Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Glass Door: An Adaptation of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

The Glass Door: An Adaptation of Hedda Gabler by Henrik...

Author: Henrik Ibsen ,  Stephen Evans
ISBN: 9781953725424
Format: Paperback
$26.37

In The Glass Door, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler has been adapted to make it easier for modern theaters to produce and for...  Read More >>

Returned to a Time of Loneliness

Returned to a Time of Loneliness

Author: Manal Khalil
ISBN: 9798267679961
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Returned To A Time Of Loneliness by Manal Khalil .. A literary collection of several literary thoughts that express...  Read More >>

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Author: Edmond Rostand ,  Debris Stevenson
ISBN: 9781350610835
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Simon Evans and Debris Stevenson bring new life to Edmond Rostand's...  Read More >>

As You Like It: Adapted by Stephen Evans

As You Like It: Adapted by Stephen Evans

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Stephen Evans
ISBN: 9781953725684
Format: Paperback
$26.37

William Shakespeare's As You Like It offers what may be his funniest, most complex, and most sophisticated presentation...  Read More >>

The Ghost Writer: A Comedy in Two Acts

The Ghost Writer: A Comedy in Two Acts

Author: Stephen Evans
ISBN: 9781953725752
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England

A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early...

Author: Indira Ghose
ISBN: 9780691269986
Format: Paperback
$57.99

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing...  Read More >>

The Leap

The Leap

Author: Gavin Kostick (Playwright, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350596276
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A new play from Fishamble's Gavin Kostick about a father and a daughter and the challenges of coming of age  Read More >>

Entertaining Ambiguities: Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Entertaining Ambiguities: Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral...

Author: Ralph J. Hexter
ISBN: 9781512828542
Format: Hardback
$173.00

Entertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language...  Read More >>

A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England

A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early...

Author: Indira Ghose
ISBN: 9780691269993
Format: Hardback
$180.00

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civility Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing...  Read More >>

Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in US Higher Education: Social Justice and Institutional Contexts

Situating Shakespeare Pedagogy in US Higher Education:...

Author: Marissa Greenberg (Associate Professor of English, University of New Mexico) ,  Elizabeth Williamson (Faculty Member and Academic Dean, The Evergreen State College)
ISBN: 9781399516655
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Moves away from offering a single methodology or approach to social justice teaching, providing practical models...  Read More >>

Unveiling Lady Scott: Walter Scott, French Influence and Transcultural Connections

Unveiling Lady Scott: Walter Scott, French Influence...

Author: Céline Sabiron (University of Lorraine)
ISBN: 9781009535335
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

The Universities and the Theatre

The Universities and the Theatre

Author: D. G. James
ISBN: 9781041128816
Format: Hardback
$179.00

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Shakespeare and Queer Studies

Shakespeare and Queer Studies

Author: Mario DiGangi (Professor of English, Professor of English, The City University of New York)
ISBN: 9780198888031
Format: Hardback
$118.95

Shakespeare and Queer Studies offers an accessible, comprehensive, and non-polemical account of queer approaches...  Read More >>

Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Film Adaptations

Critical Survey of Shakespeare's Film Adaptations

Author: Salem Press
ISBN: 9798891791466
Format: Hardback
$462.00

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Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Author: Kent Lehnhof (Chapman University, California)
ISBN: 9781009613873
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the...  Read More >>

Unveiling Lady Scott: Walter Scott, French Influence and Transcultural Connections

Unveiling Lady Scott: Walter Scott, French Influence...

Author: Céline Sabiron (University of Lorraine)
ISBN: 9781009535311
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

Neighbourly Relationships in Early Modern Drama: Staged Communities

Neighbourly Relationships in Early Modern Drama: Staged...

Author: Iman Sheeha
ISBN: 9781032896670
Format: Hardback
$294.00

The is the first book on neighbourly relationships in early modern English drama. Situating four unique, generically...  Read More >>

Notes from a Working-Class Playwright

Notes from a Working-Class Playwright

Author: Leo Butler
ISBN: 9781350429475
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Award-winning British playwright, Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience...  Read More >>

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare: Scenes of Thanking in Shakespeare’s Plays

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare: Scenes of Thanking...

Author: Chahra Beloufa
ISBN: 9781032727158
Format: Paperback
$111.24

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics...  Read More >>

Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance

Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development...

Author: Eirini Arvanitaki
ISBN: 9781032558318
Format: Paperback
$56.90

This book follows a close textual analysis approach and offers a discussion of love as portrayed in ‘Modern’ popular...  Read More >>

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages...

Author: Harold Bloom
ISBN: 9780063452046
Format: Paperback
$37.99

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Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama: Hospitable Globalities

Persian Paradigms in Early Modern English Drama: Hospitable...

Author: Sheiba Kian Kaufman (Assistant Professor of English, Saddleback College and Lecturer, University of California, Irvine)
ISBN: 9780198966722
Format: Hardback
$182.95

This book examines Persian characters in English drama (1561-1696) to animate a new narrative of transnational relationships...  Read More >>

Shaw – “The Chucker Out”: A Biographical Exposition and Critique

Shaw – “The Chucker Out”: A Biographical Exposition...

Author: Allan Chappelow
ISBN: 9781041116677
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Originally published in 1969, Shaw – “The Chucker Out” quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw...  Read More >>

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