Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23416 books were found.

100 Plays to Save the World

100 Plays to Save the World

Author: Elizabeth Freestone ,  Jeanie O'Hare
ISBN: 9781839040498
Format: Paperback
$31.99

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Holding a Mirror up to Nature: Shame, Guilt, and Violence in Shakespeare

Holding a Mirror up to Nature: Shame, Guilt, and Violence...

Author: James Gilligan (New York University) ,  David A.J. Richards
ISBN: 9781108833394
Format: Hardback
$256.16

This volume is for both lovers of Shakespeare and those who are concerned about the danger that humanity's propensity...  Read More >>

Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage: Artful Devices

Fencing, Form and Cognition on the Early Modern Stage:...

Author: Dori Coblentz
ISBN: 9781474482264
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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No Hamlets: German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt

No Hamlets: German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl...

Author: Andreas Höfele (, University of Munich)
ISBN: 9780192857439
Format: Paperback
$67.95

Andreas Höfele presents the first critical account of the role of Shakespeare in the intellectual tradition of the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Political Imagination: The Historicism of Setting

Shakespeare's Political Imagination: The Historicism...

Author: Philip Goldfarb Styrt (St. Ambrose University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350173972
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Shakespeare’s Political Imagination argues that to better understand Shakespeare’s plays it is essential to look...  Read More >>

One-Hour Shakespeare: More Comedies and Tragedies

One-Hour Shakespeare: More Comedies and Tragedies

Author: Julie Fain Lawrence-Edsell
ISBN: 9780367696283
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically...  Read More >>

Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses and Playgoers in Elizabethan England

Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion: Playhouses...

Author: Professor William N. West
ISBN: 9780226809038
Format: Paperback
$54.95

A new account of playgoing in Elizabethan England, in which audiences participated as much as performers.   What...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction: Problems in Postmodernism

Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction: Problems...

Author: James Baxter
ISBN: 9783030815714
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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Theater Und Krise: Paradigmen Der Storung in Dramentexten Und Buhnenkonzepten Nach 2000

Theater Und Krise: Paradigmen Der Storung in Dramentexten...

Author: Marta Famula ,  Verena Witschel
ISBN: 9783770566723
Format: Hardback
$314.16

From the point of view of literature, theater, and media studies, this volume illustrates the reciprocal relationship...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of...

Author: Peter D. Usher
ISBN: 9781433191701
Format: Hardback
$264.13

""Hamlet"" and other plays by Shakespeare are allegories for the major theories of cosmology extant during the poet’s...  Read More >>

Lorca in English: A History of Manipulation through Translation

Lorca in English: A History of Manipulation through...

Author: Andrew Samuel Walsh
ISBN: 9780367531393
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Drama According to Alexander Bakshy, 1916-1946

Drama According to Alexander Bakshy, 1916-1946

Author: James R. Russo
ISBN: 9781680532760
Format: Hardback
$323.00

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The Treaty

The Treaty

Author: Colin Murphy
ISBN: 9781350299870
Format: Paperback
$21.99

In October 1921, a delegation of the Dáil left by boat and train for London, where they were to negotiate with the...  Read More >>

Shakeshafte and Other Plays

Shakeshafte and Other Plays

Author: Rowan Williams
ISBN: 9781639821020
Format: Paperback
$31.02

Gathered together for the first time, these three plays by Rowan Williams-known throughout the world not only as...  Read More >>

Theater and World: The Problematics of Shakespeare's History

Theater and World: The Problematics of Shakespeare's...

Author: Jonathan Hart
ISBN: 9781032005270
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Shakeshafte and Other Plays

Shakeshafte and Other Plays

Author: Rowan Williams
ISBN: 9781639821037
Format: Hardback
$54.34

Gathered together for the first time, these three plays by Rowan Williams--known throughout the world not only as...  Read More >>

The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata

The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency,...

Author: Pamela Allen Brown (Professor of English, University of Connecticut)
ISBN: 9780198867838
Format: Hardback
$200.95

Explores the extent to which the early modern English stage came to reflect the presence and performances of Italian...  Read More >>

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death

Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the...

Author: Harold Bloom
ISBN: 9780300261530
Format: Paperback
$41.95

The last book written by the most famous literary critic of his generation, on the sustaining power of poetry  Read More >>

Yes So I Said Yes

Yes So I Said Yes

Author: David Ireland
ISBN: 9781350301122
Format: Paperback
$21.99

It’s harder to kill people when there’s a peace process on. Ulster Loyalist Alan Black is kept awake every night...  Read More >>

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