Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23413 books were found.

The Duchess of Malfi: Large Print

The Duchess of Malfi: Large Print

Author: John Webster (Professor of Systematic Theology University of Aberdeen)
ISBN: 9798588919784
Format: Paperback
$23.73

The play is set in the court of Malfi (Amalfi), Italy, from 1504 to 1510. The recently widowed Duchess falls in...  Read More >>

Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality

Conversations: Classical and Renaissance Intertextuality...

Author: Syrithe Pugh
ISBN: 9781526152671
Format: Hardback
$183.99

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Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in Genre Film

Cowboy Hamlets and Zombie Romeos: Shakespeare in Genre...

Author: Kinga Földváry
ISBN: 9781526142092
Format: Hardback
$183.99

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Dan Michel's Ayenbite Of Inwyt Or Remorse Of Conscience (Volume I)

Dan Michel's Ayenbite Of Inwyt Or Remorse Of Conscience...

Author: Pamela Gradon
ISBN: 9789354307393
Format: Paperback
$104.46

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms...  Read More >>

Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy

Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, and...

Author: Lowell Gallagher ,  James Kearney
ISBN: 9781487507435
Format: Hardback
$115.00

This collection assembles essays on key words that link performance and philosophy in the works of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

Like a King: Casting Shakespeare's Histories for Citizens and Subjects

Like a King: Casting Shakespeare's Histories for Citizens...

Author: Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy
ISBN: 9781683932543
Format: Hardback
$308.88

Like a King argues that strategic casting positions Shakespeare’s histories as spaces for American political discourse....  Read More >>

Macbeth: Shakespeare At Home, Book 1

Macbeth: Shakespeare At Home, Book 1

Author: Carmen Khan ,  Jack Armstrong
ISBN: 9781736298800
Format: Hardback
$52.80

Macbeth is Book One in the eight-book series called Shakespeare At Home. Carmen Khan and Jack Armstrong, in...  Read More >>

Intentions Annotated

Intentions Annotated

Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9798593999092
Format: Paperback
$29.01

Intentions By Oscar Wilde was published in 1891 when Wilde was at the height of his form, these brilliant essays...  Read More >>

Intentions Annotated

Intentions Annotated

Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9798593607010
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Intentions By Oscar Wilde was published in 1891 when Wilde was at the height of his form, these brilliant essays...  Read More >>

Exiles

Exiles

Author: James Joyce ,  Keri Walsh (Associate Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Fordham University)
ISBN: 9780198800064
Format: Paperback
$21.95

James Joyce's only surviving play has divided Joyceans for a century. Illuminating the themes of performance that...  Read More >>

A Comprehensive Commentary of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS (Tome 1 of 3)

A Comprehensive Commentary of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS...

Author: Peter D Matthews
ISBN: 9780992285791
Format: Hardback
$330.00

Dr Peter D Matthews has discovered the real Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Italian sources used by the poet,...  Read More >>

The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence

The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence...

Author: Mathias Hanses
ISBN: 9780472132256
Format: Hardback
$224.40

A novel study of the popularity of Roman comedies well into the second century CE  Read More >>

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Language and Writing

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Language and Writing

Author: R.S. White (University of Western Australia, Australia) ,  Prof. Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350103887
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse...  Read More >>

Tragic Bodies: Edges of the Human in Greek Drama

Tragic Bodies: Edges of the Human in Greek Drama

Author: Professor Nancy Worman (Barnard College and Columbia University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350124363
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Winner of the PROSE Award (2022) for Classics This book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to...  Read More >>

Euripides: Electra

Euripides: Electra

Author: Professor Rush Rehm (Stanford University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350095670
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This new introduction to Euripides' fascinating interpretation of the story of Electra and her brother Orestes emphasizes...  Read More >>

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9798689912257
Format: Paperback
$34.29

The work of the world's greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars. This is the revised edition.  Read More >>

Overflow

Overflow

Author: Travis Alabanza (Author)
ISBN: 9781350240582
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Cornered into a flooding toilet cubicle and determined not to be rescued again, Rosie distracts herself with memories...  Read More >>

The Devil and the Vice in the English Dramatic Literature Before Shakespeare

The Devil and the Vice in the English Dramatic Literature...

Author: L. W. Cushman
ISBN: 9780367142278
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Originally published in 1900, this book was the first investigation of the devil and the Vice as dramatic figures....  Read More >>

The Old Law by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

The Old Law by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

Author: Catherine Shaw
ISBN: 9780367149178
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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John Marston's The Wonder of Women or The Tragedy of Sophonisba: A Critical Edition

John Marston's The Wonder of Women or The Tragedy of...

Author: William Kemp
ISBN: 9780367148959
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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A Critical Edition of I SIr John Oldcastle

A Critical Edition of I SIr John Oldcastle

Author: Jonathan Rittenhouse
ISBN: 9780367149222
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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A Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton's The Witch

A Critical Edition of Thomas Middleton's The Witch

Author: Thomas Middleton ,  Edward J. Esche
ISBN: 9780367184049
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Published in 1993: The first modern scholarly edition of the author's  play, not published until 1778. Sebastian...  Read More >>

The Fancies, Chaste and Noble

The Fancies, Chaste and Noble

Author: John Ford ,  Dominic J. Hart
ISBN: 9780367189587
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Published in 1985: The main plot portrays the bachelor Octavio, Marquis of Siena, and his establishment of his ""Bower...  Read More >>

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