Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Macbeth

Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781974054589
Format: Paperback
$26.37

The text of ""Macbeth"" is reproduced and, in addition, five sections of primary documents and illustrations are...  Read More >>

Tragedy

Tragedy

Author: Clifford Leech
ISBN: 9781138241589
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1969, this work examines the genre of Tragedy from its origins in ancient Greece.  Read More >>

Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare's Stage

Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity and the...

Author: Katherine Gillen (Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University-San Antonio)
ISBN: 9781474417716
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Chaste Value reassesses chastity's significance in early modern drama, arguing that presentations of chastity inform...  Read More >>

A Midsummer Nights Dream

A Midsummer Nights Dream

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781974297931
Format: Paperback
$18.43

Harold F. Brooks takes this popular Shakespearean comedy/fantasy to task, examining all the aspects of the play...  Read More >>

A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia,: and the successe of the affaires there till the 18 of June 1614.

A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia,:...

Author: Ralph Hamor
ISBN: 9783337222420
Format: Paperback
$49.90

A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia, - and the successe of the affaires there till the 18 of June...  Read More >>

Drama Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Dramatic Works

Drama Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Most...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781410330598
Format: Hardback
$871.20

Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,...  Read More >>

Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous!: Playing the Bard for Beginners

Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous!: Playing the Bard...

Author: Herb Parker (Associate Professor, the Division of Theatre and Dance, Department of Communication and Performance, East Tennessee State University)
ISBN: 9780415790970
Format: Paperback
$71.99

Performing the work of William Shakespeare can be daunting to new actors. Driven by language, the themes and plots...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words

Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words

Author: Jonathan P. Lamb (University of Kansas)
ISBN: 9781107193314
Format: Hardback
$248.40

This book explores Shakespeare's use of language to interact with the verbal marketplace in which he worked. With...  Read More >>

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Author: Ravell ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781973992028
Format: Paperback
$19.77

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Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire

Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire

Author: Paul A. Cantor
ISBN: 9780226468952
Format: Paperback
$42.95

For more than forty years, Paul Cantor’s Shakespeare’s Rome has been a foundational work in the field of politics...  Read More >>

Logistics in the Falklands War: A Case Study in Expeditionary Warfare

Logistics in the Falklands War: A Case Study in Expeditionary...

Author: Kenneth L. Privratsky ,  Gen Julian Thompson
ISBN: 9781473899049
Format: Paperback
$49.99

First in-depth study of the ingenious logistics plan for OP CORPORATE, written by a highly experienced and senior...  Read More >>

Hamnet

Hamnet

Author: Dead Centre
ISBN: 9781786822314
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Dead Centre's new solo work for an eleven -year-old boy is devoted to Shakespeare's only son, Hamnet, who died in...  Read More >>

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays & Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism...

Author: Gale Research Inc
ISBN: 9781410329486
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

""This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare....  Read More >>

The Sonnets

The Sonnets

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781974036615
Format: Paperback
$31.68

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters

Shakespeare's Fathers and Daughters

Author: Oliver Ford Davies (Independent Scholar and Actor, UK)
ISBN: 9781350038462
Format: Paperback
$52.99

A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between...  Read More >>

Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre

Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and...

Author: Mary Mazzilli (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350036130
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his...  Read More >>

Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater: The Politics of Making the Audience Work

Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater: The Politics of...

Author: Michael Wood
ISBN: 9781571139986
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Analyzes not just Müller's texts but also the theatrical events that emerged from them, showing that from the beginning...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World

Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient...

Author: Paul A. Cantor
ISBN: 9780226462516
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare’s Roman plays—Coriolanus, Julius Caeser, and Antony and Cleopatra—in his...  Read More >>

'Tis Pity She's A Whore: John Ford

'Tis Pity She's A Whore: John Ford

Author: John Ford ,  Simon Barker
ISBN: 9781138418219
Format: Hardback
$399.00

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Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964

Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights,...

Author: Susan Cannon Harris
ISBN: 9781474424462
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist...  Read More >>

King John

King John

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781973942511
Format: Paperback
$21.09

An edition of Shakespeare's King John which includes a lengthy introduction, an extensive commentary and suggested...  Read More >>

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