Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23444 books were found.

The First English Translations of Molière: Drama in Flux 1663-1732

The First English Translations of Molière: Drama in...

Author: Suzanne Jones
ISBN: 9781781888391
Format: Hardback
$207.00

As the most successful comic dramatist at the court of Louis XIV, Molière was certainly known to his London counterparts....  Read More >>

The commedia dell'arte: a study in Italian popular comedy

The commedia dell'arte: a study in Italian popular comedy...

Author: Winifred Smith
ISBN: 9789354174780
Format: Paperback
$73.97

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The Art of Drama, Volume 5: Romeo and Juliet

The Art of Drama, Volume 5: Romeo and Juliet

Author: Johanna Harrison ,  Jennifer Webb
ISBN: 9781913577025
Format: Paperback
$41.55

The latest book in our The Art of Drama series focuses on one of the most famous tragic love stories ever written,...  Read More >>

Othello

Othello

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9798558550849
Format: Paperback
$60.69

This Norton Critical Edition includes the First Folio text, along with an introduction, explanatory footnotes, note...  Read More >>

Three prose versions of the Secreta secretorum (Volume I)

Three prose versions of the Secreta secretorum (Volume...

Author: Robert Steele ,  T Henderson
ISBN: 9789354176357
Format: Paperback
$71.81

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The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9798558692587
Format: Paperback
$23.63

A revised edition of the comedy covers the playwright's life and theater, an introduction to the play, sources,...  Read More >>

Howard Barker: Plays Eleven: 1870; Dans le Palais Je; Deep Wives / Shallow Animals; Knowledge and a Girl

Howard Barker: Plays Eleven: 1870; Dans le Palais Je;...

Author: Howard Barker (Author)
ISBN: 9781786829696
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The latest collection of plays from one of the most celebrated, influential and studied playwrights in the English-speaking...  Read More >>

Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe: Western Anti-Monarchism, The Earl of Essex Challenge, and Political Stagecraft

Majesty and the Masses in Shakespeare and Marlowe: Western...

Author: Chris Fitter
ISBN: 9780367482084
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Founded on an unprecedented and wide-ranging study of anti-monarchist thought, Majesty and the Masses presents a...  Read More >>

Three prose versions of the Secreta secretorum (Volume I)

Three prose versions of the Secreta secretorum (Volume...

Author: Robert Steele ,  T Henderson
ISBN: 9789354170683
Format: Hardback
$98.26

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Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Change and Exchange

Economies of Literature and Knowledge in Early Modern...

Author: Subha Mukherji ,  Dunstan Roberts
ISBN: 9783030376505
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Placing ‘literature’ at the centre of Renaissance economic knowledge, this book offers a distinct intervention in...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Biography

Shakespeare and Biography

Author: Katherine Scheil ,  Graham Holderness
ISBN: 9781789209037
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Shakespeare & Biography offers a fresh look at the biographical questions connected with the famous playwright’s...  Read More >>

First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590-1790

First Readers of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, 1590-1790

Author: Faith D. Acker
ISBN: 9780367501365
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9798552328086
Format: Paperback
$26.27

The version of Measure For Measure and the corresponding footnotes that appear in this volume were originally published...  Read More >>

The Plays of Robert Browning

The Plays of Robert Browning

Author: Thomas J. Collins ,  Richard J. Shroyer
ISBN: 9780367140250
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Laura Wade Plays 2: Posh; Home, I'm Darling; The Watsons; Kreutzer vs. Kreutzer

Laura Wade Plays 2: Posh; Home, I'm Darling; The Watsons;...

Author: Laura Wade (Author)
ISBN: 9781350189096
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The second collection of work by Olivier award-winning British playwright Laura Wade, bursting with her trademark...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare's First Folio in Modern Type

William Shakespeare's First Folio in Modern Type

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781434104533
Format: Hardback
$166.29

The First Folio is a collection of Shakespeare's plays published in 1623, now published in modern type for better...  Read More >>

Othello

Othello

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9798551447191
Format: Paperback
$26.27

Iago is bitter over the loss of an important job promotion. How can he get revenge? Aha! Nothing could hurt Othello...  Read More >>

The Lyon Terence: Its Tradition and Legacy

The Lyon Terence: Its Tradition and Legacy

Author: Giulia Torello-Hill ,  Andrew J. Turner
ISBN: 9789004362451
Format: Hardback
$401.28

An interdisciplinary approach to establish the significance of the first illustrated edition of the plays of Terence,...  Read More >>

Staging Favorites: Theatrical Representations of Political Favoritism in the Early Modern Courts of Spain, France, and England

Staging Favorites: Theatrical Representations of Political...

Author: Francisco Gómez Martos
ISBN: 9780367538415
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Staging Favorites explores theatrical representations of royal favorites in Spanish, French, and English dramatic...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War

Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood,...

Author: Patrick Gray
ISBN: 9781474427463
Format: Paperback
$67.99

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Studying Shakespeare Adaptation: From Restoration Theatre to YouTube

Studying Shakespeare Adaptation: From Restoration Theatre...

Author: Dr. Pamela Bickley (The English Association) ,  Dr. Jenny Stevens (Open University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350068643
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Shakespeare’s plays have long been open to reimagining and reinterpretation, from John Fletcher’s riposte to The...  Read More >>

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