Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Theatricality Beyond Disciplines

Theatricality Beyond Disciplines

Author: Amin Erfani
ISBN: 9781835951736
Format: Paperback
$74.95

This transdisciplinary study expands on theories of theatricality beyond performance studies and into poetry, media...  Read More >>

Masquing Blackness in The Tempest: Shakespeare, Caliban, and Jonson

Masquing Blackness in The Tempest: Shakespeare, Caliban,...

Author: Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy
ISBN: 9781032794051
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized...  Read More >>

Revisiting the Past in Contemporary British Theatre: History, Memory and Performance

Revisiting the Past in Contemporary British Theatre:...

Author: Dilek Inan
ISBN: 9781350468047
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This volume brings together an international group of scholars to probe the intersections between history and memory,...  Read More >>

End

End

Author: David Eldridge
ISBN: 9781350609389
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Following the critically acclaimed Beginning and Middle, End is the final play in David Eldridge’s trilogy exploring...  Read More >>

Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism

Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism

Author: Alex Trustrum-Thomas (Visiting Researcher, Visiting Researcher, Karazin Kharkiv National University)
ISBN: 9780198971115
Format: Hardback
$182.95

Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism traces the development of fringe theatre in Russia over the course...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Disability Theory

Shakespeare and Disability Theory

Author: Genevieve Love (Colorado College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350424364
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Four Contemporary American Playwrights: Exploring Identity

Four Contemporary American Playwrights: Exploring Identity...

Author: Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781350538801
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The fourth in a series of books exploring the careers of 28 award-winning contemporary American playwrights, this...  Read More >>

Textile Shakespeare

Textile Shakespeare

Author: Hester Lees-Jeffries
ISBN: 9780198861133
Format: Hardback
$70.95

Textile Shakespeare explores the centrality of textiles to life in early modern England. Cloth and fabric displayed...  Read More >>

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida

Author: Stephen Purcell
ISBN: 9781526103574
Format: Hardback
$200.00

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Deciphering

Deciphering

Author: Curious Directive (Norfolk)
ISBN: 9781350606388
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Being a kid is full of things that don’t make sense, Elise. We’re born into something that started ages ago and...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Vs. Cthulhu: What Dreams May Come

Shakespeare Vs. Cthulhu: What Dreams May Come

Author: Jonathan Green ,  Heraldo Mussolini
ISBN: 9781838319649
Format: Paperback
$44.85

""We are such stuff as dreams are made on...""The year is 1613, and England's foremost playwright is committed to...  Read More >>

Gold in the Water

Gold in the Water

Author: Shane O'Reilly
ISBN: 9781350617117
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Gold in the Water is a fabulous, funny, and heartfelt new Irish musical from Shane O'Reilly with Paul Curley.  Read More >>

Big Ange

Big Ange

Author: Jamie Eastlake
ISBN: 9781350617544
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Big Ange, the local dinner lady, becomes a football manager to try and save a young boy from being radicalised....  Read More >>

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Author: Robert White (Emeritus Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia)
ISBN: 9781399516228
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career

Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career...

Author: Jeffrey Knapp (Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9781399543705
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer.  Read More >>

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524339
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

Repertoires of Slavery: Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810

Repertoires of Slavery: Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism...

Author: Sarah Adams
ISBN: 9781041185345
Format: Paperback
$111.24

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Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9781399524292
Format: Paperback
$57.99

A uniquely comprehensive, groundbreaking two-volume study of Loy's relationship to the human body and soul.  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Botanical Imagination

Shakespeare's Botanical Imagination

Author: Susan C. Staub
ISBN: 9781041185987
Format: Paperback
$111.24

This collection of essays moves plants to the foreground of analysis and brings together some of the rich and innovative...  Read More >>

The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature

The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature

Author: Elizabeth Gruber
ISBN: 9781041187745
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Through analysis of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Cavendish, the author reveals how this reconceptualized selfhood...  Read More >>

An Image of the Times: An Irreverent Companion to Ben Jonson’s Four Humours and the Art of Diplomacy

An Image of the Times: An Irreverent Companion to Ben...

Author: Nils-Johan Jørgensen
ISBN: 9781041175537
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Witty, learned excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed by works of Shakespeare, Ben...  Read More >>

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