Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Oxford Student Texts: An Ideal Husband

Oxford Student Texts: An Ideal Husband

Author: Jackie Moore ,  Steven Croft
ISBN: 9780198374817
Format: Paperback
$23.95

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El elefante de Shakespeare: en la Inglaterra mas oscura

El elefante de Shakespeare: en la Inglaterra mas oscura...

Author: Wes Jamroz
ISBN: 9781928060055
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Una fascinante narrativa se oculta en los escritos de Shakespeare. El elefante de Shakespeare (traduccion al castellano...  Read More >>

The Theatre of Ola Rotimi: Power, Politics and Postcolonialism

The Theatre of Ola Rotimi: Power, Politics and Postcolonialism...

Author: Kemi Atanda Ilori
ISBN: 9780992961824
Format: Paperback
$79.20

The Theatre of Ola Rotimi: Power, Politics and Postcolonialism is an in-depth study of Rotimi's theatre. Dr Ilori...  Read More >>

Two Gentlemen Of Verona

Two Gentlemen Of Verona

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781545059043
Format: Paperback
$23.73

The play explores the themes of friendship, loyalty, and the foolish behaviour caused by love. Two friends, Valentine...  Read More >>

Winter's Tale

Winter's Tale

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781545058701
Format: Paperback
$23.73

This is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi-comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic...  Read More >>

Where Did Shakespeare Get His Ideas?

Where Did Shakespeare Get His Ideas?

Author: Simon Webb
ISBN: 9781545571613
Format: Paperback
$21.65

The ideas for Shakespeare's plays did not just spring from his head fully formed: there had to be some reading and...  Read More >>

Taschenbuch für Freunde des Scherzes und der Satire

Taschenbuch für Freunde des Scherzes und der Satire...

Author: Johannes Daniel Falk
ISBN: 9783743622463
Format: Paperback
$97.42

Taschenbuch für Freunde des Scherzes und der Satire ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe...  Read More >>

Richard II

Richard II

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Bill Rauch
ISBN: 9781470812928
Format: Audio
$79.20

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

Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage

Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing...

Author: Heather Nathans
ISBN: 9780472130306
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Shows how the earliest representations of Jewish characters on American stages mirrored treatment of Jewish Americans...  Read More >>

Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754): Learning and Literature in the Nordic Enlightenment

Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754): Learning and Literature...

Author: Knud Haakonssen ,  Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen
ISBN: 9781472450708
Format: Hardback
$336.00

This is the most comprehensive treatment of the great Danish-Norwegian polymath of the early Enlightenment, Ludvig...  Read More >>

The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486–280

The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from...

Author: Jeffrey Rusten (Cornell University) ,  Jeffrey Henderson (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781421421186
Format: Paperback
$113.00

A full index includes not only authors, play titles, and persons mentioned, but themes from the whole Greek comic...  Read More >>

Understanding John Guare

Understanding John Guare

Author: William W. Demastes
ISBN: 9781611177381
Format: Hardback
$65.97

In doing so, Guare has created plays about the best and worst of humanity, about lost souls, and about delusional...  Read More >>

The Student's Guide to Shakespeare

The Student's Guide to Shakespeare

Author: William McKenzie (Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University)
ISBN: 9781474413534
Format: Paperback
$46.55

This book is a 'one-stop-shop' for the busy undergraduate studying Shakespeare. Offering detailed guidance to the...  Read More >>

The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare

The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare

Author: Brenda James ,  William Rubinstein
ISBN: 9781138164697
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? This is the question at the heart of the Shakespeare Authorship debate,...  Read More >>

The Student's Guide to Shakespeare

The Student's Guide to Shakespeare

Author: William McKenzie (Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University)
ISBN: 9781474413510
Format: Hardback
$232.88

This book is a 'one-stop-shop' for the busy undergraduate studying Shakespeare. Offering detailed guidance to the...  Read More >>

Ibsen: An Approach

Ibsen: An Approach

Author: Janko Lavrin
ISBN: 9781138941496
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Hamlet - Prince of Denmark

Hamlet - Prince of Denmark

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Obehi Peter Ewanfoh
ISBN: 9781544910383
Format: Paperback
$18.48

Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies, the others being...  Read More >>

Macbeth

Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781544087573
Format: Paperback
$23.47

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

La Letra Escarlata

La Letra Escarlata

Author: Andrea Gouveia ,  Andrea Gouveia
ISBN: 9781544914084
Format: Paperback
$25.19

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Prince Otto: A Romance

Prince Otto: A Romance

Author: Andrea Gouveia ,  Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9781544926315
Format: Paperback
$22.41

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Tales from Shakespeare

Tales from Shakespeare

Author: Charles and Mary Lamb
ISBN: 9781537479729
Format: Paperback
$15.81

Part of the Everyman series, these tales serve as both an introduction to Shakespeare's plays and as stories in...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience

Shakespeare and the Awareness of Audience

Author: Ralph Berry
ISBN: 9781138944756
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This book, first published in 1985, explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare’s audience. First...  Read More >>

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England

Author: Miranda Wilson
ISBN: 9781611488173
Format: Paperback
$74.95

Poison's Dark Works explores the ways English writings about poisoning prompted new ways of thinking. Placing medical,...  Read More >>

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