Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Tales From Shakespeare

Tales From Shakespeare

Author: Charles Lamb ,  Mary Lamb
ISBN: 9789353363239
Format: Paperback
$20.70

An introduction to Shakespeare's greatest plays. It brings to life the power of Hamlet and Othello, and the fun...  Read More >>

Othello

Othello

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781074788674
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Passion, deseit, and manipulation lie at the heart of Othello, a chilling tale of misplaced jealousy and wasted...  Read More >>

Love and Intrigue: A Bourgeois Tragedy

Love and Intrigue: A Bourgeois Tragedy

Author: Friedrich Schiller ,  Flora Kimmich
ISBN: 9781783747399
Format: Hardback
$90.43

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Theater as Metaphor

Theater as Metaphor

Author: Elena Penskaya ,  Joachim Küpper
ISBN: 9783110622027
Format: Hardback
$205.83

The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical,...  Read More >>

Coriolanus

Coriolanus

Author: Robert Ormsby
ISBN: 9781526139450
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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Staging the Revolution: Drama, Reinvention and History, 1647–72

Staging the Revolution: Drama, Reinvention and History,...

Author: Rachel Willie
ISBN: 9781526139566
Format: Paperback
$45.99

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Michael Kohlhaas

Michael Kohlhaas

Author: Heinrich Von Kleist
ISBN: 9783747768938
Format: Paperback
$50.46

A minor tax dispute intensifies explosively, until the eponymous hero finds the forces of an entire kingdom, and...  Read More >>

Medieval English Theatre 40

Medieval English Theatre 40

Author: Sarah Carpenter ,  Elisabeth Dutton
ISBN: 9781843845287
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Essays on aspects of early drama.  Read More >>

Beckett's Political Imagination

Beckett's Political Imagination

Author: Emilie Morin (University of York)
ISBN: 9781108406208
Format: Paperback
$82.80

Beckett's Political Imagination uncovers Beckett's lifelong engagement with political thought and political history,...  Read More >>

Honour Killing in Shakespeare

Honour Killing in Shakespeare

Author: Loraine Fletcher
ISBN: 9781910996263
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Shakespeare's men are ready to murder their wives for imagined betrayals, use women as pawns in their political...  Read More >>

Rutherford and Son

Rutherford and Son

Author: Githa Sowerby
ISBN: 9781350132771
Format: Paperback
$24.99

First staged in 1912 at the Court Theatre, to considerable acclaim, this play is set in the North Yorkshire home...  Read More >>

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama: Visual Culture, Play-Texts, and Performances

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama: Visual Culture,...

Author: Emanuel Stelzer
ISBN: 9781138348394
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Works of John Webster: Volume 4, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho, The Fair Maid of the Inn: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho, The Fair Maid of the Inn

The Works of John Webster: Volume 4, Sir Thomas Wyatt,...

Author: David Gunby (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand) ,  David Carnegie (Victoria University of Wellington)
ISBN: 9780521766012
Format: Hardback
$408.83

This is the fourth and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the complete works of John Webster. This final volume...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Hall

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Hall

Author: Professor Stuart Hampton-Reeves (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
ISBN: 9781472587077
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Peter Hall (1930–2017) is one of the most influential directors of Shakespeare’s plays in the modern age. Under...  Read More >>

Eating Shakespeare: Cultural Anthropophagy as Global Methodology

Eating Shakespeare: Cultural Anthropophagy as Global...

Author: Dr Anne Sophie Refskou (Aarhus University, Denmark) ,  Dr Marcel Alvaro de Amorim (Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
ISBN: 9781350035706
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Eating Shakespeare provides a constructive critical analysis of the issue of Shakespeare and globalization and revisits...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Global South: Stories of Oceans Crossed in Contemporary Adaptation

Shakespeare in the Global South: Stories of Oceans Crossed...

Author: Sandra Young (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781350035744
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays have brought into sharp focus the legacies of slavery, racism and...  Read More >>

Terence: The Girl from Andros

Terence: The Girl from Andros

Author: Peter Brown
ISBN: 9781789620115
Format: Paperback
$83.96

The Girl from Andros was the Roman comic playwright Terence’s first play and shows him as already a master dramatist....  Read More >>

Electra: A Gender Sensitive Study of the Plays Based on the Myth, 2d ed.

Electra: A Gender Sensitive Study of the Plays Based...

Author: Batya Casper
ISBN: 9781476676746
Format: Paperback
$145.20

Explores the influence of the Greek Electra myth on theatre, from Shakespeare's Hamlet - more than a thousand years...  Read More >>

Terence: The Girl from Andros

Terence: The Girl from Andros

Author: Peter Brown
ISBN: 9781789620108
Format: Hardback
$422.40

The Girl from Andros was the Roman comic playwright Terence’s first play and shows him as already a master dramatist....  Read More >>

Macbeth

Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780008329457
Format: Paperback
$21.09

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Conversations with Wilde: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts

Conversations with Wilde: A Fictional Dialogue Based...

Author: Merlin Holland ,  Simon Callow
ISBN: 9781786782304
Format: Hardback
$25.85

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The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781072933991
Format: Paperback
$14.52

An international team of scholars offers: modernized, easily accessible texts; ample but unobtrusive academic guidance;...  Read More >>

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