Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre

Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and...
Author: Dr Philip Butterworth (University of Leeds, UK) ISBN: 9781350565432 Format: Hardback	$160.00
This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval... Read More >>

Lost Plays of Old Comedy

Lost Plays of Old Comedy
Author: Matthew C. Farmer (Haverford College, USA) ISBN: 9781350378926 Format: Hardback	$150.00
A study of the fragments of Old Comedy, arguing that these fragments greatly enlarge our understanding of the history... Read More >>

Nice Things: A Queer Love Story

Nice Things: A Queer Love Story
Author: Luke Hereford ISBN: 9781350633742 Format: Paperback	$22.99
A new electric play, NICE THINGS explores the relationship of a gay couple, in the midst of their comfortable years,... Read More >>

Twelfth Night, or What You Will The State of Play

Twelfth Night, or What You Will The State of Play
Author: Dr. Emma Smith (University of Oxford, UK) , Ann Thompson (King's College London, UK) ISBN: 9781350456402 Format: Hardback	$160.00
Offering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare’s Twelfth... Read More >>

Performance Pedagogy: Objects, Transfers, Formations

Performance Pedagogy: Objects, Transfers, Formations...
Author: Felipe Cervera , Diana Damian Martin ISBN: 9781350399303 Format: Hardback	$170.00
This open access book reframes performance and pedagogy through their shared ‘objects’ and lays the foundation for... Read More >>

The dreadful name of Henry Hills: The lives and afterlives of a seventeenth-century printer

The dreadful name of Henry Hills: The lives and afterlives...
Author: Michael Durrant ISBN: 9781526129390 Format: Hardback	$183.99
This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary... Read More >>

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes on the Early Modern Stage

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes...
Author: Nathan Pensky (Adjunct Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University) ISBN: 9781399556965 Format: Hardback	$219.00
Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.... Read More >>

Poetry and Politics in the Play Sir Thomas More

Poetry and Politics in the Play Sir Thomas More
Author: L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. ISBN: 9780813240176 Format: Hardback	$157.00
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Pale Fire, Nabokov’s Art and Shakespeare’s Magic

Pale Fire, Nabokov’s Art and Shakespeare’s Magic
Author: Gerard de Vries ISBN: 9781041276098 Format: Hardback	$144.87
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Centrestage: Essays on Theatre, Indian and Intercultural

Centrestage: Essays on Theatre, Indian and Intercultural...
Author: Ananda Lal ISBN: 9781803096025 Format: Paperback	$41.95
An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,... Read More >>

Perambulations: The Collected Works of Teatro Chicano de Laredo 2009–2012

Perambulations: The Collected Works of Teatro Chicano...
Author: Laurence Wensel ISBN: 9781041127154 Format: Paperback	$108.65
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What's in a name?: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare

What's in a name?: How historians know Shakespeare was...
Author: Susan Dwyer Amussen ISBN: 9781526191908 Format: Hardback	$69.99
In What's in a name?, historian Susan Amussen traces William Shakespeare's life through early modern England to... Read More >>

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Author: Judi Dench , Brendan O'Hea ISBN: 9781250386175 Format: Paperback	$52.80
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked through... Read More >>

Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare's Mathematical Life and Times

Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare's Mathematical Life...
Author: Rob Eastaway ISBN: 9798893031256 Format: Paperback	$42.11
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Perambulations: The Collected Works of Teatro Chicano de Laredo 2009–2012

Perambulations: The Collected Works of Teatro Chicano...
Author: Laurence Wensel ISBN: 9781041127161 Format: Hardback	$401.06
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If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in...
Author: Daniel Hahn ISBN: 9780593801666 Format: Hardback	$92.40
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Greek Tragedy and the Modern World

Greek Tragedy and the Modern World
Author: Leo Aylen ISBN: 9781032959320 Format: Paperback	$77.60
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Oscar Wilde: A Companion

Oscar Wilde: A Companion
Author: Heather Marcovitch ISBN: 9781476688695 Format: Paperback	$158.27
The author of short stories, children's literature, philosophical essays, plays, and The Picture of Dorian Gray,... Read More >>

""What Country, Friends, is This?"": Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile

""What Country, Friends, is This?"": Shakespeare and...
Author: Vanessa I. Corredera , Stephanie E. Chamberlain ISBN: 9780866988865 Format: Paperback	$79.07
An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare's plays and our world today. This compelling collection... Read More >>

""What Country, Friends, is This?"": Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile

""What Country, Friends, is This?"": Shakespeare and...
Author: Vanessa I. Corredera , Stephanie E. Chamberlain ISBN: 9780866988858 Format: Hardback	$237.47
An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare's plays and our world today. This compelling collection... Read More >>

Dramaturgas Chilenas: Plays by Chilean Female Writers in the Early 21st Century

Dramaturgas Chilenas: Plays by Chilean Female Writers...
Author: Coca Duarte (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Theatre, Santiago, Chile) , Anne García-Romero (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA) ISBN: 9781350549296 Format: Paperback	$49.99
A collection of five new, English-language translations of works by prominent and award-winning, female playwrights... Read More >>

Shakespeare’s First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives

Shakespeare’s First Folio 1623-2023: Text and Afterlives...
Author: Matthias Bauer (University of Tübingen, Germany) , Angelika Zirker (University of Tübingen, Germany) ISBN: 9781350436404 Format: Paperback	$59.99
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Dramaturgas Chilenas: Plays by Chilean Female Writers in the Early 21st Century

Dramaturgas Chilenas: Plays by Chilean Female Writers...
Author: Coca Duarte (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Theatre, Santiago, Chile) , Anne García-Romero (University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA) ISBN: 9781350549302 Format: Hardback	$150.00
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Jaja's African Hair Braiding

Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Author: Jocelyn Bioh ISBN: 9781350645813 Format: Paperback	$21.99
Welcome to Jaja’s! Written by award-winning playwright Jocelyn Bioh, this new comedy takes us into a bustling Harlem... Read More >>

Shakespeare's borrowed feathers: How early modern playwrights shaped the world's greatest writer

Shakespeare's borrowed feathers: How early modern playwrights...
Author: Darren Freebury-Jones ISBN: 9781526177346 Format: Paperback	$32.99
This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights... Read More >>

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