Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation

OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits...

Author: Daniel Fischlin
ISBN: 9781442615939
Format: Paperback
$77.99

OuterSpeares is the first book to examine the full spectrum of past and present adaptations, and one that offers...  Read More >>

Andreas Friz’s Letter on Tragedies (ca. 1741-1744): An Eighteenth-Century Jesuit contribution to theatre poetics

Andreas Friz’s Letter on Tragedies (ca. 1741-1744):...

Author: Nienke Tjoelker
ISBN: 9789004283732
Format: Hardback
$586.08

In Andreas Friz’s Letter on tragedies Nienke Tjoelker presents an edition with translation and extensive introduction...  Read More >>

The Birth of Tragedy, or Hellenism and Pessimism

The Birth of Tragedy, or Hellenism and Pessimism

Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
ISBN: 9781503097742
Format: Paperback
$54.09

FREDERICK NIETZSCHE was born at Rocken near Ltitzen, in the Prussian province of Saxony, on the i 5th of October...  Read More >>

The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare

The Quality of Mercy: Reflections on Shakespeare

Author: Peter Brook
ISBN: 9781848424104
Format: Paperback
$23.99

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Antonin Artaud: The Scum of the Soul

Antonin Artaud: The Scum of the Soul

Author: Ros Murray
ISBN: 9781137310576
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book serves as analysis of the aesthetics of materiality in the multifaceted work of Antonin Artaud, one of...  Read More >>

Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion in Post-Reformation England

Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion in Post-Reformation...

Author: James Mardock ,  Kathryn McPherson
ISBN: 9780820704739
Format: Hardback
$152.00

""Eleven essays explore the ways in which English drama reinforces, revises, resists, and reacts against the religious...  Read More >>

Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination

Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style,...

Author: Tamara T. Chin
ISBN: 9780674417199
Format: Hardback
$131.87

Tamara T. Chin explores the politics of representation during the Han dynasty at a pivotal moment when China was...  Read More >>

The Returns of Antigone: Interdisciplinary Essays

The Returns of Antigone: Interdisciplinary Essays

Author: Tina Chanter ,  Sean D. Kirkland
ISBN: 9781438452937
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Examines Antigone's influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Italy and Intertextuality

Shakespeare, Italy and Intertextuality

Author: Michele Marrapodi ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719066672
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Newly available in paperback, this collection of essays, written by distinguished international scholars, focuses...  Read More >>

King Lear

King Lear

Author: Sheba Blake ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781503051515
Format: Paperback
$23.76

Criticism, notes, and a bibliography accompany the text of the tragedy.  Read More >>

The Bedford Shakespeare

The Bedford Shakespeare

Author: Russ McDonald ,  Lena Orlin
ISBN: 9780312439637
Format: Paperback
$361.65

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Jeppe on the Hill and Other Comedies by Ludvig Holberg

Jeppe on the Hill and Other Comedies by Ludvig Holberg...

Author: Ludvig Holberg ,  Gerald S. Argetsinger
ISBN: 9780809333738
Format: Paperback
$69.30

This book presents English translations of eight of the comedies Holberg wrote for the Lille Gronnegade Theatre...  Read More >>

Romeo y Julieta

Romeo y Julieta

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781503042162
Format: Paperback
$34.06

The Shakespearian classic has been adapted into picture book format for young children.  Read More >>

Julio César

Julio César

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781503041660
Format: Paperback
$34.06

""Julio César"", de William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare fue un dramaturgo y poeta inglés, uno de los más célebres...  Read More >>

Intermediales Text-Theater: Die Bühne Des Politischen Und Des Wissens Vom Menschen Bei Wordsworth Und Scott

Intermediales Text-Theater: Die Bühne Des Politischen...

Author: Kai Merten
ISBN: 9783110326550
Format: Hardback
$231.57

This book discovers the latent working of the theatre in British Romantic literature. It shows how two central writers,...  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781502993991
Format: Paperback
$16.16

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume....  Read More >>

A Színpadtól a Színpadig: Válogatás Marvin Carlson Színházi Írásaiból

A Színpadtól a Színpadig: Válogatás Marvin Carlson Színházi...

Author: Marvin Carlson ,  Maria Kurdi
ISBN: 9786155423079
Format: Paperback
$29.01

(Please note: This book is published in Hungarian) The volume titled A színpadtól a színpadig (From the Stage to...  Read More >>

Aristotle and Menander on the Ethics of Understanding

Aristotle and Menander on the Ethics of Understanding...

Author: Valeria Cinaglia
ISBN: 9789004269750
Format: Hardback
$438.24

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Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XII

Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett: Great Shakespeareans:...

Author: Adrian Poole
ISBN: 9781472518507
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Marx and Freud: Great Shakespeareans: Volume X

Marx and Freud: Great Shakespeareans: Volume X

Author: Crystal Bartolovich ,  Dr David Hillman
ISBN: 9781472517142
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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The Janus of Poets: Being an Essay on the Dramatic Value of Shakespeare's Poetry Both Good and Bad

The Janus of Poets: Being an Essay on the Dramatic Value...

Author: Richard David
ISBN: 9781107432130
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Originally published in 1935, this book contains an expanded version of the Harness Prize Essay for 1934 on the...  Read More >>

Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean: Great Shakespeareans: Volume II

Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean: Great Shakespeareans:...

Author: Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame, USA)
ISBN: 9781472517289
Format: Paperback
$69.99

A comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This...  Read More >>

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