Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23416 books were found.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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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