Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Euripides: Fabulae Vol. II (Euripidis Fabulae Tomus II, Supplices, Electra, Hercules, Troades, Iphigenia in Tauris, Ion)

Euripides: Fabulae Vol. II (Euripidis Fabulae Tomus...

Author: James Diggle
ISBN: 9780198865612
Format: Hardback
$94.95

This is a second edition of the second volume of James Diggle's Oxford Classical Text of Euripides (1981). This...  Read More >>

KENREX

KENREX

Author: Jack Holden ,  Ed Stambollouian
ISBN: 9781350613126
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Part True Crime, part Western, KENREX is a gritty, gripping thrill ride through the American Midwest written by...  Read More >>

David Eldridge Trilogy: Beginning; Middle; End

David Eldridge Trilogy: Beginning; Middle; End

Author: David Eldridge
ISBN: 9781350609471
Format: Paperback
$39.99

David Eldridge's critically acclaimed trilogy exploring love and relationships from beginning, middle, to end.  Read More >>

The Druriad

The Druriad

Author: Anonymous
ISBN: 9781025254357
Format: Paperback
$36.83

""The Druriad"" is a biting 18th-century English verse satire, penned anonymously, that offers a vivid and critical...  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: 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 Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the Time of the Republic

The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the...

Author: W. Beare
ISBN: 9781032772776
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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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: 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 >>

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 >>

Shakespeare in Pakistan: Appropriating the Bard in Theatres, Cinema and Academia

Shakespeare in Pakistan: Appropriating the Bard in Theatres,...

Author: Zakia Resshid Ehsen
ISBN: 9781032976471
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Shakespeare in Pakistan provides an extensive examination of the appropriation of Shakespearean plays in Pakistan,...  Read More >>

The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation

The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance...

Author: Louise Geddes ,  Kathryn Vomero Santos
ISBN: 9781399524926
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare  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 >>

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

Author: David Eldridge ,  John le Carré
ISBN: 9781350618305
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The first ever stage adaptation of Le Carre's breakthrough novel about Cold War spies, re-imagined by award-winning...  Read More >>

Private View

Private View

Author: Jess Edwards
ISBN: 9781350607354
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Private View delves into intimacy, power, and identity to capture the beauty, intensity, and messiness of queer...  Read More >>

The Mystical Art of Shakespeare Volume III: The Meaning of Twelfth Night & Macbeth

The Mystical Art of Shakespeare Volume III: The Meaning...

Author: Kenneth K C Chan
ISBN: 9789819444595
Format: Paperback
$47.39

How Shakespeare meticulously crafted every part of Twelfth Night and Macbeth to convey a sage message for humanity...  Read More >>

Notes from a Working-Class Playwright

Notes from a Working-Class Playwright

Author: Leo Butler
ISBN: 9781350429468
Format: Paperback
$44.99

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

Closet Drama in Early Modern England: Theatre Without a Stage

Closet Drama in Early Modern England: Theatre Without...

Author: Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France) ,  Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (École normale Supérieure, France)
ISBN: 9781350455030
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A collection of critical scholarship on early modern closet plays between 1560-1670 that were performed in private...  Read More >>

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The State of Play

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The State of Play

Author: Professor Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania, USA) ,  Ann Thompson (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350449534
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This volume offers new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a...  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, composer and screenwriter Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage...  Read More >>

Baby Reindeer

Baby Reindeer

Author: Richard Gadd
ISBN: 9781350177932
Format: Paperback
$21.99

I looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in the joke. But she didn't. She just stared. I knew...  Read More >>

Dublin Gothic

Dublin Gothic

Author: Barbara Bergin
ISBN: 9781350620858
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Dublin Gothic follows three generations of residents in one Dublin house across a century of social upheaval.  Read More >>

Courteous Exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's Gentle Dialogues with Readers and Audiences

Courteous Exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's Gentle...

Author: Patricia Wareh
ISBN: 9781526195487
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers' and audiences'...  Read More >>

Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance

Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance

Author: Chloe Kathleen Preedy ,  Rachel Willie
ISBN: 9781526195524
Format: Paperback
$68.99

Thomas Nashe is typically regarded as an urban author and a University wit, but his writings are inflected and shaped...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Liminal Spaces: Contesting Authority on the Early Modern Stage

Shakespeare's Liminal Spaces: Contesting Authority on...

Author: Ben Haworth
ISBN: 9781526195531
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields,...  Read More >>

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

Author: Carol Chillington Rutter
ISBN: 9781526194701
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This books looks at Antony and Cleopatra in performance from 1606 to 2018, examining how actors, directors and designers...  Read More >>

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Author: Boika Sokolova ,  Kirilka Stavreva
ISBN: 9781526195401
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This book offers essential reading on a wide array of theatre and film productions of Shakespeare's play The Merchant...  Read More >>

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