Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Shakespeare’s Strong Women: The Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness of His Fiercest Female Characters

Shakespeare’s Strong Women: The Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness...

Author: Royal Shakespeare Company
ISBN: 9780008809409
Format: Hardback
$32.99

'If I be waspish, best beware my sting'  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Notebook: The Life, Times and Works of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Notebook: The Life, Times and Works of...

Author: Sophie Collins
ISBN: 9781837051502
Format: Hardback
$39.99

An immersive account of William Shakespeare’s life and legacy presented in a lavishly illustrated journal-style...  Read More >>

Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare

Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare

Author: Greg Doran
ISBN: 9781526694379
Format: Hardback
$50.00

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Please Please Me

Please Please Me

Author: Tom Wright
ISBN: 9781350641488
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Please Please Me is the electrifying story of The Beatles’ meteoric rise and the hidden struggles of their beloved...  Read More >>

Shakespeare: The Journey into the Sacred

Shakespeare: The Journey into the Sacred

Author: Simon Sheridan
ISBN: 9781764230520
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Outlines a method of story interpretation inspired by the work Joseph Campbell which begins with the premise that...  Read More >>

Firewing

Firewing

Author: David A Pearson
ISBN: 9781350654747
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The debut play by INSPIRE graduate David Pearson, Firewing is a striking new play about connection, artistry and...  Read More >>

The Delirium Archive

The Delirium Archive

Author: Shane Mac an Bhaird
ISBN: 9781350654808
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The Delirium Archive is a world premiere by Shane Mac an Bhaird. It is about family, and the intangible love technology...  Read More >>

Tree-Becoming: Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's Stage

Tree-Becoming: Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's...

Author: Shannon Kelley
ISBN: 9781501787300
Format: Paperback
$80.99

Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification...  Read More >>

Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early Modern English Theater

Unfixable Forms: Disability, Performance, and the Early...

Author: Katherine Schaap Williams
ISBN: 9781501786846
Format: Paperback
$87.99

""This book analyzes physical disability in sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century English plays by Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony Kushner's Political Plays

Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony...

Author: Arnab Ray
ISBN: 9781666979015
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A study of four plays by Tony Kushner that are most political and pertinent for our time  Read More >>

Tree-Becoming: Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's Stage

Tree-Becoming: Gender, Race, and Trauma on Shakespeare's...

Author: Shannon Kelley
ISBN: 9781501787294
Format: Hardback
$335.00

Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification...  Read More >>

Queer Shakespeare: Desire, Sexuality and Embodiment

Queer Shakespeare: Desire, Sexuality and Embodiment...

Author: Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary’s University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350527478
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, this second edition...  Read More >>

Queer Shakespeare: Desire, Sexuality and Embodiment

Queer Shakespeare: Desire, Sexuality and Embodiment...

Author: Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary’s University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350527485
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, this second edition...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

Author: Rhodri Lewis
ISBN: 9780691246703
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Arden of Faversham: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Arden of Faversham: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Iman Sheeha (Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature, Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature, Brunel University of London)
ISBN: 9780192872685
Format: Paperback
$18.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

Henry VI, Part II: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part II: The New Oxford Shakespeare

Author: Christopher Marlowe ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780198915348
Format: Paperback
$18.95

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed...  Read More >>

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist...

Author: Matthew Ritger
ISBN: 9781512828993
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

Activating Hamlet

Activating Hamlet

Author: Eddie Burton
ISBN: 9781032964270
Format: Hardback
$144.87

This book tells a new story about Hamlet, exposing its key philosophical concerns are also significant factors in...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde: A Companion

Oscar Wilde: A Companion

Author: Heather Marcovitch
ISBN: 9781476688695
Format: Paperback
$158.27

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Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior Queen

Shakespeare's Margaret: The Dramatic Life of a Warrior...

Author: Charles O'Malley ,  Scott W. Stern
ISBN: 9781324076551
Format: Hardback
$52.95

Shakespeare's most vocal woman character, her historical inspiration and her reinventions in performance through...  Read More >>

Die Trachinierinnen: Tragodie

Die Trachinierinnen: Tragodie

Author: Kurt Steinmann ,  Anton Bierl
ISBN: 9783796554209
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Von Migration, Flucht, Exil, von der Macht des Eros, vom Liebesverrat und Schicksal der alternden Frau gegenuber...  Read More >>

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