Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Elise Thoron
ISBN: 9780866986809
Format: Paperback
$26.27

""This clear, compelling contemporary verse translation retains the power of the original iambic pentameter while...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar: Shakespeare Retold

Julius Caesar: Shakespeare Retold

Author: William Shakespeare ,  James Anthony
ISBN: 9781914927027
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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Macbeth: Shakespeare Retold

Macbeth: Shakespeare Retold

Author: William Shakespeare ,  James Anthony
ISBN: 9781914927034
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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Shakescenes: Short plays for Shakespeare lovers

Shakescenes: Short plays for Shakespeare lovers

Author: Andrew Wetmore
ISBN: 9781990187247
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Four short plays drawing on Shakespeare's works and our modern-day use of them: 'Twenty Minute Tragedy', 'Sprite...  Read More >>

Twelfth Night: Shakespeare Retold

Twelfth Night: Shakespeare Retold

Author: William Shakespeare ,  James Anthony
ISBN: 9781914927003
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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Hamlet: Shakespeare Retold

Hamlet: Shakespeare Retold

Author: William Shakespeare ,  James Anthony
ISBN: 9781914927010
Format: Paperback
$39.57

The original play, complemented with an easily understood, versified retelling. Perfect for students, actors, and...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Science Fiction

Shakespeare and Science Fiction

Author: Sarah Annes Brown
ISBN: 9781800855434
Format: Hardback
$269.10

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All's Well That Ends Well: From Dust to Resurrection

All's Well That Ends Well: From Dust to Resurrection...

Author: Peter Graystone
ISBN: 9781786223548
Format: Paperback
$55.41

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Reliving the Trenches: Memory Plays by Veterans of the Great War

Reliving the Trenches: Memory Plays by Veterans of the...

Author: Alan Filewod
ISBN: 9781771125024
Format: Hardback
$159.50

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Conversations with Sam Shepard

Conversations with Sam Shepard

Author: Jackson R. Bryer ,  Robert M. Dowling
ISBN: 9781496836618
Format: Paperback
$53.90

The famously private Sam Shepard gave a significant number of interviews over the course of his public life, and...  Read More >>

Matheus Steffan: Felicitas

Matheus Steffan: Felicitas

Author: Verena Linseis
ISBN: 9783447114448
Format: Paperback
$110.88

Im Zuge der Einfuhrung des Protestantismus bzw. dessen Bekampfung im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert wurde das Thema des...  Read More >>

Arnold Quiting: Jacobus Und Petrus

Arnold Quiting: Jacobus Und Petrus

Author: Cora Dietl
ISBN: 9783447114431
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Im Zuge der Einfuhrung des Protestantismus bzw. dessen Bekampfung im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert wurde das Thema des...  Read More >>

Conversations with Sam Shepard

Conversations with Sam Shepard

Author: Jackson R. Bryer ,  Robert M. Dowling
ISBN: 9781496836601
Format: Hardback
$194.70

The famously private Sam Shepard gave a significant number of interviews over the course of his public life, and...  Read More >>

Antigone and other Tragedies: Antigone, Deianeira, Electra

Antigone and other Tragedies: Antigone, Deianeira, Electra...

Author: Sophocles ,  Oliver Taplin (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780192806864
Format: Paperback
$11.95

These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the...  Read More >>

Convention and Contravention in Ben Jonson’s Three Comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair

Convention and Contravention in Ben Jonson’s Three Comedies:...

Author: Gül Kurtuluş
ISBN: 9783631852477
Format: Hardback
$94.96

Convention and Contravention in Ben Jonson’s Three Comedies: Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair aims to explain...  Read More >>

Women Talk Back to Shakespeare: Contemporary Adaptations and Appropriations

Women Talk Back to Shakespeare: Contemporary Adaptations...

Author: Jo Eldridge Carney
ISBN: 9780367763527
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women—either authors or their characters—talk...  Read More >>

Beckett and Politics

Beckett and Politics

Author: William Davies ,  Helen Bailey
ISBN: 9783030471125
Format: Paperback
$422.37

Through a range of critical approaches, including performance studies, political theory, gender theory, historicizing...  Read More >>

Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World: Agency in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales

Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World:...

Author: Robert W. Hanning (Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780192894755
Format: Hardback
$259.95

A comparative study of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that explores the differences and similarities...  Read More >>

Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy: Performance, Ethics, Poetics

Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy:...

Author: Michael Meere (Assistant Professor of French and Medieval Studies, Wesleyan University)
ISBN: 9780192844132
Format: Hardback
$189.95

Studies the representation of violence in tragedies written for the French stage during the sixteenth century, and...  Read More >>

Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama: Stakes and Hazards

Games and Gaming in Early Modern Drama: Stakes and Hazards...

Author: Caroline Baird
ISBN: 9783030508593
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book is a close taxonomic study of the pivotal role of games in early modern drama.  Read More >>

Drama, Politics, and Evolution: Cliodynamics in Play

Drama, Politics, and Evolution: Cliodynamics in Play...

Author: Bruce McConachie
ISBN: 9783030813765
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book outlines the evolution of our political nature over two million years and explores many of the rituals,...  Read More >>

Notes on Shakespeare - Lectures by Coleridge

Notes on Shakespeare - Lectures by Coleridge

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN: 9781528719704
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Coleridge helped usher in a revival of interest in Shakespeare's plays and poetry through his lectures at the time....  Read More >>

Relire Cyrano de Bergerac

Relire Cyrano de Bergerac

Author: Violaine Heyraud ,  Bernard Vouilloux
ISBN: 9782406126393
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Adored by some, despised or ignored by others, the play Cyrano de Bergerac occupies a key place in France's national...  Read More >>

Theatre Complet. Tome II

Theatre Complet. Tome II

Author: Alexandre Dumas Fils ,  Lise Sabourin
ISBN: 9782406117810
Format: Paperback
$229.68

This second volume of the Theatre complet of Dumas fils provides an annotated and commented edition of three plays...  Read More >>

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