Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23416 books were found.

Plautus: Menaechmi

Plautus: Menaechmi

Author: Dr V. Sophie Klein (Boston University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350092723
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama: War, Death, Morality

The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German...

Author: Professor Brian Murdoch
ISBN: 9781640141179
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge...  Read More >>

Dry Swallow

Dry Swallow

Author: Lucas Baisch
ISBN: 9781350291706
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Dry Swallow explores surrogacy, consumption, and substance abuse, while provoking the question: who's allowed a...  Read More >>

Plautus: Mostellaria

Plautus: Mostellaria

Author: Professor George Fredric Franko (Hollins University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350188419
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Plautus' Mostellaria is one of ancient Rome’s most breezy and amusing comedies. The plot is ridiculously simple:...  Read More >>

Plautus: Menaechmi

Plautus: Menaechmi

Author: Dr V. Sophie Klein (Boston University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350092730
Format: Hardback
$120.00

This new volume in the Bloomsbury Ancient Comedy Companions series is perfect for students coming to one of Plautus'...  Read More >>

Modernists and the Theatre: The Drama of W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf

Modernists and the Theatre: The Drama of W.B. Yeats,...

Author: James Moran (University of Nottingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781350145498
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Modernists and the Theatre examines how six key modernists, who are best known as poets and novelists, engaged with...  Read More >>

Classical Greek Tragedy

Classical Greek Tragedy

Author: Judith Fletcher (Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada) ,  Simon Shepherd (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350144576
Format: Hardback
$100.00

Classical Greek Tragedy offers a comprehensive survey of the development of classical Greek tragedy combined with...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on European Festival Stages

Shakespeare on European Festival Stages

Author: Nicoleta Cinpoes (University of Worcester, UK) ,  Florence March (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France)
ISBN: 9781350140165
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A ground-breaking account of the significance of Shakespeare in modern Europe revealing the histories of the many...  Read More >>

Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama During Europe's Age of Reason

Shadows of the Enlightenment: Tragic Drama During Europe's...

Author: Blair Hoxby
ISBN: 9780814215005
Format: Hardback
$263.87

A broad exploration of the collision and coexistence of classical and modernizing forces within tragic drama during...  Read More >>

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial...

Author: Zachary F Price
ISBN: 9780814258132
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Deploys martial arts as a lens to analyze performance, power, and identity within the evolving fusion of Black and...  Read More >>

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

Author: Sophie Tomlinson
ISBN: 9780719088629
Format: Hardback
$185.00

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Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Wasps, Peace: A Verse Translation, with Introductions and Notes

Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, Wasps, Peace: A Verse...

Author: Stephen Halliwell (Wardlaw Professor of Greek Emeritus, Wardlaw Professor of Greek Emeritus, University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9780198149958
Format: Hardback
$304.03

This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell....  Read More >>

Tony Harrison and the Classics

Tony Harrison and the Classics

Author: Sandie Byrne (Associate Professor in English, Associate Professor in English, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198861072
Format: Hardback
$250.99

This volume presents fifteen chapters focusing on different aspects of the work of Tony Harrison, showing how his...  Read More >>

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination

Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial...

Author: Zachary F Price
ISBN: 9780814214602
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Deploys martial arts as a lens to analyze performance, power, and identity within the evolving fusion of Black and...  Read More >>

Translating Molière for the English-speaking Stage: The Role of Verse and Rhyme

Translating Molière for the English-speaking Stage:...

Author: Cédric Ploix
ISBN: 9780367506599
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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British Enlightenment Theatre: Dramatizing Difference

British Enlightenment Theatre: Dramatizing Difference...

Author: Bridget Orr (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee)
ISBN: 9781108731188
Format: Paperback
$82.80

The first study of popular eighteenth-century English theatre to engage with voices of radical dissent that argued...  Read More >>

Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama

Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama...

Author: Leslie C. Dunn
ISBN: 9783030572105
Format: Paperback
$422.37

Performing Disability in Early Modern English Drama investigates the cultural work done by early modern theatrical...  Read More >>

The School for Scandal

The School for Scandal

Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
ISBN: 9785519622059
Format: Paperback
$43.96

A theater classic, often called the best comedy of manners in English, is a delightful play that brilliantly skewers...  Read More >>

Richard III

Richard III

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Migdalia Cruz
ISBN: 9780866986762
Format: Paperback
$26.27

""A contemporary English verse translation, faithfully keeping the poetry, the puns, and the politics of the play...  Read More >>

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