Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Autumnal Faces is a timely study on the ways old(er) people and ageing have been represented in the popular imagination....  Read More >>

Ethical Exchanges in Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy examines the ethics of specific artistic practices....  Read More >>

A devoutly Christian slave becomes separated from his wife and family when he is sold to the brutal planter, Simon...  Read More >>

Collected here are conversations with Samuel Beckett recounted by translators, scholars, artists, and theatre and...  Read More >>

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

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Examines acts of showing—from dog shows to striptease—to understand and theorize instances of heightened performance...  Read More >>

This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance...  Read More >>

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Examines acts of showing—from dog shows to striptease—to understand and theorize instances of heightened performance...  Read More >>

"The second play in William Shakespeare's tetralogy of plays which also includes ""Richard II"", ""Henry IV, Part...  Read More >>

In this interdisciplinary book, scholars from English literature, Italian studies, performance history, and comparative...  Read More >>

A Special Issue of Irish University Review that considers the themes and forms of remembrance in Irish culture from...  Read More >>

As the title indicates, Pedro Calderon de la Barca's Jealousy tragically dramatizes the same key themes and emotions...  Read More >>

Frequently reprinted with these same ISBNs but with slightly differing bibliographical details.  Read More >>

Shakespeare is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature...  Read More >>

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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: D. C. Heath  Read More >>

Shakespeare's tragedy of Julius Caesar is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks...  Read More >>

A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly,...  Read More >>

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Critical Notes on Shakespeare's Histories and Tragedies is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition...  Read More >>

Seneca's Thyestes is the only literary or dramatic account of the Greek myth of Thyestes and his brother Atreus...  Read More >>

Ariel Juvenil recoge las obras mas importantes e influyentes de la literatura universal, en una version adaptada...  Read More >>

Theatre on Terror is the first publication to examine the construction and negotiation of subject positions in British...  Read More >>