Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain

Reading the River in Shakespeare’s Britain
Author: Bill Angus , Lisa Hopkins (Professor Emerita of English, Sheffield Hallam University) ISBN: 9781399534499 Format: Paperback	$57.99
Explores how perceptions of rivers shaped identity and culture in Shakespeare's Britain Read More >>

Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642: Commerce, Spectacle, and the Formation of the East India Company

Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642:...
Author: Amrita Sen ISBN: 9789048559336 Format: Hardback	$375.19
Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent,... Read More >>

A Complete History of Classical Chinese Dramatic Theory

A Complete History of Classical Chinese Dramatic Theory...
Author: Weimin Yu , Junfeng Yang ISBN: 9781805890508 Format: Hardback	$369.60
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Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays in Their Cultural Context

Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays...
Author: Jim Curtis ISBN: 9781032581101 Format: Hardback	$273.00
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Queering the South: Case Studies with Emma Dante

Queering the South: Case Studies with Emma Dante
Author: Alice Parrinello ISBN: 9781803741321 Format: Paperback	$116.44
This monograph analyses the films and plays of Sicilian director Emma Dante by adopting a queer approach and focusing... Read More >>

A Contextual Guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra: History, Myth, Gender

A Contextual Guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra:...
Author: Jyotsna G. Singh (Professor Emerita in the Department of English, Michigan State University) , Daniel Vitkus (Professor and Rebeca Hickel Endowed Chair in Elizabethan Literature, University of California, San Diego) ISBN: 9781474494267 Format: Hardback	$230.00
This contextual guide to Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra highlights the ways in which the play was shaped by... Read More >>

The Plays of Henrik Ibsen

The Plays of Henrik Ibsen
Author: David Irvin ISBN: 9781806341610 Format: Paperback	$41.37
A comprehensive analysis of all Ibsen's plays, written in a clear non-academic prose, which not only takes us through... Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness
Author: Leslie C. Dunn , Avi Mendelson ISBN: 9783032088963 Format: Hardback	$336.35
Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern... Read More >>

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations...
Author: Ifeoluwa Aboluwade , Serena Talento ISBN: 9781032487830 Format: Paperback	$119.00
African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies,... 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: Rebecca Parks ISBN: 9781535886659 Format: Hardback	$1496.88
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Bertolt Brecht in Context

Bertolt Brecht in Context
Author: Stephen Brockmann (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania) ISBN: 9781108445177 Format: Paperback	$77.60
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Ibsen in Context

Ibsen in Context
Author: Narve Fulsås , Tore Rem (Universitetet i Oslo) ISBN: 9781108434737 Format: Paperback	$77.60
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Chekhov in Context

Chekhov in Context
Author: Yuri Corrigan (Boston University) ISBN: 9781108820462 Format: Paperback	$77.60
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Euripides and Quotation Culture

Euripides and Quotation Culture
Author: Dr Matthew Wright (University of Exeter, UK) , David Taylor ISBN: 9781350441217 Format: Paperback	$59.99
Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation... Read More >>

Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama: Challenges of Visualization and Adaptation in Old and New Media

Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama: Challenges of Visualization...
Author: Rowland Wymer ISBN: 9782503618432 Format: Paperback	$264.00
This volume of essays examines creative and visually interesting responses to the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries... Read More >>

A Complete History of Classical Chinese Dramatic Theory

A Complete History of Classical Chinese Dramatic Theory...
Author: Weimin Yu , Junfeng Yang ISBN: 9781844648337 Format: Paperback	$205.92
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Mirrors in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama: Power, Gender and the Magic of the Theatre

Mirrors in Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama:...
Author: Valentina Finger (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.) ISBN: 9781350535008 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Reduced Shakespeare Company...
Author: Dr Ronan Hatfull (University of Warwick, UK) , Dr. Farah Karim Cooper (Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK) ISBN: 9781350457614 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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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 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 >>

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 >>

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