Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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National Theatre Connections 2021: Two Plays for Young People

National Theatre Connections 2021: Two Plays for Young...

Author: National Theatre ,  Miriam Battye
ISBN: 9781350233492
Format: Paperback
$29.99

It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context

Tom Stoppard in Context

Author: David Kornhaber (University of Texas, Austin) ,  James N. Loehlin (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781108420105
Format: Hardback
$240.64

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

Tales for Shakespeare: Stories That Inspired the Plays

Tales for Shakespeare: Stories That Inspired the Plays...

Author: Thomas G. Olsen
ISBN: 9781527571563
Format: Paperback
$163.55

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Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare

Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of...

Author: Professor Dustin W. Dixon (Assistant Professor of Classics, Grinnell College, USA) ,  Professor John S. Garrison (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781350098145
Format: Hardback
$190.00

The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies...  Read More >>

The Real Chekhov: An Introduction to Chekhov's Last Plays

The Real Chekhov: An Introduction to Chekhov's Last...

Author: David Magarshack
ISBN: 9780367726461
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This book, first published in 1972, discusses Chekhov’s last four plays. David Magarshack, the leading translator...  Read More >>

Illyria in Shakespeare’s England

Illyria in Shakespeare’s England

Author: Lea Puljcan Juric
ISBN: 9781683931782
Format: Paperback
$129.33

Illyria in Shakespeare’s England studies the eastern Adriatic region known as “Illyria” in five plays by Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater

Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early...

Author: Katherine Schaap Williams
ISBN: 9781501753503
Format: Hardback
$118.80

""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Welterschliessung: Die Romanische Renaissance-Epik Der Entdeckungs- Und Eroberungsfahrten ALS Ort Der Verhandlung Von Globalisierungsprozessen

Welterschliessung: Die Romanische Renaissance-Epik Der...

Author: Helga Thalhofer
ISBN: 9783770566297
Format: Paperback
$184.80

The study presupposes that processes of globalization did not only begin in the 20th century and concentrates on...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Textual Studies

Shakespeare and Textual Studies

Author: Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario) ,  Sonia Massai (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781009045490
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This cutting-edge and comprehensive collection gathers contributions from the leading specialists in the fields...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Experimental Psychologist

Shakespeare and the Experimental Psychologist

Author: Fathali M. Moghaddam (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
ISBN: 9781108491501
Format: Hardback
$256.16

The thought experiments in Shakespearean plays show how the roots of experimental psychology are found in early...  Read More >>

Shaw’s Ibsen: A Re-Appraisal

Shaw’s Ibsen: A Re-Appraisal

Author: Joan Templeton
ISBN: 9781349713165
Format: Paperback
$263.97

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Making Hamlet German: Forms of Translation and Recreation

Making Hamlet German: Forms of Translation and Recreation...

Author: Rebecca Hagen (School of Mass Communications Univ of South Florida President & Principle Designer at Sky Lake Studio)
ISBN: 9783506760067
Format: Hardback
$298.32

This book examines the retranslation of Hamlet in Germany in the 20th and the early 21st century. It adopts a comparative...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar: A Classic Illustrated Edition

Julius Caesar: A Classic Illustrated Edition

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9798539021351
Format: Paperback
$50.13

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Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England

Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in...

Author: Yasmin Arshad (Independent Scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781350248878
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several...  Read More >>

Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England

Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England...

Author: Dr Tiffany Stern (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9781350248854
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A cutting-edge collection bringing together major scholars of theatre and book history to explore the documents...  Read More >>

30 Monologues and Duologues for South Asian Actors: Celebrating 30 Years of Kali Theatre's South Asian Women Playwrights

30 Monologues and Duologues for South Asian Actors:...

Author: Kali Theatre ,  Kali Theatre
ISBN: 9781350203891
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds

Author: Isley Lynn (Author) ,  Rhum + Clay
ISBN: 9781350269934
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Adapted from War of the Worlds by Orson Welles.  Read More >>

Shakespeare Revolutionized: The First Hundred Years of J. Thomas Looney's Shakespeare Identified

Shakespeare Revolutionized: The First Hundred Years...

Author: James A Warren
ISBN: 9781733589437
Format: Paperback
$105.60

That William Shakespeare was the author of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and many other much-loved plays is the greatest...  Read More >>

Unusual Stories, Unusually Told: 7 Contemporary American Plays from Clubbed Thumb: U.S. Drag; Slavey; Dot; Baby Screams Miracle; Men on Boats; Of Government; Plano

Unusual Stories, Unusually Told: 7 Contemporary American...

Author: Michael Bulger ,  Maria Striar
ISBN: 9781350194199
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Unusual Stories, Unusually Told celebrates some of the boldest contemporary American voices with seven plays from...  Read More >>

As You Like It: Language and Writing

As You Like It: Language and Writing

Author: Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall (The Shakespeare Institute, UK) ,  Prof. Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350120426
Format: Hardback
$110.00

As You Like It: Language and Writing explores one of Shakespeare’s best-known comedies. It considers the literary...  Read More >>

The Tempest

The Tempest

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Kenneth Cavander
ISBN: 9780866986625
Format: Paperback
$26.27

About Sweet Cherry Easy Classics:Sweet Cherry Easy Classics adapts classic literature into stories for children,...  Read More >>

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