Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23414 books were found.

Plautus: Curculio

Plautus: Curculio

Author: T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Wake Forest University, USA) ,  Associate Professor C W Marshall (University of British Columbia Canada)
ISBN: 9781350214330
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This is the first book-length study of Plautus' shortest surviving comedy, Curculio, a play in which the tricksy...  Read More >>

Migrating Shakespeare: First European Encounters, Routes and Networks

Migrating Shakespeare: First European Encounters, Routes...

Author: Prof. Janet Clare (University of Bristol, UK) ,  Dominique Goy-Blanquet (University of Picardie, France)
ISBN: 9781350213852
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Migrating Shakespeare is the first comparative study of inaugurative cultural and national encounters with Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures and Artists

Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures...

Author: Professor Michael Malek Najjar (University of Oregon, USA) ,  Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781350192591
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Middle Eastern American Theatre explores the burgeoning Middle Eastern American theatre movement with a focus on...  Read More >>

Feeling the Gaze: Image and Affect in Contemporary Argentine and Chilean Performance

Feeling the Gaze: Image and Affect in Contemporary Argentine...

Author: Gail Bulman
ISBN: 9781469667430
Format: Paperback
$150.00

Explores the visual elements in eight contemporary Argentine and Chilean theater performances. Gail Bulman shows...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface...

Author: Clifford Werier ,  Paul Budra
ISBN: 9780367420888
Format: Hardback
$483.00

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Fifty Key Irish Plays

Fifty Key Irish Plays

Author: Shaun Richards
ISBN: 9781032066509
Format: Hardback
$221.00

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Author: Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Professor Emerita of English, Boston College)
ISBN: 9780192858733
Format: Hardback
$44.95

A book on the experience of reading the works of Samuel Beckett that covers key topics including Beckett's treatment...  Read More >>

King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations

King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark Consolations

Author: Arthur W. Frank (Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary)
ISBN: 9780192846723
Format: Hardback
$44.95

A book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays' which 'often begin with lives falling apart: an event--shipwreck,...  Read More >>

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

Author: Peter Brooks (Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus, Yale University)
ISBN: 9780192846709
Format: Hardback
$44.95

A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's...  Read More >>

The Comedy of Errors

The Comedy of Errors

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Christina Anderson
ISBN: 9780866987837
Format: Paperback
$26.27

""This translation dives deep into the joy of the madcap bawdiness, love at first sight, reunions, and happily-ever-afters...  Read More >>

The Norton Shakespeare

The Norton Shakespeare

Author: Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University) ,  Walter Cohen (University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9780393264029
Format: Mixed media product
$268.96

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The William Shakespeare Collection: Deluxe 6-Book Hardcover Boxed Set

The William Shakespeare Collection: Deluxe 6-Book Hardcover...

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781398819689
Format: Mixed media product
$158.37

This beautiful boxed selection contains six clothbound volumes of William Shakespeare's best-known plays. From...  Read More >>

A Maldi o Da Floresta

A Maldi o Da Floresta

Author: Joyce H O S
ISBN: 9786500449655
Format: Paperback
$66.26

O medo vai te consumir de forma t o devastadora que a morte vai ser seu maior desejo . Kh ssia uma feiticeira poderosa...  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: 9780028673875
Format: Hardback
$1790.58

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

Erwin Piscators 'Die Rauber': Regiebuch Und Weitere Dokumente Zur Berliner Schiller-Inszenierung Von 1926

Erwin Piscators 'Die Rauber': Regiebuch Und Weitere...

Author: Nina Birkner
ISBN: 9783825349790
Format: Hardback
$121.44

Erwin Piscators 'Rauber'-Inszenierung von 1926 hat fur die Theatergeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts paradigmatische...  Read More >>

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke 1554-1628: A Critical Biography

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke 1554-1628: A Critical Biography...

Author: Joan Rees
ISBN: 9780520333208
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

The Stage and the Page: London's Whole Show in the Eighteenth-Century Theatre

The Stage and the Page: London's Whole Show in the Eighteenth-Century...

Author: George Winchester Stone
ISBN: 9780520334922
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales

Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury...

Author: Laura Kendrick
ISBN: 9780520336636
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama: Four Studies

The Contemporary Chinese Historical Drama: Four Studies...

Author: Rudolf G. Wagner
ISBN: 9780520337800
Format: Paperback
$82.95

China's ""Great Leap Forward"" of 1958-1961 was a time of official rejoicing over the achievements of Communism,...  Read More >>

Our Naked Frailties: Sensational Art and Meaning in Macbeth

Our Naked Frailties: Sensational Art and Meaning in...

Author: Paul A. Jorgensen
ISBN: 9780520336179
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Goethe's Faust: Its Genesis and Purport

Goethe's Faust: Its Genesis and Purport

Author: Eudo C. Mason
ISBN: 9780520346116
Format: Paperback
$82.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

The Medieval Heritage of Elizabethan Tragedy

The Medieval Heritage of Elizabethan Tragedy

Author: Willard Farnham
ISBN: 9780520345034
Format: Paperback
$90.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Bibliography of Medieval Drama

Bibliography of Medieval Drama

Author: Carl J. Stratman
ISBN: 9780520345560
Format: Paperback
$82.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

Henry Irving's Waterloo: Theatrical Engagements with Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry, Edward Gordon Craig, Late-Victorian Culture, Assorted Ghosts, Old Men, War, and History

Henry Irving's Waterloo: Theatrical Engagements with...

Author: W. D. King
ISBN: 9780520333314
Format: Paperback
$82.95

"Late in the 19th century, Henry Irving was scathingly attacked by George Bernard Shaw for his popular performance...  Read More >>

The World of Jean Anouilh

The World of Jean Anouilh

Author: Leonard C. Pronko
ISBN: 9780520333406
Format: Paperback
$65.95

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission...  Read More >>

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