Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Othello: Language and Writing

Othello: Language and Writing

Author: Prof. Laurie Maguire (Universtiy of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781408156599
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of  Shakespeare's language with specific help for students...  Read More >>

Twelfth Night: Language and Writing

Twelfth Night: Language and Writing

Author: Frances E. Dolan
ISBN: 9781408171745
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of  Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students...  Read More >>

Othello: The State of Play

Othello: The State of Play

Author: Professor Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9781408184561
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Othello has a long history of provoking profound emotion in its audiences and readers. This ‘freeze frame’ volume...  Read More >>

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The...

Author: Aeschylus ,  Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones
ISBN: 9781472526793
Format: Paperback
$39.99

First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus's trilogy of plays - known collectively as The Oresteia - remains perhaps the...  Read More >>

Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 2 Volume Set

Paratexts in English Printed Drama to 1642 2 Volume...

Author: Thomas L. Berger (St Lawrence University, New York) ,  Sonia Massai (King's College London)
ISBN: 9780521851848
Format: Hardback
$494.21

A unique reference source of English drama to 1642, which gathers texts drawn from preliminaries and end matters...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Beehive: A Compleat Recording of the Annotations

Shakespeare's Beehive: A Compleat Recording of the Annotations...

Author: Lauren Avirom ,  George Koppelman
ISBN: 9780991573059
Format: Paperback
$132.00

A complete recording of manuscript annotations in a curious copy of John Baret's ALVEARIE, an Elizabethan dictionary...  Read More >>

Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae: Philosophizing Theatre and the Politics of Perception in Late Fifth-Century Athens

Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae: Philosophizing Theatre...

Author: Ashley Clements (Trinity College, Dublin)
ISBN: 9781107040823
Format: Hardback
$243.23

Offers scholars of Greek literature new evidence of Aristophanes' polemical use of philosophy in poetic competition;...  Read More >>

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550–1700

Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550–1700...

Author: Susan Wiseman (Birkbeck, University of London)
ISBN: 9781107041653
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Wiseman explores the transformations of fantastic creatures including werewolves and wild children in English Renaissance...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and YouTube: New Media Forms of the Bard

Shakespeare and YouTube: New Media Forms of the Bard...

Author: Dr Stephen O'Neill (Maynooth University, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781441120922
Format: Hardback
$240.00

The video-sharing platform YouTube signals exciting opportunities and challenges for Shakespeare studies. As patron,...  Read More >>

Othello: Language and Writing

Othello: Language and Writing

Author: Prof. Laurie Maguire (Universtiy of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781472518293
Format: Hardback
$130.00

A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of  Shakespeare's language with specific help for students...  Read More >>

Twelfth Night: Language and Writing

Twelfth Night: Language and Writing

Author: Frances E. Dolan
ISBN: 9781472518347
Format: Hardback
$130.00

""Frances E. Dolan examines the puzzling pronouns and puns, the love poetry, mischief, and disguises of Twelfth...  Read More >>

The Theatre of Brian Friel: Tradition and Modernity

The Theatre of Brian Friel: Tradition and Modernity...

Author: Prof. Christopher Murray ,  Csilla Bertha (Reader)
ISBN: 9781408157343
Format: Hardback
$220.00

A Critical Companion to the theatre of Ireland's foremost living playwright, whose work spans fifty years and has...  Read More >>

Witkacy: 21st Century Perspectives

Witkacy: 21st Century Perspectives

Author: Kevin Anthony Hayes ,  Mark Rudnicki
ISBN: 9780992931711
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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Witkacy: 21st Century Perspectives

Witkacy: 21st Century Perspectives

Author: Kevin Anthony Hayes ,  Mark Rudnicki
ISBN: 9780992931704
Format: Paperback
$158.40

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz 'Witkacy' (1885-1939) was a Dramatist, Poet, Novelist, Painter, Photographer, Art Theorist...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood

Shakespeare and the Performance of Girlhood

Author: D. Williams
ISBN: 9781137024756
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This is the first scholarly study devoted to Shakespeare's girl characters and conceptions of girlhood. It charts...  Read More >>

Hernani

Hernani

Author: John J. Janc
ISBN: 9780761863205
Format: Hardback
$250.99

This is a critical edition, or “édition critique,” of Victor Hugo’s play Hernani. Following the play, there are...  Read More >>

Organizational Ethics and Stakeholder Well-Being in the Business Environment

Organizational Ethics and Stakeholder Well-Being in...

Author: Sean Valentine
ISBN: 9781623966355
Format: Hardback
$290.40

This book explores organizational ethics, focusing on principles and norms that influence business ethics, employee...  Read More >>

Sex and War on the American Stage: Lysistrata in performance 1930-2012

Sex and War on the American Stage: Lysistrata in performance...

Author: Emily Klein
ISBN: 9780415812153
Format: Hardback
$315.00

American adaptations of Aristophanes’ enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism...  Read More >>

Shipwrecked: Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World

Shipwrecked: Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare,...

Author: James Morrison
ISBN: 9780472119202
Format: Hardback
$158.27

Four thousand years of shipwrecks in literature and film  Read More >>

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century English Comedies as a New Kind of Drama: A Foucauldian Interpretation of Family Relations, Sexuality, and Resistance as Psychological Power

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century English Comedies...

Author: Laura Martinez-Garcia
ISBN: 9780773442627
Format: Hardback
$349.18

For centuries the Restoration and its comedy have been ignored and rejected by critics and audiences in general....  Read More >>

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781499614015
Format: Paperback
$18.45

This series presents hardback editions of Shakespeare's plays for use in schools. The text is supported by detailed...  Read More >>

An Intervention

An Intervention

Author: Mike Bartlett
ISBN: 9781848423831
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A touching, funny play about what happens when you hate your best friend.  Read More >>

A Warm Winter

A Warm Winter

Author: Priyam Kumar
ISBN: 9781482820904
Format: Paperback
$31.65

This is a story about two people: Abhay and Anamika, who are different, yet similar to each other. They meet in...  Read More >>

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