Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Gift

The Gift
Author: Dave Florez (Playwright, UK) ISBN: 9781350559172 Format: Paperback	$26.99
When someone wraps a poo in a cake box and drops it on Colin's doorstep, he and his sister Lisa and her husband... Read More >>

The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice, Pedagogy, and Influences

The Theatre of Paula Vogel: Practice, Pedagogy, and...
Author: Dr Lee Brewer Jones (Georgia State University, USA) , Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA) ISBN: 9781350251755 Format: Paperback	$59.99
In this volume, Lee Brewer Jones examines Paula Vogel as both a playwright and renowned teacher, analyzing texts... Read More >>

Atrocity and Early Modern Drama

Atrocity and Early Modern Drama
Author: Sarah Johnson (Royal Military College of Canada) , Georgina Lucas (Independent scholar) ISBN: 9781350272392 Format: Hardback	$160.00
Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize... Read More >>

Global King Lear: Crisis, Performance, Adaptation

Global King Lear: Crisis, Performance, Adaptation
Author: William R. Rampone, Jr. (South Carolina State University, USA) , Eric S. Mallin (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) ISBN: 9781350421462 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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Staging Change: Toward a Theatrical Theory of Activist Performance

Staging Change: Toward a Theatrical Theory of Activist...
Author: Dr Victoria L. Scrimer (University of Maryland, USA, and the University of Mary Washington, USA) , Anja Hartl (University of Innsbruck, Austria) ISBN: 9781350445635 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Exploring a wide variety of examples of activist performances, such as David Buckel’s self-immolation, and the January... Read More >>

Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist

Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed...
Author: Julianne Sandberg ISBN: 9781350452893 Format: Hardback	$170.00
Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote... Read More >>

Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country and Broadway's Rebirth

Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan’s Girl from the North Country...
Author: Todd Almond ISBN: 9781350407381 Format: Hardback	$50.00
Slow Train Coming is both for those who love Bob Dylan and for those who love Broadway. An oral history of the Bob... Read More >>

Eugene O'Neill and the Ashcan Artists: The Influence of the New York Art Movement on the Plays

Eugene O'Neill and the Ashcan Artists: The Influence...
Author: Zander Brietzke ISBN: 9781476694672 Format: Paperback	$145.20
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Representing and Interrogating Dueling, Caning, and Fencing during the British Romantic Period

Representing and Interrogating Dueling, Caning, and...
Author: William D. Brewer ISBN: 9781836243496 Format: Hardback	$297.56
Representing and Interrogating Dueling, Caning, and Fencing during the British Romantic Period examines Romantic-era... Read More >>

Narratives at Play in Aeschylus: Perspectives on Genre and Poetics

Narratives at Play in Aeschylus: Perspectives on Genre...
Author: Laura Gianvittorio-Ungar ISBN: 9789004715790 Format: Hardback	$356.40
This book rethinks Aeschylean theatre as a practice that combines elements of storytelling with enacted responses... Read More >>

Bertolt Brecht’s Adaptations and Anti-capitalist Aesthetics Today

Bertolt Brecht’s Adaptations and Anti-capitalist Aesthetics...
Author: Anthony Squiers ISBN: 9789004721869 Format: Hardback	$351.12
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Julius Caesar In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version

Julius Caesar In Plain and Simple English: A Modern...
Author: Bookcaps , William Shakespeare ISBN: 9798348455781 Format: Paperback	$52.77
Julius Caesar: A Tragedy for the Ages, Made Accessible for All Julius Caesar is one of Shakespeare's most gripping... Read More >>

Imperial Ventures: Maritime Drama and the Invention of Risk

Imperial Ventures: Maritime Drama and the Invention...
Author: Benjamin VanWagoner ISBN: 9781512826999 Format: Hardback	$171.60
Links early modern English drama and empire studies, exploring how staged scenes of maritime peril created a new... Read More >>

The Tempest

The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare ISBN: 9798348420093 Format: Paperback	$26.37
For this second edition of The Tempest - one of Shakespeare's most elusive and suggestive plays - David Lindley... Read More >>

The Music of the Gothic 1789–1820

The Music of the Gothic 1789–1820
Author: Emma McEvoy (University of Westminster) ISBN: 9781009170376 Format: Paperback	$46.58
In the 1790s, the music of Gothic novels and plays was celebratory, calming rather than scary. By 1820, the music... Read More >>

Thinking Literature: Essays on Reading Literary Classics Today

Thinking Literature: Essays on Reading Literary Classics...
Author: Agnieszka Romanowska , Anna Kwiatek ISBN: 9788323354079 Format: Paperback	$92.40
Inspired by Mary Shelley's conviction that reading is a socially significant communal activity, this book presents... Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Exiles

Shakespeare’s Exiles
Author: Richard van Oort ISBN: 9781032823904 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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The Music of the Gothic 1789–1820

The Music of the Gothic 1789–1820
Author: Emma McEvoy (University of Westminster) ISBN: 9781009532860 Format: Hardback	$142.31
In the 1790s, the music of Gothic novels and plays was celebratory, calming rather than scary. By 1820, the music... Read More >>

Alternative Temporalities: The Emancipatory Power of Narrative

Alternative Temporalities: The Emancipatory Power of...
Author: Teresa Valentini , Angela Weiser ISBN: 9781487551919 Format: Hardback	$145.00
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Looking for Giants

Looking for Giants
Author: Cesca Echlin ISBN: 9781350557130 Format: Paperback	$21.99
A monologue in three parts, Looking for Giants follows three different people as they navigate desire and fantasy... Read More >>

Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation: A Practical Guide

Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation: A Practical Guide...
Author: Alys Daroy (Murdoch University, Australia) , Dr Paul Prescott (Independent scholar, UK.) ISBN: 9781350282919 Format: Paperback	$39.99
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The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: Plays and Characters

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language: Plays...
Author: Professor Dawn Archer (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) , Professor Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK) ISBN: 9781350261938 Format: Hardback	$430.00
Part of a landmark reference series detailing and illuminating Shakespeare's rich language through the tools of... Read More >>

Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England

Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's...
Author: Bonnie Lander Johnson (Newnham College, Cambridge) ISBN: 9781009396523 Format: Hardback	$219.94
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Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation: A Practical Guide

Shakespeare, Ecology and Adaptation: A Practical Guide...
Author: Alys Daroy (Murdoch University, Australia) , Dr Paul Prescott (Independent scholar, UK.) ISBN: 9781350282902 Format: Hardback	$130.00
How can we tune into the ecological dynamics of Shakespeare’s plays? How can we adapt those plays to address current... Read More >>

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language: Character Networks

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language: Character...
Author: Jakob Ladegaard (Aarhus University, Denmark) , Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan (Aarhus University, Denmark) ISBN: 9781350260276 Format: Hardback	$260.00
Dialogue is at the heart of Shakespeare’s plays, and when his characters exchange words, they create social communities.... Read More >>

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