Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage

Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels...
Author: Marina Cano (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Valencia) ISBN: 9780198992882 Format: Hardback	$191.95
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Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays
Author: Kent Lehnhof (Chapman University, California) ISBN: 9781009613873 Format: Hardback	$245.81
Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the... Read More >>

Shakespeare and Ballet: Gender, Sexuality, Race and Politics on Stage

Shakespeare and Ballet: Gender, Sexuality, Race and...
Author: Professor David Fuller (University of Durham, UK) , Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK) ISBN: 9781350302532 Format: Hardback	$170.00
This is the first comprehensive study of Shakespearean ballets and their unique interpretive possibilities. Read More >>

The Path from Aulis: A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia

The Path from Aulis: A Study of Aeschylus’ Oresteia...
Author: Professor Richard Jenkyns ISBN: 9781350534483 Format: Hardback	$170.00
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Macbeth in Modern European Culture

Macbeth in Modern European Culture
Author: Juan F. Cerdá (University of Murcia, Spain) , Dr Paul Prescott (University of Warwick, UK) ISBN: 9781350427518 Format: Hardback	$160.00
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Brainsluts

Brainsluts
Author: Dan Bishop ISBN: 9781350639249 Format: Paperback	$21.99
Five Sundays. Five strangers. One mystery drug. What could go wrong? Read More >>

Reimagining Classics, the Classroom, and Community with Luis Alfaro

Reimagining Classics, the Classroom, and Community with...
Author: Young Richard Kim ISBN: 9781032595078 Format: Hardback	$401.06
This volume explores the adaptations of Greek tragedy, performances, and activism of playwright Luis Alfaro and... Read More >>

Transforming Orality: Articulating Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Transforming Orality: Articulating Social Change in...
Author: Anne-Julia Zwierlein , Katharina Herold-Zanker ISBN: 9781805966791 Format: Hardback	$369.60
In bringing together a group of international experts on Victorian oral culture, this collection examines formats... Read More >>

Crown of Blood: A Yoruba Adaptation of Macbeth

Crown of Blood: A Yoruba Adaptation of Macbeth
Author: Oladipo Agboluaje (Author, University of East London, UK) ISBN: 9781350626874 Format: Paperback	$22.99
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Hegel's Relationship to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth

Hegel's Relationship to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Macbeth...
Author: Michael Geoffrey Salter ISBN: 9783032094452 Format: Hardback	$422.37
This book explores how Hegel, who had studied Shakespeare first as a schoolboy and then continued to cite him throughout... Read More >>

Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career

Shakespeare High and Low: Character, Audience, Career...
Author: Jeffrey Knapp (Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley) ISBN: 9781399543705 Format: Paperback	$34.99
A critically sophisticated yet highly readable exploration of Shakespeare's career as a mass entertainer. Read More >>

The Battle Over Shakespeare's Identity: A Historical Review of the Authorship Theories

The Battle Over Shakespeare's Identity: A Historical...
Author: Geir Uthaug ISBN: 9781476697291 Format: Paperback	$131.87
How can anyone doubt that the world's greatest playwright wrote the plays attributed to him? William Shakespeare's... Read More >>

Select Religious Figures in History and Their Political Impacts as Dramatized in Major Mid 20th Century English Plays in their Contexts

Select Religious Figures in History and Their Political...
Author: Prashant Sinha ISBN: 9798902318576 Format: Paperback	$34.29
In an era of religious fanaticism, this book addresses the issue by showing the many ways in which several Mid 20th... Read More >>

The Spirit of Aristophanes

The Spirit of Aristophanes
Author: Mary C English (Professor of Classics and General Humanities, Montclair State University_x000D_) , Dustin W Dixon (Assistant Professor of Classics, Grinnell College) ISBN: 9781399511988 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Explores Aristophanic comedy and traces key features through Greek and Latin literature Read More >>

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy

Elevated Realms – An Anatomy of Mina Loy
Author: Sara Crangle (Professor of Modernism and the Avant-Garde, University of Sussex) ISBN: 9781399524339 Format: Paperback	$57.99
A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul Read More >>

Winsome Pinnock

Winsome Pinnock
Author: Kate Dorney ISBN: 9781032485119 Format: Paperback	$108.65
Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britain’s most important play-wrights and her four-decade... Read More >>

My Brother's a Genius

My Brother's a Genius
Author: Debris Stevenson ISBN: 9781350632035 Format: Paperback	$21.99
Poetry, grime and movement unite in Debris Stevenson’s explosive new play about learning to fall, fail and find... Read More >>

Select Religious Figures in History and Their Political Impacts as Dramatized in Major Mid 20th Century English Plays in their Contexts

Select Religious Figures in History and Their Political...
Author: Prashant Sinha ISBN: 9798902963783 Format: Hardback	$63.33
In an era of religious fanaticism, this book addresses the issue by showing the many ways in which several Mid 20th... Read More >>

The Unnatural Scene: A Study in Shakespearean Tragedy

The Unnatural Scene: A Study in Shakespearean Tragedy...
Author: Michael Long ISBN: 9781041277248 Format: Hardback	$217.32
Fifty years after its original publication in 1976, this excellent analysis of the psycho-social dimensions of Shakespearean... Read More >>

Directorless Shakespeare: Transformations through collective Embodied Literary Criticism

Directorless Shakespeare: Transformations through collective...
Author: Elena M. Pellone ISBN: 9781032771885 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeare’s theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural... Read More >>

Winsome Pinnock

Winsome Pinnock
Author: Kate Dorney ISBN: 9781032485126 Format: Hardback	$401.06
Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britain’s most important play-wrights and her four-decade... Read More >>

Engaging with Troy: Early Modern and Contemporary Scenes

Engaging with Troy: Early Modern and Contemporary Scenes...
Author: Francesca Rayner , Janice Valls-Russell ISBN: 9781839540912 Format: Hardback	$343.20
Shakespeare's time and ours each engage intensely with Troy. What both periods share is a view that the matter of... Read More >>

Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642: Commerce, Spectacle, and the Formation of the East India Company

Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642:...
Author: Amrita Sen ISBN: 9789048559336 Format: Hardback	$375.19
Situating itself against the transitional moment of first direct contact of English merchants with the Indian subcontinent,... Read More >>

A Tapestry of Summer Dreams

A Tapestry of Summer Dreams
Author: B T Roen ISBN: 9798233695971 Format: Paperback	$28.91
It's 2023 and Oberon's a sore loser... Take Midsummer Night's Dream, put it in a contemporary Percy Jackson-type... Read More >>

Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage: Transgressive Emotions in the Seventeenth Century

Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage: Transgressive Emotions...
Author: Tim Vergeer ISBN: 9789004749863 Format: Hardback	$330.00
Examining historical play performances and texts, Spanish Drama on the Dutch Stage demonstrates that seventeenth-century... Read More >>

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