Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Oxford Literature Companions: Othello

Oxford Literature Companions: Othello

Author: Graham Elsdon
ISBN: 9780198398981
Format: Paperback
$20.95

This guide to Othello is ideal for use in the classroom or for revision, providing insight into characterisation,...  Read More >>

At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing Labor

At Work in the Early Modern English Theater: Valuing...

Author: Matthew Kendrick
ISBN: 9781611478266
Format: Paperback
$111.26

This book examines the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries from the perspective of the period’s radically...  Read More >>

Lorca: Three Plays

Lorca: Three Plays

Author: Federico García Lorca ,  Jo Clifford
ISBN: 9781848426320
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Three of Federico García Lorca's most famous plays in a single volume: Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda...  Read More >>

Close Reading without Readings: Essays on Shakespeare and Others

Close Reading without Readings: Essays on Shakespeare...

Author: Stephen Booth
ISBN: 9781611478921
Format: Paperback
$147.81

Close Reading Without Readings is a collection of essays by the renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Booth in which...  Read More >>

The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade

The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances...

Author: James M. Harding ,  Cindy Rosenthal
ISBN: 9780472053360
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Challenges the notion that the theater of the 1960s falls neatly into two categories, mainstream or experimental...  Read More >>

Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee

Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee

Author: Dr Arthur Rose (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9781474258647
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Focusing on work by Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, Literary Cynics explores the relationship...  Read More >>

The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade

The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances...

Author: James M. Harding ,  Cindy Rosenthal
ISBN: 9780472073368
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Challenges the notion that the theater of the 1960s falls neatly into two categories, mainstream or experimental...  Read More >>

Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe

Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus...

Author: Louise Geddes
ISBN: 9781683930440
Format: Hardback
$217.35

Appropriating Shakespeare argues that the vibrant history of Pyramus and Thisbe as an independent text affirms the...  Read More >>

What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing

What Playwrights Talk About When They Talk About Writing...

Author: Jeffrey Sweet
ISBN: 9780300211443
Format: Hardback
$46.95

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Word Plays: Collected Writings on Politics and Culture

Word Plays: Collected Writings on Politics and Culture...

Author: Robert Brustein
ISBN: 9781412865616
Format: Paperback
$81.99

According to Robert Brustein, the theater should be taken seriously as one of the fine arts, but it should also...  Read More >>

Word Plays: Collected Writings on Politics and Culture

Word Plays: Collected Writings on Politics and Culture...

Author: Robert Brustein
ISBN: 9781412865043
Format: Hardback
$305.00

According to Robert Brustein, the theater should be taken seriously as one of the fine arts, but it should also...  Read More >>

For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes

For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes...

Author: Lowell Duckert
ISBN: 9781517900472
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The Shakespearean era's wet writers guide our eco-way today  Read More >>

We're Heaven Bound!: Portrait of a Black Sacred Drama

We're Heaven Bound!: Portrait of a Black Sacred Drama...

Author: Gregory D. Coleman
ISBN: 9780820352770
Format: Hardback
$232.19

Staged annually and without interruption for more than seventy years at Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church...  Read More >>

The Ladies Foursome

The Ladies Foursome

Author: Norm Foster
ISBN: 9781770914261
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A funny, fast-paced, heartwarming story of friendship inspired by Norm Foster's popular play The Foursome.  Read More >>

The Slowcoach

The Slowcoach

Author: E V Lucas ,  Andrea Gouveia
ISBN: 9781546339335
Format: Paperback
$21.94

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Grundriss der englischen Philologie: Zweite Auflage

Grundriss der englischen Philologie: Zweite Auflage...

Author: Karl Elze
ISBN: 9783744612548
Format: Paperback
$102.70

Grundriss der englischen Philologie - Zweite Auflage ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe...  Read More >>

Birdcraft: A Field Book of 200 Song-, Game-, And Water Birds

Birdcraft: A Field Book of 200 Song-, Game-, And Water...

Author: Mabel Osgood Wright ,  Louis Agassiz Fuertes
ISBN: 9783744734127
Format: Paperback
$95.48

Birdcraft - A Field Book of 200 Song-, Game-, And Water Birds is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original...  Read More >>

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

Author: Andrea Gouveia ,  Monsieur Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781546318330
Format: Paperback
$17.53

The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, exploring corruption and morality, and bringing an act of political sin into...  Read More >>

The Duchess of Padua

The Duchess of Padua

Author: Andrea Gouveia ,  Monsieur Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781546338857
Format: Paperback
$17.53

The Duchess of Padua is a play by Oscar Wilde. It is a five-act melodramatic tragedy set in Padua and written in...  Read More >>

Perfformio'r Genedl: Ar Drywydd Hywel Teifi Edwards

Perfformio'r Genedl: Ar Drywydd Hywel Teifi Edwards...

Author: Anwen Jones
ISBN: 9781786830340
Format: Paperback
$20.67

Amcan y gyfrol hon yw cloriannu a chydnabod cyfraniad Hywel Teifi Edwards i'r broses bwysig o ddiffinio anian ac...  Read More >>

What Was Tragedy?: Theory and the Early Modern Canon

What Was Tragedy?: Theory and the Early Modern Canon...

Author: Blair Hoxby (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780198810599
Format: Paperback
$122.88

What was Tragedy reconstructs the early modern poetics of tragedy with which practicing dramatists worked. In doing...  Read More >>

Goldoni in Paris: La Gloire et le Malentendu

Goldoni in Paris: La Gloire et le Malentendu

Author: Jessica Goodman (St Catherine's College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198796626
Format: Hardback
$188.95

Jessica Goodman sheds new light on Carlo Goldoni's experience as a dramatic author in 1760s Paris, and on his critical...  Read More >>

Sea Fret

Sea Fret

Author: Tallulah Brown (Playwright, UK)
ISBN: 9781350050440
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The sea took my house and not yours, everything's different for me. Rising sea levels are threatening the ground...  Read More >>

Double Shakespeares: Emotional-Realist Acting and Contemporary Performance

Double Shakespeares: Emotional-Realist Acting and Contemporary...

Author: Cary M. Mazer
ISBN: 9781611478457
Format: Paperback
$111.26

Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s plays, and narratives about rehearsing and...  Read More >>

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