Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Plays of William Godwin

The Plays of William Godwin

Author: David O'Shaughnessy
ISBN: 9780367876142
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Best known for ""Enquiry Concerning Political Justice"" (1793) and ""Caleb Williams"" (1794), William Godwin (1756-1836)...  Read More >>

Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays: History, Political Thought, and the Redefinition of Sovereignty

Staging Power in Tudor and Stuart English History Plays:...

Author: Kristin M.S. Bezio
ISBN: 9780367881146
Format: Paperback
$90.99

The first of its kind to situate the early modern debate on sovereignty within a 'popular culture' dramatic context,...  Read More >>

Translating Classical Plays: Collected Papers

Translating Classical Plays: Collected Papers

Author: J. Michael Walton
ISBN: 9780367875688
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Translating Classical Plays is a selection of edited papers by J. Michael Walton published and delivered between...  Read More >>

Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815

Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815...

Author: Susan Valladares
ISBN: 9780367880026
Format: Paperback
$90.99

In her study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis: Better than New

Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis: Better than...

Author: Matthew Biberman
ISBN: 9780367881887
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Through his study of the adaptations, Biberman pinpoints aspects of behavior and psychology that no longer ring...  Read More >>

A World Elsewhere

A World Elsewhere

Author: Steven Berkoff
ISBN: 9780367356873
Format: Paperback
$48.99

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Mojisola Adebayo: Plays Two: I Stand Corrected; Asara and the Sea-Monstress; Oranges and Stones; The Interrogation of Sandra Bland; STARS

Mojisola Adebayo: Plays Two: I Stand Corrected; Asara...

Author: Mojisola Adebayo (Author, Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781786828002
Format: Paperback
$36.99

The second collection of unflinching political work by Mojisola Adebayo, including the plays I Stand Corrected,...  Read More >>

One-Hour Shakespeare: The Early Comedies and Romances

One-Hour Shakespeare: The Early Comedies and Romances...

Author: Julie Fain Lawrence-Edsell
ISBN: 9780367206390
Format: Paperback
$81.99

The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically...  Read More >>

One-Hour Shakespeare: The Comedies

One-Hour Shakespeare: The Comedies

Author: Julie Fain Lawrence-Edsell
ISBN: 9780367206338
Format: Paperback
$81.99

The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically...  Read More >>

Staging America: Twenty-First-Century Dramatists

Staging America: Twenty-First-Century Dramatists

Author: Christopher Bigsby (University of East Anglia, UK)
ISBN: 9781350127548
Format: Hardback
$220.00

The book offers an account and analysis of the plays of eight leading American playwrights whose careers began in...  Read More >>

Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama

Mathematics and Late Elizabethan Drama

Author: Joseph Jarrett
ISBN: 9783030265656
Format: Hardback
$181.10

This book considers the influence that sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century mathematical thinking exerted...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative

Shakespeare, Jonson, and the Claims of the Performative...

Author: James Loxley ,  Mark Robson
ISBN: 9780367864880
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Shakespeare's Folly: Philosophy, Humanism, Critical Theory

Shakespeare's Folly: Philosophy, Humanism, Critical...

Author: Sam Hall
ISBN: 9780367877910
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse: Eleven Days at Newington Butts

Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse: Eleven Days at Newington...

Author: Laurie Johnson
ISBN: 9780367888831
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Branding Oscar Wilde

Branding Oscar Wilde

Author: Michael Patrick Gillespie
ISBN: 9780367889470
Format: Paperback
$90.99

The study focuses on how branding established important assumptions about Wilde and his work in his own mind and...  Read More >>

Women and Mobility on Shakespeare�s Stage: Migrant Mothers and Broken Homes

Women and Mobility on Shakespeare�s Stage: Migrant Mothers...

Author: Elizabeth Mazzola
ISBN: 9780367886936
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing—lost to disease or...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture: Appropriation and Inversion

Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture: Appropriation...

Author: Ailsa Ferguson
ISBN: 9780367867799
Format: Paperback
$90.99

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Moral Play and Counterpublic

Moral Play and Counterpublic

Author: Ineke Murakami
ISBN: 9780367865801
Format: Paperback
$90.99

In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles...  Read More >>

Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama: Economies of Vengeance

Family and the State in Early Modern Revenge Drama:...

Author: Chris McMahon
ISBN: 9780367866648
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book focuses on early modern revenge plays from the perspective of political theory and anthropology, paying...  Read More >>

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