Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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King Henry V: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

King Henry V: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
Author: Joseph Candido (University of Arkansas, USA) , Professor Brian Vickers (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK) ISBN: 9781474258050 Format: Hardback	$280.00
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Des Epimenides Erwachen: Ein Festspiel

Des Epimenides Erwachen: Ein Festspiel
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ISBN: 9783428178681 Format: Paperback	$39.60
Vordergrundig geht es in Goethes Festspiel Des Epimenides Erwachen um den gleichnamigen griechischen Philosophen,... Read More >>

Shakespeare and Textual Theory

Shakespeare and Textual Theory
Author: Prof. Suzanne Gossett (Loyola University Chicago, USA) , Dr Evelyn Gajowski (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA) ISBN: 9781350121249 Format: Hardback	$140.00
An essential resource for the history of Shakespeare on the page, this book traces the historical intersection of... Read More >>

25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth, and Black Theater

25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival: A Decade...
Author: Kelley Nicole Girod ISBN: 9781350268111 Format: Hardback	$160.00
""While the past decade proved to be some of the most tumultuous times in modern US history, the Black community... Read More >>

The Changeling: The State of Play

The Changeling: The State of Play
Author: Professor Gordon McMullan (King's College London, UK) , Kelly Stage (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) ISBN: 9781350174382 Format: Hardback	$170.00
This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling... Read More >>

I Ain't Dumb

I Ain't Dumb
Author: Tom Wright ISBN: 9781350326422 Format: Paperback	$21.99
A tough inner-city school, proud of its inclusivity, suddenly explodes in a rapidly escalating culture war. Sex... Read More >>

Early Modern German Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew: Tito Andronico and Kunst über alle Künste, ein bös Weib gut zu machen in Translation

Early Modern German Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus and...
Author: Lukas Erne (University of Geneva, Switzerland) , Florence Hazrat (University of Sheffield, UK) ISBN: 9781350094758 Format: Hardback	$220.00
This open access book provides translations of early German versions of Titus Andronicus and The Taming of the Shrew.... Read More >>

Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions of Performance in Early English Theatre: Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies

Staging, Playing, Pyrotechnics and Magic: Conventions...
Author: Philip Butterworth , Peter Harrop ISBN: 9781032050362 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Writings on Art and Poetical Theory

Writings on Art and Poetical Theory
Author: Fernando Pessoa , Nuno Ribeiro ISBN: 9781940625508 Format: Paperback	$52.80
A selection of Fernando Pessoa's writings (or those of his heteronyms) on art and poetical theory, originally written... Read More >>

Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts

Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken...
Author: Kathryn Harkup ISBN: 9781472958204 Format: Paperback	$24.99
An in-depth look at the science behind the creative methods Shakespeare used to kill off his characters Read More >>

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Brontë , Emma Rice (Theatre Company) ISBN: 9781350334540 Format: Paperback	$21.99
""Rescued from the Liverpool docks as a child, Heathcliff is adopted by the Earnshaws and taken to live at Wuthering... Read More >>

Cormac Mccarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned

Cormac Mccarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned...
Author: Patrick O'Connor ISBN: 9781474497268 Format: Hardback	$200.00
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Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy

Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy...
Author: Iman Sheeha ISBN: 9780367503772 Format: Paperback	$90.99
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Persuasionsstrategien im vormodernen Theater (14.–16. Jh.): Eine semiotische Analyse religiöser Spiele im deutschen und französischen Sprachraum

Persuasionsstrategien im vormodernen Theater (14.–16....
Author: Carlotta Posth ISBN: 9783110737257 Format: Hardback	$188.67
Which means were employed in religious plays to convince audiences of their religious and political messages? This... Read More >>

Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London

Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London
Author: Ian Newman , David O'Shaughnessy ISBN: 9781800856912 Format: Paperback	$71.03
With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination... Read More >>

A Narratology of Drama: Dramatic Storytelling in Theory, History, and Culture from the Renaissance to the Twenty-First Century

A Narratology of Drama: Dramatic Storytelling in Theory,...
Author: Christine Schwanecke ISBN: 9783110721379 Format: Hardback	$171.51
This volume debunks what Gérard Genette has called the ""insurmountable opposition"" between drama and narrative.... Read More >>

Shakespeare's Comedies: Explorations in Form

Shakespeare's Comedies: Explorations in Form
Author: Ralph Berry ISBN: 9781138120464 Format: Paperback	$67.99
In this lucid and original study, first published in 1972, Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from... Read More >>

The Golden Labyrinth: A Study of British Drama

The Golden Labyrinth: A Study of British Drama
Author: G. Wilson Knight ISBN: 9781032193731 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London

Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London
Author: Ian Newman , David O'Shaughnessy ISBN: 9781800855984 Format: Hardback	$396.00
With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination... Read More >>

John Lyly: The Humanist as Courtier

John Lyly: The Humanist as Courtier
Author: G K Hunter ISBN: 9781032267364 Format: Hardback	$273.00
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Fictional Shakespeares and Portraits of Genius

Fictional Shakespeares and Portraits of Genius
Author: Annalisa Castaldo (Widener University) ISBN: 9781641892445 Format: Hardback	$250.80
A study of fictional versions of Shakespeare which demonstrates that Shakespeare is used to explore and understand... Read More >>

Refugee Boy

Refugee Boy
Author: Benjamin Zephaniah , Lemn Sissay (Author) ISBN: 9781350171916 Format: Paperback	$21.99
Alem, the product of an Ethiopean father and Eritrean mother, is left alone in London, his fate resting in the hands... Read More >>

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler
Author: Henrik Ibsen , Sophie Duncan (University of Oxford, UK) ISBN: 9781350110069 Format: Paperback	$21.99
Hedda is an intelligent and ambitious woman, trapped in the stifling environment of a bourgeois 19th-century marriage.... Read More >>

Shakespeare and Virtual Reality

Shakespeare and Virtual Reality
Author: Stephen Wittek (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania) , David McInnis (University of Melbourne) ISBN: 9781009001878 Format: Paperback	$60.72
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The Merchant of Venice: The State of Play

The Merchant of Venice: The State of Play
Author: M. Lindsay Kaplan (Georgetown University, USA) ISBN: 9781350246621 Format: Paperback	$61.99
The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays, whose elements resonate even more profoundly... Read More >>

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