Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Authenticity on the Postmodern Stage: Betrayal, The Real Thing and Closer

Authenticity on the Postmodern Stage: Betrayal, The...

Author: Lida Krüger
ISBN: 9781776150175
Format: Paperback
$40.70

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Volume 31

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, Volume 31...

Author: S.P. Cerasano
ISBN: 9780838644881
Format: Hardback
$222.53

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The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship

The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere,...

Author: Michael Wainwright
ISBN: 9783030070038
Format: Paperback
$171.57

The Rational Shakespeare: Peter Ramus, Edward de Vere, and the Question of Authorship examines William Shakespeare’s...  Read More >>

The Plays of Margaret Drabble: A Critical Edition

The Plays of Margaret Drabble: A Critical Edition

Author: José Francisco Fernández
ISBN: 9780815636052
Format: Hardback
$97.90

Margaret Drabble's long affiliation with the theatrical world inspired her to experiment with the dramatic form....  Read More >>

The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer

The Theatre of Tom Murphy: Playwright Adventurer

Author: Professor Nicholas Grene (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) ,  Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781472568106
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding...  Read More >>

The White Devil

The White Devil

Author: Benedict S. Robinson (Stony Brook University, USA) ,  John Webster
ISBN: 9781904271741
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A major new edition of Webster's dark and morally complex tragedy.  Read More >>

The Sonnets: The State of Play

The Sonnets: The State of Play

Author: Dr. Hannah Crawforth (Lecturer, King's College London, UK) ,  Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350094857
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Shakespeare's Sonnets both generate and demonstrate many of today's most pressing debates about Shakespeare and...  Read More >>

The Shakespeare Hut: A Story of Memory, Performance and Identity, 1916-1923

The Shakespeare Hut: A Story of Memory, Performance...

Author: Ailsa Grant Ferguson (Brighton University, UK)
ISBN: 9781474295840
Format: Hardback
$190.00

This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers...  Read More >>

As You Like It

As You Like It

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781794659506
Format: Paperback
$44.85

The version of As you like it and the corresponding footnotes that appear in this volume were originally published...  Read More >>

Dear Elizabeth

Dear Elizabeth

Author: Sarah Ruhl
ISBN: 9781786827265
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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Capire e analizzare Il partito preso delle cose: Analisi delle principali poesie di Francis Ponge

Capire e analizzare Il partito preso delle cose: Analisi...

Author: Gloria Lauzanne
ISBN: 9781794602977
Format: Paperback
$17.72

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Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical...

Author: Estella Ciobanu
ISBN: 9783030081317
Format: Paperback
$171.57

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and...  Read More >>

Dramaturgy and Dramatic Character: A Long View

Dramaturgy and Dramatic Character: A Long View

Author: William Storm (University of New Mexico)
ISBN: 9781316509067
Format: Paperback
$82.80

From ancient Greece to the modern theatre, this book delivers a wide-ranging look at how characters have been conceived...  Read More >>

Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and Contemporary Practice

Devised Performance in Irish Theatre: Histories and...

Author: Siobhán O'Gorman ,  Charlotte McIvor
ISBN: 9781788747912
Format: Paperback
$69.22

""A Carysfort Press book in association with Peter Lang"" -- back of title page.  Read More >>

Victorian Writers and the Stage: The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson

Victorian Writers and the Stage: The Plays of Dickens,...

Author: R. Pearson ,  R Pearson
ISBN: 9781349700332
Format: Paperback
$145.17

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Shakespeare Seen: Image, Performance and Society

Shakespeare Seen: Image, Performance and Society

Author: Stuart Sillars (Universitetet i Bergen, Norway)
ISBN: 9781107193246
Format: Hardback
$243.23

This collection of essays, some previously unpublished, discusses the ways in which earlier illustrators and painters...  Read More >>

Masculinity, Corporality and the English Stage 1580–1635

Masculinity, Corporality and the English Stage 1580–1635...

Author: Christian M. Billing
ISBN: 9781138376021
Format: Paperback
$112.00

The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored...  Read More >>

Women`s Household Drama – Loves Victorie, A Pastorall, and The concealed Fansyes

Women`s Household Drama – Loves Victorie, A Pastorall,...

Author: Jane Cavendish ,  Elizabeth Brackley
ISBN: 9780866986021
Format: Paperback
$131.87

This volume presents three plays by women that were written in specific household contexts and survive in distinctive...  Read More >>

An Ancient Tale New Told - Volume 2: The Stories of Shakespeare - Histories

An Ancient Tale New Told - Volume 2: The Stories of...

Author: John Missall
ISBN: 9781791829063
Format: Paperback
$57.95

"The stories told in the plays of William Shakespeare are among the most beloved in all literature. In this unique...  Read More >>

Jorge Luís Borges: Borges on Shakespeare

Jorge Luís Borges: Borges on Shakespeare

Author: Grace Tiffany ,  Grace Tiffany
ISBN: 9780866986007
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Celebrated Argentine author Jorge Luís Borges found Shakespeare’s work so compelling that he not only fictively...  Read More >>

Africa on the Contemporary London Stage

Africa on the Contemporary London Stage

Author: Tiziana Morosetti
ISBN: 9783319945071
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This collection of essays investigates the way Africa has been portrayed on the London stage from the 1950s to the...  Read More >>

Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature

Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic...

Author: Joel B. Lande
ISBN: 9781501727115
Format: Paperback
$55.00

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The Early Modern Theatre of Cruelty and its Doubles: Artaud and Influence

The Early Modern Theatre of Cruelty and its Doubles:...

Author: Amanda Di Ponio
ISBN: 9783030063931
Format: Paperback
$171.57

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Understanding french literature: Lorenzaccio: Analysis of the romantic drama of Alfred de Musset

Understanding french literature: Lorenzaccio: Analysis...

Author: Gloria Lauzanne
ISBN: 9781794033764
Format: Paperback
$17.72

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