Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Onstage and Offstage Worlds in Shakespeare's Plays

Onstage and Offstage Worlds in Shakespeare's Plays

Author: Anthony Brennan
ISBN: 9780367685270
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare: Being the Text of the First (1794) Edition Revised by the Author and Never Previously Published

A Specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare: Being the...

Author: Walter Whiter ,  Alan Over
ISBN: 9780367695309
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After

The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After

Author: Gordon McMullan (King's College London, UK) ,  Jonathan Hope
ISBN: 9780367680190
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1992, this title provides nine readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare’s late plays to the Interregnum....  Read More >>

Public and Private Man in Shakespeare

Public and Private Man in Shakespeare

Author: J. M. Gregson
ISBN: 9780367684181
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation

Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation...

Author: Louise Geddes ,  Valerie Fazel
ISBN: 9781474481397
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Drawing on new materialism and object-oriented ontology, Variable Objects proposes that Shakespeare is a vibrant...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Tragedy

Shakespeare and Tragedy

Author: John Bayley
ISBN: 9780367708160
Format: Hardback
$231.00

In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida and Timon...  Read More >>

The Broadview Anthology of Tudor Drama

The Broadview Anthology of Tudor Drama

Author: Alan Stewart
ISBN: 9781554814114
Format: Paperback
$201.96

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(Re)defining gender in early modern English drama: Power, sexualities and ideologies in text and performance

(Re)defining gender in early modern English drama: Power,...

Author: María José Álvarez-Faedo ,  Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez
ISBN: 9783034342520
Format: Paperback
$138.17

This book studies dramatic texts, dedications, autobiographies, adaptations and performative practices, to prove...  Read More >>

The Jew of Malta

The Jew of Malta

Author: Christopher Marlowe
ISBN: 9798746046246
Format: Paperback
$15.81

A new critical introduction and very extensive appendices on the major philosophical and political texts of the...  Read More >>

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Aristophanes' Clouds: A Commentary

Author: S. Douglas Olson
ISBN: 9780472074778
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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

Two Nineteenth-Century Plays from Trinidad: Martial Law in Trinidad and Past and Present

Two Nineteenth-Century Plays from Trinidad: Martial...

Author: Bridget Brereton ,  Lise Winer
ISBN: 9789766408336
Format: Paperback
$45.10

This fourth volume in the Caribbean Heritage series presents the texts of two short plays, first written in Trinidad...  Read More >>

Vindicating Shakespeare: A Theater Director's Study of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

Vindicating Shakespeare: A Theater Director's Study...

Author: Stephen Byk
ISBN: 9780578871363
Format: Paperback
$44.75

""A thorough and insightful analysis of Shakespeare's play. A must-read for professionals and students alike.""...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Audiences

Shakespeare’s Audiences

Author: Matteo Pangallo ,  Peter Kirwan
ISBN: 9780367715465
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time

Loss and the Literary Culture of Shakespeare’s Time...

Author: Roslyn L. Knutson ,  David McInnis
ISBN: 9783030368692
Format: Paperback
$316.77

As early modernists with an interest in the literary culture of Shakespeare’s time, we work in a field that contains...  Read More >>

Andre Gide Et Le Theatre: Un Parcours a Retracer

Andre Gide Et Le Theatre: Un Parcours a Retracer

Author: Vincenzo Mazza
ISBN: 9782406109655
Format: Paperback
$129.36

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The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781662090349
Format: Audio
$105.57

One of the most popular plays of all time is brought to life by an exquisite cast.  Read More >>

The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781662090622
Format: Audio
$79.17

One of the most popular plays of all time is brought to life by an exquisite cast.  Read More >>

Foxes

Foxes

Author: Dexter Flanders
ISBN: 9781350183957
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Think how many others there are like me, hiding in the shadows, operating in the night like foxes, for fear of rejection...  Read More >>

Angela

Angela

Author: Mark Ravenhill
ISBN: 9781350255593
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Mark Ravenhill's autobiographical radio play explores the way culture, high and low, impacted both his mother’s...  Read More >>

Lung Water

Lung Water

Author: Jacob Hodgkinson
ISBN: 9781350171169
Format: Paperback
$24.99

You only ever cared for her. Ever. And I loved her too. I loved her so fucking much. But I wanted to cause you pain....  Read More >>

Wolf Play

Wolf Play

Author: Hansol Jung (Author)
ISBN: 9781350185067
Format: Paperback
$24.99

""An experimental and tear-jerking exploration of family, republished in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series""--...  Read More >>

Notes on the Sonnets

Notes on the Sonnets

Author: Luke Kennard
ISBN: 9781908058812
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house...  Read More >>

Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to Contemporary Performance

Theatres of Contagion: Transmitting Early Modern to...

Author: Fintan Walsh (Author, Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350215511
Format: Paperback
$64.99

These essays examine some of the ways in which theatre has represented, interrogated or been implicated in the transmission...  Read More >>

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