Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century

Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women:...

Author: Penny Farfan ,  Lesley Ferris
ISBN: 9780472074358
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Explores how women playwrights illuminate the contemporary world and contribute to its reshaping  Read More >>

Magical Epistemologies: Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern English Drama

Magical Epistemologies: Forms of Knowledge in Early...

Author: Anannya Dasgupta
ISBN: 9781032048017
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama

Audionarratology: Lessons from Radio Drama

Author: Lars Bernaerts ,  Jarmila Mildorf
ISBN: 9780814214725
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Explores how radio dramas construct narrative through sound, music, language, and voice.  Read More >>

Exploring Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Four Spanish Plays: A Crisis of Identity

Exploring Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in...

Author: Beth Ann Bernstein
ISBN: 9781793620545
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett

Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett

Author: Laurens De Vos ,  Mariko Hori Tanaka
ISBN: 9789004468399
Format: Hardback
$438.24

Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett uses ‘voice’ as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work across a range of...  Read More >>

A Young Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

A Young Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...

Author: Maria Franziska Fahey
ISBN: 9780578973920
Format: Paperback
$23.29

Many Shakespeare guides don't trust young readers: they translate Shakespeare's rich language into more ordinary...  Read More >>

Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy

Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy

Author: Hélène E. Bilis ,  Ellen McClure
ISBN: 9781603295314
Format: Paperback
$64.90

Addresses both the history of French neoclassical tragedy - its audiences, performance practice, and development...  Read More >>

Drama Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Dramatic Works

Drama Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Most...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781410395856
Format: Hardback
$871.20

Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,...  Read More >>

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays & Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781410397478
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

'Those Gay Days of Wickedness and Wit': The Restoration Period in Popular Historiographies (18th-21st Centuries)

'Those Gay Days of Wickedness and Wit': The Restoration...

Author: Dorothea Flothow
ISBN: 9783825347970
Format: Hardback
$205.92

The popular re-imaginings of past historical periods - in particular of 'successful' periods like the Victorian...  Read More >>

The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams: Tracing the Artistic Process Through Seven Plays

The Metatheater of Tennessee Williams: Tracing the Artistic...

Author: Laura Michiels
ISBN: 9781476666464
Format: Paperback
$171.60

Argues for the persistence of one metatheatrical strategy running throughout Tennessee Williams's entire oeuvre....  Read More >>

Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland

Bernard Shaw and the Making of Modern Ireland

Author: Audrey McNamara ,  Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
ISBN: 9783030421151
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This book is an anthology focused on Shaw’s efforts, literary and political, that worked toward a modernizing Ireland....  Read More >>

The Theatre of Simon Stephens

The Theatre of Simon Stephens

Author: Jacqueline Bolton (University of Lincoln, UK)
ISBN: 9781474238649
Format: Hardback
$180.00

With a clear focus on issues of theatricality and the effect of plays in performance, this Critical Companion critically...  Read More >>

Barber Shop Chronicles

Barber Shop Chronicles

Author: Inua Ellams (Author)
ISBN: 9781350281714
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Barber Shop Chronicles is a generously funny, heart-warming and insightful new play set in five African cities,...  Read More >>

Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy

Teaching French Neoclassical Tragedy

Author: Hélène E. Bilis ,  Ellen McClure
ISBN: 9781603295307
Format: Hardback
$173.80

Addresses both the history of French neoclassical tragedy - its audiences, performance practice, and development...  Read More >>

Changing Destiny

Changing Destiny

Author: Ben Okri
ISBN: 9781350260122
Format: Paperback
$24.99

""First published in Great Britain by Methuen Drama, 2021.""  Read More >>

Old Fortunatus: By Thomas Dekker

Old Fortunatus: By Thomas Dekker

Author: David McInnis
ISBN: 9781526156051
Format: Paperback
$45.99

Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekker's...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Tune with the Symphony of Nature in a Single Note: Birth of ""The Fair Youth of the Sonnets""

Shakespeare in Tune with the Symphony of Nature in a...

Author: Christopher Eriksson
ISBN: 9781954095557
Format: Paperback
$29.01

This introductory paper provides supportive evidence that the Shakespeare plays were written during periods of profound...  Read More >>

Lear, la gran imagen de la autoridad

Lear, la gran imagen de la autoridad

Author: Harold Bloom ,  Ángel-Luis Pujante
ISBN: 9788412408515
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Bloom escribe un retrato íntimo y profundamente compasivo de uno de los personajes más conmovedores de la literatura...  Read More >>

Cleopatra, soy fuego y aire

Cleopatra, soy fuego y aire

Author: Harold Bloom ,  Ángel-Luis Pujante
ISBN: 9788412408508
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Cleopatra, una de las mujeres por sí misma más fascinantes de la historia, se convirtió también, gracias a Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

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