Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Shakespeare, Race and Anglophone Popular Culture

Shakespeare, Race and Anglophone Popular Culture

Author: Vanessa I. Corredera (Baylor University, USA) ,  L. Monique Pittman (Andrews University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350500570
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Trauma Theory

Shakespeare and Trauma Theory

Author: Kelsey Ridge (Alvernia University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350439108
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Kelsey Ridge provides a thorough overview of how we can use trauma theory to understand Shakespeare through its...  Read More >>

Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony Kushner's Political Plays

Post-Marxism, Representation, and Resistance in Tony...

Author: Arnab Ray
ISBN: 9781666979015
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A study of four plays by Tony Kushner that are most political and pertinent for our time  Read More >>

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Nineteenth-Century America: Discourse and Criticism

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Nineteenth-Century America:...

Author: Emeritus Professor Herbert Rowland
ISBN: 9781640142053
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Surveys the considerable nineteenth-century American discourse on and response to the writings of the German dramatist,...  Read More >>

Polemical Jewish Entertainments in Amsterdam: A Yiddish Manuscript of ‚Toledot Yeshu’ (Ms. Amsterdam, EH 47 A 21)

Polemical Jewish Entertainments in Amsterdam: A Yiddish...

Author: Evi Michels
ISBN: 9783111242583
Format: Hardback
$467.25

The text genre of the ""Toledot Yeshu"", unique in Judaism, experienced a peak in 18th century Amsterdam, especially...  Read More >>

Molière in Context

Molière in Context

Author: Jan Clarke (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781108717489
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics,...  Read More >>

Tom Stoppard in Context

Tom Stoppard in Context

Author: David Kornhaber (University of Texas, Austin) ,  James N. Loehlin (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9781108413046
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Tom Stoppard in Context provides cultural, historical, and intellectual contexts to help readers enjoy one of the...  Read More >>

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Author: Jonathan Baldo (University of Rochester, New York) ,  Isabel Karremann (University of Zurich)
ISBN: 9781009048330
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The first collection to systematically combine the vibrant fields of memory and affect in early modern studies,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Dante's Spirit

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Dante's Spirit

Author: Marco Antonio Andreacchio
ISBN: 9781041246176
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book explores how Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet follows in the footsteps of Dante's revival of Platonic poetry....  Read More >>

Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage

Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels...

Author: Marina Cano (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Valencia)
ISBN: 9780198992882
Format: Hardback
$191.95

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

Ecology and Climate in Theatre and Australian Performance

Ecology and Climate in Theatre and Australian Performance...

Author: Peta Tait (La Trobe University, Victoria) ,  Denise Varney (University of Melbourne)
ISBN: 9781009618267
Format: Hardback
$245.81

Charting a history of theatrical resistance to environmental exploitation, this study places Australian theatre...  Read More >>

Shakespeare at Large: Law and the First Folio

Shakespeare at Large: Law and the First Folio

Author: Matteo Nicolini
ISBN: 9781041290827
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This collection celebrates the quadricentennial anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, examining the intersection...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Senses

Shakespeare and the Senses

Author: Holly E. Dugan
ISBN: 9780866986960
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Shakespeare and the Senses explores how audiences of Shakespeare’s time would have understood the sensual world...  Read More >>

Activating Hamlet

Activating Hamlet

Author: Eddie Burton
ISBN: 9781032964270
Format: Hardback
$144.87

This book tells a new story about Hamlet, exposing it's key philosophical concerns are also significant factors...  Read More >>

Le dernier poème

Le dernier poème

Author: Jérôme Godefroy
ISBN: 9798250929370
Format: Paperback
$21.12

Dans un royaume imaginaire, gouverné par un seigneur, fanatique et poète, la souffrance du peuple ne semble pas...  Read More >>

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England...

Author: Claire M. L. Bourne (Assistant Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University)
ISBN: 9780197903674
Format: Paperback
$58.95

Explores typographic display and experimentation in printed play-texts from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries...  Read More >>

You Got Older

You Got Older

Author: Clare Barron
ISBN: 9781350638747
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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Living

Living

Author: Leo Butler
ISBN: 9781350635272
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A new state-of-the-nation play about all the years of our lives by award-winning Sheffield playwright Leo Butler...  Read More >>

A Doll's House

A Doll's House

Author: Henrik Ibsen
ISBN: 9791043133275
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Nora Helmer's struggle for identity in 1870s Norway sparks a fight for family and self in a society limiting women's...  Read More >>

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