Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Where Shakespeare Set His Stage

Where Shakespeare Set His Stage

Author: Elise Lathrop
ISBN: 9781341203022
Format: Hardback
$71.15

A study, which focuses on 12 plays, including Julius Caesar , Romeo and Juliet , Othello , Macbeth , and others,...  Read More >>

Song from Far Away

Song from Far Away

Author: Simon Stephens (Author)
ISBN: 9781474277358
Format: Paperback
$24.99

""First performed by Toneelgroep Amsterdam at Mostra Internacional de Teatro de Saao Paulo, Brazil, on 10 March...  Read More >>

All That You've Seen Here Is God: New Versions of Four Greek Tragedies Sophocles' Ajax, Philoctetes, Women of Trachis; Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound

All That You've Seen Here Is God: New Versions of Four...

Author: Bryan Doerries ,  Sophocles
ISBN: 9780307949738
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies that speak across time and connect readers and audiences with...  Read More >>

Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad

Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad...

Author: Harry Berger ,  Jr. Harry Berger
ISBN: 9780823256631
Format: Paperback
$76.56

Considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad - Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2,...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare Portrayed by Himself: A Revelation of the Poet in the Career and Character of One of His Own Dramatic Heroes

William Shakespeare Portrayed by Himself: A Revelation...

Author: Robert Waters, E (Seton Hall University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9781340848422
Format: Hardback
$73.79

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1888 Edition.  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Fact and in Criticism

Shakespeare in Fact and in Criticism

Author: Appleton Morgan
ISBN: 9781340981341
Format: Hardback
$73.79

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

William Shakespere: A Study in Elizabethan Literature

William Shakespere: A Study in Elizabethan Literature...

Author: Barrett Wendell
ISBN: 9781340925635
Format: Hardback
$76.43

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Comedies: Explorations in Form

Shakespeare's Comedies: Explorations in Form

Author: Ralph Berry
ISBN: 9781138120426
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In this lucid and original study, first published in 1972, Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from...  Read More >>

The Art of John Webster

The Art of John Webster

Author: Ralph Berry
ISBN: 9781138120150
Format: Hardback
$252.00

The Art of John Webster, first published in 1972, is a study of the three extant plays of Webster known to be solely...  Read More >>

Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy

Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy

Author: Derek Gottlieb
ISBN: 9781138859555
Format: Hardback
$210.00

This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the...  Read More >>

Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad

Harrying: Skills of Offense in Shakespeare's Henriad...

Author: Harry Berger
ISBN: 9780823256624
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Considers Richard III and the four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad - Richard II, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2,...  Read More >>

Antony and Cleopatra: Includes MLA Style Citations for Scholarly Secondary Sources, Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Critical Essays

Antony and Cleopatra: Includes MLA Style Citations for...

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781517586485
Format: Paperback
$22.04

This Squid Ink Classic edition of Antony and Cleopatra includes the full text of the work plus MLA style citations...  Read More >>

A Midsummer Night's Dream ...: With Alterations, Additions, and New Songs

A Midsummer Night's Dream ...: With Alterations, Additions,...

Author: William Shakespeare ,  John Philip Kemble
ISBN: 9781340623487
Format: Hardback
$57.95

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

The Merchant of Venice: Abridged for Schools and Performance

The Merchant of Venice: Abridged for Schools and Performance...

Author: K J O'Hara ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781517582876
Format: Paperback
$23.73

Abridged especially for teachers and students of English and drama, this is a pacy and engaging version of The Merchant...  Read More >>

Living Screens: Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television

Living Screens: Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary...

Author: Monique Rooney
ISBN: 9781783480463
Format: Hardback
$345.00

Through original analysis of three digital-age, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, Lars von Trier’s...  Read More >>

Goethes theatralische Sendung: Vom »Urgötz« zu »Faust II«

Goethes theatralische Sendung: Vom »Urgötz« zu »Faust...

Author: Prof. Dr. Theo Buck
ISBN: 9783412501914
Format: Hardback
$168.96

Schon zu seinen Lebzeiten, wie auch noch heute, waren und sind die Meinungen uber Goethe als Dramatiker gegensatzlich,...  Read More >>

Living Screens: Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television

Living Screens: Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary...

Author: Monique Rooney
ISBN: 9781783480470
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Through original analysis of three digital-age, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, Lars von Trier’s...  Read More >>

Hamlet

Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Paul Prescott
ISBN: 9780141396507
Format: Paperback
$17.99

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. When young prince Hamlet is confronted by his fathers ghost on the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Power of the Face

Shakespeare and the Power of the Face

Author: James A. Knapp
ISBN: 9781472415790
Format: Hardback
$305.00

As contributors to this volume prove, Shakespeare’s language of the self relies on descriptions of and reactions...  Read More >>

W.B. Yeats and World Literature: The Subject of Poetry

W.B. Yeats and World Literature: The Subject of Poetry...

Author: Barry Sheils
ISBN: 9781472425539
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats’s work in light of contemporary studies of world literature,...  Read More >>

Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815

Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815...

Author: Susan Valladares
ISBN: 9781472418630
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In her study of English theatre during the Peninsular War, Susan Valladares contextualizes the theatrical treatment...  Read More >>

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