Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical Perspectives

James Shirley and Early Modern Theatre: New Critical...

Author: Barbara Ravelhofer
ISBN: 9780367736781
Format: Paperback
$90.99

James Shirley was the last great dramatist of the English Renaissance, shining out among other luminaries such as...  Read More >>

Restoration Staging, 1660-74

Restoration Staging, 1660-74

Author: Tim Keenan
ISBN: 9780367736866
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Arguing that early Restoration theatre and drama is misunderstood, owing to critical and theatrical neglect, this...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen

Author: Russell Jackson (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781108421164
Format: Hardback
$222.53

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen offers critical introductions by a team of distinguished scholars...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde and the Art of Lying

Oscar Wilde and the Art of Lying

Author: D.D. Desjardins
ISBN: 9781527562233
Format: Paperback
$150.35

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Intentions Annotated

Intentions Annotated

Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9798595379694
Format: Paperback
$31.81

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

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 >>

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