Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature: Desire, Status, Biopolitics

Rogue Sexuality in Early Modern English Literature:...

Author: Ari Friedlander (Associate Professor of English, University of Mississippi)
ISBN: 9780198967040
Format: Paperback
$58.95

Discusses the way that the figure of the rogue persistently conflates sexual and social deviance, and argues that...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Bloomsbury

Shakespeare in Bloomsbury

Author: Marjorie Garber
ISBN: 9780300281880
Format: Paperback
$34.95

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Performing Girls and Women: Medieval to Early Modern and Beyond

Performing Girls and Women: Medieval to Early Modern...

Author: Deanne Williams
ISBN: 9789048562558
Format: Hardback
$331.20

This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with...  Read More >>

Jokes in Greek Comedy: From Puns to Poetics

Jokes in Greek Comedy: From Puns to Poetics

Author: Dr Naomi Scott (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781350248496
Format: Paperback
$59.99

""In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever 'just a joke'. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve,...  Read More >>

Not Beckett, The Plays: Female and Non-binary Irish Playwrights Respond

Not Beckett, The Plays: Female and Non-binary Irish...

Author: Olwen Fouéré ,  Jennifer Barclay
ISBN: 9781350547261
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Five new plays by femme-identifying and non-binary international writers of Irish heritage in response to Samuel...  Read More >>

Medieval English Theatre 46

Medieval English Theatre 46

Author: Meg Twycross ,  Sarah Carpenter
ISBN: 9781843847519
Format: Paperback
$90.56

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Jack Gelber: Consider This

Jack Gelber: Consider This

Author: John Patrick Bray
ISBN: 9781032868394
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores the works of Humanist/Absurdist American playwright Jack Gelber (1932-2003), whose groundbreaking,...  Read More >>

Theater after Film

Theater after Film

Author: Professor Martin Harries
ISBN: 9780226838717
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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The Constant Wife

The Constant Wife

Author: W. Somerset Maugham ,  Laura Wade (Author)
ISBN: 9781350584594
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Laura Wade's re-imagining of Somerset Maugham's subversive comedy about a 1920s heroine with a decidedly modern...  Read More >>

Outpatient

Outpatient

Author: Harriet Madeley
ISBN: 9781350583849
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Fresh from its award-winning run at the Edinburgh Festival, Crowded Room and writer-performer Harriet Madeley are...  Read More >>

The Fifth Step

The Fifth Step

Author: David Ireland
ISBN: 9781350574069
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Directed intimately in-the-round by Finn den Hertog, The Fifth Step is a provocative, entertaining and subversively...  Read More >>

Mirrored Sublimation: Essays on the Early Work of Knut Hamsun

Mirrored Sublimation: Essays on the Early Work of Knut...

Author: Lisa Yamasaki
ISBN: 9781680535730
Format: Hardback
$323.00

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare

Author: Kelsey Ridge
ISBN: 9781032612225
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Shakespeare combines literary criticism, performance studies, psychiatric literature,...  Read More >>

Press

Press

Author: Nathaniel Brimmer-Beller
ISBN: 9781350582101
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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Irishtown

Irishtown

Author: Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
ISBN: 9781350574311
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Local

Local

Author: Liz Richardson
ISBN: 9781350583665
Format: Paperback
$21.99

In Local, Liz takes the audience on a journey through the rural landscape and environment of her home, reconnecting...  Read More >>

54.60 Africa

54.60 Africa

Author: Femi Elufowoju jr, OBE
ISBN: 9781350589315
Format: Paperback
$28.44

54.60 Africa is an exhilarating, cross-cultural pan-African encounter inspired by the travels of its author who...  Read More >>

The Shakespeare Ladies Club: The Forgotten Women Who Rescued the Bawdy Bard

The Shakespeare Ladies Club: The Forgotten Women Who...

Author: Christine and Jonathan Hainsworth ,  Jonathan Ward-Agius
ISBN: 9781398127449
Format: Hardback
$64.69

The story of the women who saved William Shakespeare from obscurity.  Read More >>

The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition...

Author: William Baker (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA) ,  Professor Brian Vickers (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350398979
Format: Hardback
$350.00

An updated edition of collected criticism offering a unique account of the critical history of one of Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Dostoevsky's Hamlet in Nineteenth-Century Russia: The Paradox of Subjectivity

Dostoevsky's Hamlet in Nineteenth-Century Russia: The...

Author: Petra Bjelica (University of Verona, Italy)
ISBN: 9781350450929
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Dostoevsky uses Hamlet to address some of the most important problems in Russian culture in the second half of the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Survey 75: Othello

Shakespeare Survey 75: Othello

Author: Emma Smith (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781009245838
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Volume 75 is 'Othello'. The...  Read More >>

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