Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Drama Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Dramatic Works

Drama Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Most...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781414485218
Format: Hardback
$871.20

Each volume of this resource covers four to eight significant dramatists or plays. For each play or playwright featured,...  Read More >>

Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology

Citizen-Saints: Shakespeare and Political Theology

Author: Julia Reinhard Lupton
ISBN: 9780226143521
Format: Paperback
$51.95

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Gateway to the Modern: Resituating J. M. Barrie

Gateway to the Modern: Resituating J. M. Barrie

Author: Valentina Bold ,  Andrew Nash
ISBN: 9781908980021
Format: Paperback
$51.62

As well as being the author of Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie was a hugely successful novelist and playwright. Gateway...  Read More >>

Dea Loher: Three Plays

Dea Loher: Three Plays

Author: Dea Loher ,  David Tushingham (Author)
ISBN: 9781783190621
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A new collection of three plays by Dea Loher, one of Germany’s most highly esteemed contemporary playwrights.  Read More >>

Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of No Plays of the Genpei War

Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of No...

Author: Elizabeth A. Oyler ,  Michael Watson
ISBN: 9781933947594
Format: Paperback
$61.75

Offers a better understanding of a nexus of stories, characters and arts central to medieval and early modern Japan,...  Read More >>

13 More by Shanley

13 More by Shanley

Author: John Patrick Shanley
ISBN: 9781623160241
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Ben Jonson in Context

Ben Jonson in Context

Author: Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9781107637092
Format: Paperback
$98.32

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Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance

Shakespeare in Asia: Contemporary Performance

Author: Dennis Kennedy (Professor Emeritus of Drama, Trinity College, Dublin) ,  Yong Li Lan (National University of Singapore)
ISBN: 9781107693739
Format: Paperback
$108.68

Shakespeare, the world's most popular dramatist, is produced and transformed in huge variety around the globe. This...  Read More >>

Cormac McCarthy: New Directions

Cormac McCarthy: New Directions

Author: James D. Lilley
ISBN: 9780826327673
Format: Paperback
$62.70

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Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Relationship between Text and Film

Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Relationship...

Author: Samuel Crowl
ISBN: 9781472538918
Format: Hardback
$180.00

A study of how Hamlet has been adapted for film and TV, with a focus on the classic film by Olivier and Branagh...  Read More >>

Seneca: Medea: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

Seneca: Medea: Edited with Introduction, Translation,...

Author: A. J. Boyle (Professor of Classics, University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780199602087
Format: Hardback
$428.00

A full-scale critical edition of Seneca's Medea which offers a substantial introduction, a new Latin text, an English...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Nature: From Cultivation to Culture

Shakespeare's Nature: From Cultivation to Culture

Author: Charlotte Scott (Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare, Goldsmiths' College, University of London)
ISBN: 9780199685080
Format: Hardback
$190.95

Shakespeare's Nature offers a radically new interpretation of Shakespeare's depiction of nature, revealing the extent...  Read More >>

Measure for Measure: A Version from All Clear! Shakespeare

Measure for Measure: A Version from All Clear! Shakespeare...

Author: Eugene Kusterer
ISBN: 9781495979804
Format: Paperback
$18.48

"This ""problem play"" NEEDN'T BE! The ALL CLEAR! SHAKESPEARE project takes on the challenge. We eschew the obvious...  Read More >>

The Life of Timon of Athens

The Life of Timon of Athens

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781496055149
Format: Paperback
$29.59

The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the legendary Athenian misanthrope Timon (and...  Read More >>

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781496054616
Format: Paperback
$30.54

A Trojan prince becomes disillusioned with love and war after the deceit of his beloved Cressida and the death of...  Read More >>

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

Author: Alex Struik ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781496055668
Format: Paperback
$29.46

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A Winter's Tale: Digital Age Edition

A Winter's Tale: Digital Age Edition

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Julien Coallier
ISBN: 9781496030016
Format: Paperback
$31.65

An ancient tale in which suspicions proves themselves to be a battle against sanity. This version has been decoded...  Read More >>

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781496045171
Format: Paperback
$29.81

A revised edition of the comedy covers the playwright's life and theater, an introduction to the play, sources,...  Read More >>

Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781496045676
Format: Paperback
$29.73

This GoReader comes preloaded with 1 audiobook title: Twelfth Night. Designed for the struggling reader, the titles...  Read More >>

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781496043825
Format: Paperback
$29.41

"""Designed to supplement, not supplant, the original, this adaptation illuminates Shakespeare's meaning for modern...  Read More >>

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England

Author: Allison P. Hobgood (Willamette University, Oregon)
ISBN: 9781107041288
Format: Hardback
$335.28

How were early modern playgoers emotionally moved by theatre performances, and how did their reactions in turn influence...  Read More >>

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