Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23413 books were found.

The Merchant of Venice: Large Print

The Merchant of Venice: Large Print

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9798719278780
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Enter PORTIA with her waiting-woman NERISSA.PORTIA.By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great...  Read More >>

Lincoln and Shakespeare

Lincoln and Shakespeare

Author: Michael Anderegg
ISBN: 9780700632657
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Examines Abraham Lincoln's fascination with and knowledge of Shakespeare's plays. Michael Anderegg discusses Lincoln's...  Read More >>

Avant-Garde Nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928-1940

Avant-Garde Nationalism at the Dublin Gate Theatre,...

Author: Ruud van den Beuken
ISBN: 9780815636250
Format: Hardback
$133.10

In 1928, Hilton Edwards and Micheál mac Liammóir founded the Dublin Gate Theatre. In examining an extensive corpus...  Read More >>

Images of the Muslim Woman in Early Modern English Drama: Queens, Eves, and Furies

Images of the Muslim Woman in Early Modern English Drama:...

Author: Öz Öktem
ISBN: 9781793625229
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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Staging America: Twenty-First-Century Dramatists

Staging America: Twenty-First-Century Dramatists

Author: Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781350200920
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The book offers an account and analysis of the plays of eight leading American playwrights whose careers began in...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Storytelling: An Introduction to Genre, Character, and Technique

Shakespeare's Storytelling: An Introduction to Genre,...

Author: Nate Eastman
ISBN: 9783030629922
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play

Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play

Author: Lynn Enterline (Vanderbilt University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350197633
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama: Dialectical Theatre Today

Brecht and Post-1990s British Drama: Dialectical Theatre...

Author: Anja Hartl (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350172784
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Can theatre change the world? If so, how can it productively connect with social reality and foster spectatorial...  Read More >>

Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century

Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the...

Author: Howard Sherman (Independent scholar, USA)
ISBN: 9781350123441
Format: Hardback
$150.00

""80 years after it was written, more than 110 years after its actions take place, Our Town continues to assert...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and East Asia

Shakespeare and East Asia

Author: Alexa Alice Joubin (Professor of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and International Affairs, George Washington University)
ISBN: 9780198703570
Format: Paperback
$41.95

This volume explores post-1950s East Asian interpretations of Shakespeare and it analyses cinematic and dramatic...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and East Asia

Shakespeare and East Asia

Author: Alexa Alice Joubin (Professor of English, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Theatre, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and International Affairs, George Washington University)
ISBN: 9780198703563
Format: Hardback
$196.95

This volume explores post-1950s East Asian interpretations of Shakespeare and it analyses cinematic and dramatic...  Read More >>

Le Theatre Italien. Tome II - Volume I

Le Theatre Italien. Tome II - Volume I

Author: Evariste Gherardi ,  Isabelle Ligier-Degauque
ISBN: 9782406100065
Format: Paperback
$179.52

The second volume of Gherardi's Theatre italien comprises ten plays written by Delosme de Montchesnay, Fatouville,...  Read More >>

Le Theatre Italien. Tome II - Volume II

Le Theatre Italien. Tome II - Volume II

Author: Evariste Gherardi ,  Isabelle Ligier-Degauque
ISBN: 9782406107880
Format: Paperback
$139.92

The second volume of Gherardi's Theatre italien comprises ten plays written by Delosme de Montchesnay, Fatouville,...  Read More >>

Derrida | Benjamin: Two Plays for the Stage

Derrida | Benjamin: Two Plays for the Stage

Author: John Schad ,  Fred Dalmasso
ISBN: 9783030498061
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Benjamin, a volume that brings together two tragi-comic plays which mirror each other in a host of ways – above...  Read More >>

Le Theatre Italien. Tome II - Volume I

Le Theatre Italien. Tome II - Volume I

Author: Evariste Gherardi ,  Isabelle Ligier-Degauque
ISBN: 9782406100072
Format: Hardback
$316.80

The second volume of Gherardi's Theatre italien comprises ten plays written by Delosme de Montchesnay, Fatouville,...  Read More >>

Le Theatre Italien. Tome II - Volume II

Le Theatre Italien. Tome II - Volume II

Author: Evariste Gherardi ,  Isabelle Ligier-Degauque
ISBN: 9782406107897
Format: Hardback
$282.48

The second volume of Gherardi's Theatre italien comprises ten plays written by Delosme de Montchesnay, Fatouville,...  Read More >>

Tennessee Williams 101

Tennessee Williams 101

Author: Augustin J Correro
ISBN: 9781455625345
Format: Paperback
$44.75

A Tennessee Williams biography written for newcomers and old fans wanting to learn more about the playwright and...  Read More >>

The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes

The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's...

Author: Cristina Ionica
ISBN: 9783030349042
Format: Paperback
$181.10

The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett’s Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Scott Brick
ISBN: 9798228056619
Format: Audio
$110.85

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Jd Jackson
ISBN: 9798228056596
Format: Audio
$65.97

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

Author: Ato Quayson (Stanford University, California)
ISBN: 9781108830980
Format: Hardback
$93.15

This book focuses on a comparative reading of tragedy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to postcolonial examples...  Read More >>

Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man

Author: George Bernard Shaw ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9798888972526
Format: Hardback
$27.99

One of Shaw's most popular comedies, deflating romantic misconceptions of love and warfare. Reprinted from an authoritative...  Read More >>

A Glossary of Words and Phrases in the Oral Performing and Dramatic Literatures of the Jin, Yuan, and Ming

A Glossary of Words and Phrases in the Oral Performing...

Author: Dale Johnson
ISBN: 9780472038237
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The first aid of its kind in a Western language to reading a notoriously difficult body of dramatic works from 1200...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Author: William Shakespeare ,  A Full Cast
ISBN: 9781665064019
Format: Audio
$52.77

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