Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Fascinating Rhythms: Shakespeare, Theory, Culture, and the Legacy of Terence Hawkes

Fascinating Rhythms: Shakespeare, Theory, Culture, and...

Author: John Drakakis
ISBN: 9780367768164
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Tombs in Shakespearean Drama: Monumental Theater

Tombs in Shakespearean Drama: Monumental Theater

Author: H. Austin Whitver
ISBN: 9781032343082
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Plays of Our Own: An Anthology of Scripts by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Writers

Plays of Our Own: An Anthology of Scripts by Deaf and...

Author: Willy Conley
ISBN: 9780367632380
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Plays of Our Own is the first anthology of its kind containing an eclectic range of plays by Deaf and hard-of-hearing...  Read More >>

Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography

Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater...

Author: Erika Fischer-Lichte ,  Małgorzata Sugiera
ISBN: 9781032405186
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Entangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of ""entangled histories""...  Read More >>

Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy

Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice...

Author: Eugenio Refini
ISBN: 9781781884379
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare

Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of...

Author: Professor Dustin W. Dixon (Assistant Professor of Classics, Grinnell College, USA) ,  Professor John S. Garrison (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781350239432
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies...  Read More >>

Beckett's Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure

Beckett's Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure...

Author: Corey Wakeling (Kobe College, Japan)
ISBN: 9781350238770
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Offering fresh studies of Samuel Beckett in pre-production, in rehearsal, as an innovator of the script form, and...  Read More >>

Money and Magic in Early Modern Drama

Money and Magic in Early Modern Drama

Author: David Hawkes (Arizona State University, USA) ,  Professor Douglas Bruster (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
ISBN: 9781350247048
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Money, magic and the theatre were powerful forces in early modern England. Money was acquiring an independent,...  Read More >>

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: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9780028673882
Format: Hardback
$1356.96

""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Reading Shakespeare's Poetry

Reading Shakespeare's Poetry

Author: Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University)
ISBN: 9780470659205
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Reading Shakespeare’s Poetry A lively exploration of Shakespeare’s poems and how they speak to readers Reading...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9783988550019
Format: Paperback
$68.38

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

Edward III

Edward III

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Octavio Solis
ISBN: 9780866987813
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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Love in Contemporary British Drama: Traditions and Transformations of a Cultural Emotion

Love in Contemporary British Drama: Traditions and Transformations...

Author: Korbinian Stöckl
ISBN: 9783111111230
Format: Paperback
$34.23

Love is not only a timeless motif that has never lost its grip on writers and audiences. It is also a cultural emotion...  Read More >>

The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home: Dzigan and Shumacher’s Satirical Theater (1927-1980)

The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home: Dzigan and Shumacher’s...

Author: Diego Rotman
ISBN: 9783111114590
Format: Paperback
$34.23

The book explores the life and career of iconic Yiddish Theater comic duo - Dzigan and Shumacher - from the beginning...  Read More >>

Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective Identity, 1916–2016

Memorialising Shakespeare: Commemoration and Collective...

Author: Edmund G. C. King ,  Monika Smialkowska
ISBN: 9783030840150
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning

Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning

Author: Lisa Dickson ,  Shannon Murray
ISBN: 9781487570514
Format: Paperback
$56.90

Taking cues from the energy of the stage, this book harnesses lessons from some of Shakespeare's most popular plays...  Read More >>

Malapert Love: A Play

Malapert Love: A Play

Author: Siah Berlatsky
ISBN: 9781957328096
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Malapert Love is the funniest show of the year! -Chicago On Stage NOMINATED FOR 5 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARDS! MALAPERT...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning

Shakespeare's Guide to Hope, Life, and Learning

Author: Lisa Dickson ,  Shannon Murray
ISBN: 9781487570521
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Taking cues from the energy of the stage, this book harnesses lessons from some of Shakespeare's most popular plays...  Read More >>

Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage: El teatre còmic en català (1900–2016)

Acting Funny on the Catalan Stage: El teatre còmic en...

Author: Francis Lough ,  John London
ISBN: 9781787073227
Format: Paperback
$124.20

This volume is the first concentrated attempt to analyse Catalan theatre under the comic lens, including the study...  Read More >>

Athena

Athena

Author: Gracie Gardner
ISBN: 9781350359666
Format: Paperback
$23.99

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The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and the Stage

The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance,...

Author: Soyica Diggs Colbert (Assistant Professor of English, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)
ISBN: 9781009310581
Format: Paperback
$62.10

Soyica Colbert explores the history and reception of black performance traditions, including preaching, dancing,...  Read More >>

Japan on the Jesuit Stage: Two 17th-Century Latin Plays with Translation and Commentary

Japan on the Jesuit Stage: Two 17th-Century Latin Plays...

Author: Professor Akihiko Watanabe (Otsuma Women’s University, Japan) ,  Bobby Xinyue (King's College London UK)
ISBN: 9781350217195
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The Jesuits were a major source of European information on Japan from the late 16th to early 17th century. Not only...  Read More >>

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