Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter

Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter

Author: Ewan Fernie (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781107577251
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Shakespeare for Freedom presents a powerful, plausible and political argument for Shakespeare's meaning and value....  Read More >>

Shakespeare Survey 71: Volume 71: Re-Creating Shakespeare

Shakespeare Survey 71: Volume 71: Re-Creating Shakespeare...

Author: Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
ISBN: 9781108456722
Format: Paperback
$64.66

The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The theme is 'Re-Creating...  Read More >>

Chaucer and the Subversion of Form

Chaucer and the Subversion of Form

Author: Thomas A. Prendergast (College of Wooster, Ohio) ,  Jessica Rosenfeld (Washington University, St Louis)
ISBN: 9781316644126
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This exploration of literary form in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer delivers a timely and fresh approach to the study...  Read More >>

The Sacred Wood

The Sacred Wood

Author: T. S. Eliot ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9781513279695
Format: Paperback
$12.99

This gave my essays a kind of urgency, the warmth of appeal of the advocate, which my later, more detached and I...  Read More >>

The Ever-Fixed Mark: Shakespeare on Love, Women, and Human Nature

The Ever-Fixed Mark: Shakespeare on Love, Women, and...

Author: Thomas Brackshaw
ISBN: 9781736752203
Format: Paperback
$45.95

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Shakespeare, Music and Performance

Shakespeare, Music and Performance

Author: Bill Barclay ,  David Lindley (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9781316505014
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This collection of essays traces the different uses of music in Shakespearean performance in theatre and film from...  Read More >>

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Author: S. Douglas Olson
ISBN: 9780472054770
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A new text and commentary on one of Aristophanes' greatest and most influential plays.  Read More >>

As You Like It

As You Like It

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Michael Hattaway (University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9781108838979
Format: Hardback
$163.01

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Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England

Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England...

Author: Will Rogers (Tommy and Mary Barham Endowed Professor of English, University of Louisiana, Monroe)
ISBN: 9781641892544
Format: Hardback
$340.56

A ground-breaking study of old age impairments in Middle English literature and their function as prosthetic additions,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Theology, and the Unstaged God

Shakespeare, Theology, and the Unstaged God

Author: Anthony D. Baker
ISBN: 9780367784836
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Located within the turn to religion in Shakespeare studies, this book goes beyond the claim that Shakespeare simply...  Read More >>

The Self-Centred Art: Ben Jonson's Parts in Performance

The Self-Centred Art: Ben Jonson's Parts in Performance...

Author: Jakub Boguszak
ISBN: 9780367515621
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Returning to Shakespeare

Returning to Shakespeare

Author: Brian Vickers
ISBN: 9780367682354
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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What's in Shakespeare's Names

What's in Shakespeare's Names

Author: Murray J. Levith
ISBN: 9780367681517
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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Reflections From Shakespeare: A Series of Lectures

Reflections From Shakespeare: A Series of Lectures

Author: Lena Ashwell ,  Roger Pocock
ISBN: 9780367680923
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1926, this title was edited from a series of lectures the author gave to raise money for her...  Read More >>

Human Conflict in Shakespeare

Human Conflict in Shakespeare

Author: S. C. Boorman
ISBN: 9780367682439
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Conflict is at the heart of much of Shakespeare’s drama. First published in 1987, Boorman makes this ‘warfare of...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Other Language

Shakespeare's Other Language

Author: Ruth Nevo
ISBN: 9780367694876
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Shakespeare’s last plays, the tragicomic Romances, are notoriously strange plays, riddled with fabulous events and...  Read More >>

The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays

The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Author: Vivian Thomas
ISBN: 9780367681289
Format: Hardback
$231.00

What is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? First published in 1987, the key to this new synthesis...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Roman Worlds

Shakespeare’s Roman Worlds

Author: Vivian Thomas
ISBN: 9780367693039
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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""Fanned and Winnowed Opinions"": Shakespearean Essays Presented to Harold Jenkins

""Fanned and Winnowed Opinions"": Shakespearean Essays...

Author: John W. Mahon ,  Thomas A. Pendleton
ISBN: 9780367682163
Format: Hardback
$273.00

First published in 1987, this title celebrates the scholarship of Professor Harold Jenkins, one of this century’s...  Read More >>

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