Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23416 books were found.

Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage

Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early...

Author: Jennifer Eun-Jung Row
ISBN: 9780810144705
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Explores how seventeenth-century French theatre represents queer desire. In this book, the first queer theoretical...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Other Son?: William Davenant, Playwright, Civil War Gun Runner and Restoration Theatre Manager

Shakespeare's Other Son?: William Davenant, Playwright,...

Author: R E Pritchard
ISBN: 9781399093491
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The life of William Davenant -Shakespeare's godson and potential biological son -reads as entertainingly as his...  Read More >>

Chartist Drama

Chartist Drama

Author: Gregory Vargo
ISBN: 9781526164100
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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John Fletcher's Rome: Questioning the Classics

John Fletcher's Rome: Questioning the Classics

Author: Domenico Lovascio
ISBN: 9781526157386
Format: Hardback
$185.00

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Haunted Dreams: Fantasies of Adolescence in Post-Soviet Culture

Haunted Dreams: Fantasies of Adolescence in Post-Soviet...

Author: Jenny Kaminer
ISBN: 9781501762192
Format: Hardback
$88.00

""This book analyzes representations of adolescence in Russian culture-including in prose, film, drama, and television-in...  Read More >>

King James and the Theatre of Witches: Subversion upon the Jacobean Stage

King James and the Theatre of Witches: Subversion upon...

Author: Dawn Adrienne Saliba
ISBN: 9781527575561
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This book presents a cultural analysis of King James I of England’s evolving perspectives regarding witchcraft and...  Read More >>

Theatre Complet. Tome IV: Tragi-Comedies Historiques

Theatre Complet. Tome IV: Tragi-Comedies Historiques...

Author: William Brooks ,  Buford Norman
ISBN: 9782406129301
Format: Paperback
$147.84

This volume gathers the last five tragicomedies of Philippe Quinault, which all were devoted to historical subjects....  Read More >>

Theatre Complet. Tome IV: Tragi-Comedies Historiques

Theatre Complet. Tome IV: Tragi-Comedies Historiques...

Author: William Brooks ,  Buford Norman
ISBN: 9782406129318
Format: Hardback
$266.64

This volume gathers the last five tragicomedies of Philippe Quinault, which all were devoted to historical subjects....  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Villains: great and small

Shakespeare's Villains: great and small

Author: Charles W Reick
ISBN: 9798449760449
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The technological advances of the past several decades have provided us with unprecedented access to a large portion...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Syndicate: The First Folio, its Publishers, and the Early Modern Book Trade

Shakespeare's Syndicate: The First Folio, its Publishers,...

Author: Ben Higgins (Career Development Fellow in English Literature, Departmental Lecturer in English Literature, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192848840
Format: Hardback
$200.95

In 1623 a team of stationers published what has become the most famous volume in English literary history: William...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on Prejudice: 'Scorns and Mislike' in Shakespeare's Plays

Shakespeare on Prejudice: 'Scorns and Mislike' in Shakespeare's...

Author: Professor B. J. Sokol (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350168398
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This is a contextual study of Shakespeare's insightful depictions of varied sorts of prejudice, including prejudice...  Read More >>

Cherry Jezebel

Cherry Jezebel

Author: Jonathan Larkin
ISBN: 9781350339125
Format: Paperback
$21.99

""First performed on 8 March 2022 at the Everyman theatre, Liverpool.""  Read More >>

71 Coltman Street

71 Coltman Street

Author: Richard Bean (Author)
ISBN: 9781350342125
Format: Paperback
$23.99

I want theatre to be sweaty, exciting, unpredictable…. Mike Bradwell is on a mission to revolutionise British theatre....  Read More >>

Queering Lorca's Duende: Desire, Death, Intermediality

Queering Lorca's Duende: Desire, Death, Intermediality...

Author: Miguel García
ISBN: 9781781887240
Format: Hardback
$303.60

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Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to...

Author: Jonathan Bate ,  Jonathan Bate
ISBN: 9780008584948
Format: Audio
$110.85

'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous...  Read More >>

Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to...

Author: Jonathan Bate ,  Jonathan Bate
ISBN: 9780008584962
Format: Audio
$110.85

'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous...  Read More >>

Eugene O'Neill's Philosophy of Difficult Theatre: Pity, Fear, and Forgiveness

Eugene O'Neill's Philosophy of Difficult Theatre: Pity,...

Author: Jeremy Killian
ISBN: 9780367519117
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Through a close re-examination of Eugene O’Neill’s oeuvre, from minor plays to his Pulitzer-winning works, this...  Read More >>

Strindberg and the Western Canon

Strindberg and the Western Canon

Author: Jan Balbierz
ISBN: 9788323347798
Format: Paperback
$129.38

During the whole of his writing career August Strindberg was a restless canon maker. This volume gathers contributions...  Read More >>

Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion: Shavian Sisters

Language and Metadrama in Major Barbara and Pygmalion:...

Author: Jean Reynolds
ISBN: 9783030960704
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s Major Barbara and Pygmalion that have received little attention...  Read More >>

Sweete Wittie Soules: Shakespeare's Connections To Oxford, Town, Gown and Shire: Second Edition

Sweete Wittie Soules: Shakespeare's Connections To Oxford,...

Author:
ISBN: 9780993596223
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre: Three Tragedies and Six Essays

When Life Gives You Risk, Make Risk Theatre: Three Tragedies...

Author: Edwin Wong ,  Gabriel Jason Dean
ISBN: 9781039135093
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Creators, Innovators, and Theatremakers: Defy the Smallness of the Stage With the Greatness of Your Daring Wong's...  Read More >>

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