy against the Subject
Author: Mario Telò (Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, University of California Berkeley) ISBN: 9780198920090 Format: Hardback	$199.95
This book integrates several critical-theoretical approaches including object-oriented ontology, queer theory, and... Read More >>

The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text and Performance

The Radheshyam Ramayan in Text and Performance
Author: Pamela Lothspeich (Professor of South Asian Studies, Professor of South Asian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) ISBN: 9780198948896 Format: Hardback	$282.95
Pandit Radheshyam Kathavachak, a 20th-century poet, reinterpreted the Ramayan into the 'Radheshyam Ramayan', blending... Read More >>

Every Brilliant Thing

Every Brilliant Thing
Author: Duncan Macmillan ISBN: 9781350603523 Format: Paperback	$21.99
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Class on Page and Stage: The Australian Working Class in Contemporary Literature and Theatre

Class on Page and Stage: The Australian Working Class...
Author: Anne Brewster , Sarah Attfield ISBN: 9781789977356 Format: Hardback	$142.31
This book explores how working-class experience is represented in contemporary Australian literature and theatre... Read More >>

Bernard Shaw, Playwright: Aspects of Shavian Drama

Bernard Shaw, Playwright: Aspects of Shavian Drama
Author: Bernard F. Dukore ISBN: 9781041146629 Format: Hardback	$271.69
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Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays & Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism...
Author: Rebecca Parks ISBN: 9781535886628 Format: Hardback	$1570.80
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Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy

Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy
Author: Dr Kate Cook (University of St Andrews, UK) ISBN: 9781350410534 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey
Author: Shelagh Delaney , Hannah Simpson (University of Edinburgh, UK) ISBN: 9781350443662 Format: Paperback	$21.99
This Student Edition of Shelagh Delaney's 1958 plays offers a contemporary lens on the play and its then-radical... Read More >>

Monologues, Duologues and Scenes for Young Performers: 30+ Original Pieces

Monologues, Duologues and Scenes for Young Performers:...
Author: Emma-Louise Tinniswood (Drama Teacher and Practitioner) ISBN: 9781350530287 Format: Paperback	$29.99
A new collection of original monologues, duologues and scenes for young actors aged 7 to 16, written specifically... Read More >>

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