Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23451 books were found.

Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary Theory and Criticism

Landscape and the Spaces of Metaphor in Ancient Literary...

Author: Nancy Worman (Barnard College, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781108814478
Format: Paperback
$98.32

Explores a previously uncharted area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how metaphors of place...  Read More >>

Performing Nerves: Four Plays, Four Essays, On Hysteria

Performing Nerves: Four Plays, Four Essays, On Hysteria...

Author: Anna Furse
ISBN: 9781138389366
Format: Paperback
$81.99

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The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights: 1970 - 2020: Gun, Spell #7, The Jacksonian, The Baltimore Waltz, In the Blood, Intimate Apparel

The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights:...

Author: Professor Emeritus Wesley Brown (Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University USA) ,  Associate Professor Aimée K. Michel (Associate Professor of Theater, Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA)
ISBN: 9781350068735
Format: Hardback
$180.00

""In this exciting new anthology, Wesley Brown and Aimée K. Michel bring together six wonderfully teachable plays...  Read More >>

World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices

World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories,...

Author: Mireia Aragay ,  Paola Botham
ISBN: 9789004425804
Format: Hardback
$364.32

World Political Theatre and Performance brings together scholars and practitioners from multiple locations to analyse...  Read More >>

Analyse du  Malade imaginaire: Analyse de la comedie de Moliere

Analyse du Malade imaginaire: Analyse de la comedie...

Author: Gloria Lauzanne
ISBN: 9781791693169
Format: Paperback
$20.78

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The life and death of King Richard II

The life and death of King Richard II

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9785519707336
Format: Hardback
$75.01

From the text of the rev. Alexander Dyce`s second edition This book, The life and death of King Richard II , by...  Read More >>

When you see me, you know me. A chronicle-history

When you see me, you know me. A chronicle-history

Author: Samuel Rowley ,  Karl Elze
ISBN: 9789354021480
Format: Paperback
$57.08

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Samurai Shakespeare: Past and Future Japan in Theatre and Film

Samurai Shakespeare: Past and Future Japan in Theatre...

Author: Graham Holderness
ISBN: 9781913087197
Format: Undefined
$168.19

This highly original new book by a leading Shakespeare expert and cultural critic argues controversially that the...  Read More >>

The Iceman Cometh

The Iceman Cometh

Author: Eugene O'Neill ,  William Davies King
ISBN: 9780300211856
Format: Paperback
$58.08

A critical edition of O'Neill's most complex and difficult play, designed for student readers and performers  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of their Similarities of Thought and Expression

Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of...

Author: Henry Green
ISBN: 9781536177893
Format: Hardback
$711.54

Few only are the remarks absolutely needed by way of introduction to a work which within itself sufficiently explains...  Read More >>

Universal Grammar of Story(R): An Author's Guide to Writing for the Soul of the World

Universal Grammar of Story(R): An Author's Guide to...

Author: Hazel Denhart ,  Rick Denhart
ISBN: 9781936262014
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Journey to the creative center of our collective unconscious, awaken the storyteller archetype, and craft profound...  Read More >>

Le Soleil Noir Du Sens: L'Oxymore Dans La Poésie Espagnole de l'Âge d'Argent (1916-1936)

Le Soleil Noir Du Sens: L'Oxymore Dans La Poésie Espagnole...

Author: Zoraida Carandell
ISBN: 9782807613812
Format: Paperback
$113.85

Consacré à l'oxymore dans la poésie espagnole des années 1916-1936, ce livre est un essai d'histoire littéraire...  Read More >>

Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity

Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte...

Author: Tana Wojczuk ,  Tavia Gilbert
ISBN: 9781797114002
Format: Audio
$79.17

Illuminating and enthralling biography of 19th-century queer actress Charlotte Cushman.  Read More >>

Ophelia: Shakespeare and Gender in Contemporary Spain

Ophelia: Shakespeare and Gender in Contemporary Spain...

Author: Sharon Keefe Ugalde
ISBN: 9781786835987
Format: Paperback
$124.00

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The Tragedy of King Lear

The Tragedy of King Lear

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Lois Potter
ISBN: 9781316646977
Format: Paperback
$25.88

For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account...  Read More >>

Othello

Othello

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9798653626265
Format: Paperback
$24.84

Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate...  Read More >>

Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre

Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre

Author: Dr Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos (Emeritus Professor of Irish Studies, Staffordshire University, UK) ,  Professor Shaun Richards (Professional Research Fellow, St Mary's University College, UK)
ISBN: 9781350094536
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Contemporary Irish Documentary Theatre is the first anthology of Irish documentary drama. It features five challenging...  Read More >>

Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England

Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early...

Author: Dr Valerie Wayne (University of Hawai‘i, USA)
ISBN: 9781350110014
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This collection reveals the labours of women printers and publishers, authors and editors, owners and readers in...  Read More >>

The Theatre of Christopher Durang

The Theatre of Christopher Durang

Author: Miriam Chirico (Eastern Connecticut State University, USA) ,  Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781474288927
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The Theatre of Christopher Durang considers the works of one of the foremost comedic writers for the American stage....  Read More >>

The Merchant of Venice: The State of Play

The Merchant of Venice: The State of Play

Author: M. Lindsay Kaplan (Georgetown University, USA) ,  Ann Thompson (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350110229
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays, whose elements resonate even more profoundly...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed Space

Samuel Beckett in Confinement: The Politics of Closed...

Author: Dr James Little (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
ISBN: 9781350112322
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre – from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images...  Read More >>

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