Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play: Performing National Identity

Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play: Performing...

Author: Ralf Hertel ,  Dr. Helen Ostovich
ISBN: 9781472420497
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Applying current political theory on nationhood and methods established by recent performance studies, this study...  Read More >>

The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare

The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the...

Author: Heather Hirschfeld ,  Heather Anne Hirschfeld
ISBN: 9780801452741
Format: Hardback
$121.00

Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term ""satisfaction"" as...  Read More >>

The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama

The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama

Author: C. T. Hsia ,  Wai-yee Li (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780231122672
Format: Paperback
$69.95

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The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama

The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama

Author: C. T. Hsia ,  Wai-yee Li (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780231122665
Format: Hardback
$223.95

This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), a period...  Read More >>

The Dialogics of Critique: M.M. Bakhtin and the Theory of Ideology

The Dialogics of Critique: M.M. Bakhtin and the Theory...

Author: Michael Gardiner
ISBN: 9781138009271
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Swearing and Perjury in Shakespeare's Plays

Swearing and Perjury in Shakespeare's Plays

Author: Frances A Shirley (Wheaton College, Massachusetts Wheaton College, MA, USA Wheaton College, MA, USA)
ISBN: 9781299866928
Format: Electronic book text
$760.32

First published in 1979. How do the elements of swearing and perjury work in Shakespeare's plays? What effect did...  Read More >>

Liebelei: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe

Liebelei: Historisch-kritische Ausgabe

Author: Arthur Schnitzler ,  Peter Michael Braunwarth
ISBN: 9783110301748
Format: Hardback
$1475.76

Vom Werk Arthur Schnitzlers existiert bislang keine kritische Ausgabe. Die Bände bieten das Faksimile des Manuskripts,...  Read More >>

Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

Modern British Playwriting: The 1970s: Voices, Documents,...

Author: Chris Megson
ISBN: 9781306727525
Format: Electronic book text
$85.51

Essential for students of theatre studies, this series of six decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study...  Read More >>

Letters to Lalage: The Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims

Letters to Lalage: The Letters of Charles Williams to...

Author: Lois Lang-Sims
ISBN: 9781306302937
Format: Electronic book text
$31.65

The short-lived but remarkable correspondence presented in Letters to Lalage took place toward the end of Charles...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Dramatic Art: Collected Essays

Shakespeare's Dramatic Art: Collected Essays

Author: Wolfgang Clemen
ISBN: 9780415758949
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Studying Shakespeare's 'art of preparation', this book illustrates the relationship between the techniques of preparation...  Read More >>

The Winter's Tale: A Commentary on the Structure

The Winter's Tale: A Commentary on the Structure

Author: Fitzroy Pyle
ISBN: 9780415758987
Format: Paperback
$118.00

The scene-by-scene commentary considers The Winter's Tale in isolation, but prologue, epilogue and appendix place...  Read More >>

Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook

Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook...

Author: Alison Oddey
ISBN: 9781299995604
Format: Electronic book text
$532.07

A practical handbook that combines a critical analysis of contemporary devised theatre practice with descriptions...  Read More >>

Shakespeare

Shakespeare

Author: Allardyce Nicoll
ISBN: 9780415758970
Format: Paperback
$96.99

An invaluable introduction to Shakespeare, this book places Shakespeare's work and criticism against the background...  Read More >>

John Webster: The Critical Heritage

John Webster: The Critical Heritage

Author: Don D. Moore
ISBN: 9781138006911
Format: Paperback
$96.99

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume...  Read More >>

The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge: Giordano Bruno in England

The Renaissance Drama of Knowledge: Giordano Bruno in...

Author: Hilary Gatti
ISBN: 9780415752688
Format: Paperback
$118.00

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne: Renaissance Essays

Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne: Renaissance Essays

Author: Frank Kermode
ISBN: 9780415758963
Format: Paperback
$118.00

This collection of essays discusses some of the central works and areas of literature in the Renaissance period...  Read More >>

Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts

Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury...

Author: Richard France
ISBN: 9781299483620
Format: Electronic book text
$316.67

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Romeo & Juliet

Romeo & Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Susan Franz
ISBN: 9781499399400
Format: Paperback
$147.84

Wishbone introduces you to Romeo and Juliet, whose families have been enemies for generations. Inspite of years...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Montaigne

Shakespeare's Montaigne

Author: Michel De Montaigne ,  Stephen Greenblatt
ISBN: 9781590177228
Format: Paperback
$45.00

This new edition of this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an adroitly modernized...  Read More >>

Macbeth: Abridged for Schools and Performance

Macbeth: Abridged for Schools and Performance

Author: Kj O'Hara ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781499391381
Format: Paperback
$21.09

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The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781499365184
Format: Paperback
$32.18

New Kittredge Shakespeare editions combine performance issues in feature films with the clarity of Kittredge's notes...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of Richard the Third

The Tragedy of Richard the Third

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781499365443
Format: Paperback
$38.60

"The Tragedy of Richard the Third is a historical play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in...  Read More >>

The Life of Henry the Fifth

The Life of Henry the Fifth

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781499369182
Format: Paperback
$32.52

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The First Part of King Henry the Fourth

The First Part of King Henry the Fourth

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781499366686
Format: Paperback
$29.81

Widely studied from GCSE and A level to undergraduate level, this edition of the play offers students a range of...  Read More >>

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