Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23308 books were found.

Macbeth

Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9789350642092
Format: Paperback
$29.01

An edition of Shakespeare's play in the Shakespeare Folios series, offering the absolute authenticity of the First...  Read More >>

Assembly and its Other in German Romantic Literature and Thought: The Inexhaustible Gathering

Assembly and its Other in German Romantic Literature...

Author: Robert E. Mottram ,  Christopher R. Clason
ISBN: 9781802077261
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Wholeness and its concomitant sense of harmony, rather than a natural given, is a construct that was assembled and...  Read More >>

HAKAWATIS: Women of the Arabian Nights

HAKAWATIS: Women of the Arabian Nights

Author: Hannah Khalil
ISBN: 9781350381568
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Hakawati Noun: Storyteller. From the Arabic terms 'hekaye' meaning story and 'haki' meaning to talk. A tyrant revenges...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip Kemble

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sarah Siddons and John Philip...

Author: Fiona Ritchie (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) ,  Bridget Escolme (Reader, LONDON, UK)
ISBN: 9781350073289
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Siblings Sarah Siddons (1755–1831) and John Philip Kemble (1757–1823) were the most famous British actors of the...  Read More >>

Poison, Play, and Duel: A Study in Hamlet

Poison, Play, and Duel: A Study in Hamlet

Author: Nigel Alexander
ISBN: 9781032359205
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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The Knight of the Burning Pestle

The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Author: Francis Beaumont ,  Todd Pettigrew
ISBN: 9781554815197
Format: Paperback
$50.82

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Contemporary Australian Playwriting: Re-visioning the Nation on the Mainstage

Contemporary Australian Playwriting: Re-visioning the...

Author: Chris Hay (Flinders University, Australia) ,  Stephen Carleton (University of Queensland, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032008615
Format: Paperback
$77.99

At a politically turbulent time when national identity is fractured, this book examines the ways in which Australia’s...  Read More >>

Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies of Ben Jonson: Guides Not Commanders

Imitation and Contamination of the Classics in the Comedies...

Author: Tom Harrison
ISBN: 9780367474164
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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12:37

12:37

Author: Julia Pascal (Author)
ISBN: 9781350380547
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Does Tommy know you're Jewish? Tommy knows I'm Irish. At 12:37pm on 22 July 1946, the King David Hotel in Jerusalem...  Read More >>

Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark: A Collection of Essays on Shakespeare in his Christian Context

Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark: A Collection of...

Author: Michael Scott ,  Michael J Collins
ISBN: 9781648895760
Format: Paperback
$163.68

The heterogeneity of Shakespeare’s world is reflected in the heterogeneity of the essays, each an individual response...  Read More >>

Legends of the Bastille

Legends of the Bastille

Author: Frantz Funck-Brentano
ISBN: 9789356719606
Format: Paperback
$59.06

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Renaissance Papers 2021

Renaissance Papers 2021

Author: Jim Pearce (Contributor) ,  Professor Ward J. Risvold
ISBN: 9781640141438
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Essays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us

Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us

Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
ISBN: 9781773237213
Format: Paperback
$42.11

This is a study of the poet based on evidence drawn from the whole of Shakespeare's images, collected, sorted, and...  Read More >>

Molière in Context

Molière in Context

Author: Jan Clarke (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781108493215
Format: Hardback
$227.70

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To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore: Performing Tagore's Plays

To Stage or Not to Stage Tagore: Performing Tagore's...

Author: Konar Rajdeep
ISBN: 9781032389257
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 47

The Brecht Yearbook / Das Brecht-Jahrbuch 47

Author: Professor Markus Wessendorf (Customer) ,  Dr Professor Jurgen Hillesheim (Contributor)
ISBN: 9781640141421
Format: Paperback
$211.20

An annual volume, this time with special attention to the relevance of Brecht's work in today's world of resurgent...  Read More >>

we were promised honey!

we were promised honey!

Author: Sam Ward
ISBN: 9781350381353
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The show that we're about to do is a story about the future. The story that we're going to tell is the story of...  Read More >>

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

Author: Douglas Bruster (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
ISBN: 9781032312514
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts...  Read More >>

April 1751 - Oktober 1751

April 1751 - Oktober 1751

Author: Caroline Köhler ,  Franziska Menzel
ISBN: 9783111012186
Format: Hardback
$897.60

Christoph Otto von Schönaich hatte im März 1751 sein Epos Hermann, oder das befreyte Deutschland an Gottsched geschickt....  Read More >>

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