Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and Scottish Theatre

Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in Early English and...

Author: Dr Philip Butterworth (University of Leeds, UK)
ISBN: 9781350565432
Format: Hardback
$160.00

This revised edition investigates first-hand evidence of the use of special effects in fire and flame in medieval...  Read More >>

Lost Plays of Old Comedy

Lost Plays of Old Comedy

Author: Matthew C. Farmer (Haverford College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350378926
Format: Hardback
$150.00

A study of the fragments of Old Comedy, arguing that these fragments greatly enlarge our understanding of the history...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Studies: Volume 53

Shakespeare Studies: Volume 53

Author: Diana E. Henderson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) ,  James R. Siemon
ISBN: 9781683939917
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Volume 53 of the academic journal devoted to Shakespeare and Early Modern English Drama, Culture and Literature,...  Read More >>

Ibsen Apocalypse: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller's Six-Hundred-Year Mission to Raise the Ghosts of Modernity

Ibsen Apocalypse: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller's Six-Hundred-Year...

Author: Andrew Friedman ,  Andrew Lane Friedman
ISBN: 9798899480232
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Ibsen Apocalypse historicizes the twenty-first century's most audacious theater work to trace the legacies of modernism's...  Read More >>

The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 3

The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare...

Author: Katherine Gillen ,  Adrianna M. Santos
ISBN: 9780866988926
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The third volume in the anthology, featuring a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands...  Read More >>

Nice Things: A Queer Love Story

Nice Things: A Queer Love Story

Author: Luke Hereford
ISBN: 9781350633742
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A new electric play, NICE THINGS explores the relationship of a gay couple, in the midst of their comfortable years,...  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 >>

The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 3

The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare...

Author: Katherine Gillen ,  Adrianna M. Santos
ISBN: 9780866988919
Format: Hardback
$237.47

The third volume in the anthology, featuring a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands...  Read More >>

The Navigator Project: 10 Short Plays and Essays about Health Inequity

The Navigator Project: 10 Short Plays and Essays about...

Author: Fishamble: The New Play Company
ISBN: 9781350643086
Format: Paperback
$33.61

A collection of 10 short plays and essay commissioned by Fishamble in discussion of healthcare inequality, this...  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 >>

Queering the South: Case Studies with Emma Dante

Queering the South: Case Studies with Emma Dante

Author: Alice Parrinello
ISBN: 9781803741321
Format: Paperback
$116.44

This monograph analyses the films and plays of Sicilian director Emma Dante by adopting a queer approach and focusing...  Read More >>

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes on the Early Modern Stage

Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes...

Author: Nathan Pensky (Adjunct Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University)
ISBN: 9781399556965
Format: Hardback
$219.00

Reassesses Cartesian subjectivity as an important critical lens for the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

Picture of Nobody

Picture of Nobody

Author: Philip Owens ,  Allen Bratton
ISBN: 9781961341883
Format: Paperback
$50.16

Transposed into the early twentieth century, a nonentity named Shakespeare rails against poverty, mediocrity, and...  Read More >>

ICSE Julius Caesar Workbook Part - 2 (For Class X): (Acts III, IV and V)

ICSE Julius Caesar Workbook Part - 2 (For Class X):...

Author: Wallace Jacob
ISBN: 9798903197026
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a treatise on: the power of rhetoric, transformation, decision-making, human psychology,...  Read More >>

Restoration Women’s Drama: Four Plays, 1662–1677

Restoration Women’s Drama: Four Plays, 1662–1677

Author: Aphra Behn ,  Frances Boothby
ISBN: 9781649591371
Format: Paperback
$184.67

This anthology of four plays written or performed between 1662 and 1677 offers a unique snapshot of the diverse...  Read More >>

ICSE Julius Caesar Workbook Part - 2 (For Class X): (Acts III, IV and V)

ICSE Julius Caesar Workbook Part - 2 (For Class X):...

Author: Wallace Jacob
ISBN: 9798903629176
Format: Hardback
$76.53

Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a treatise on: the power of rhetoric, transformation, decision-making, human psychology,...  Read More >>

Living Death in Early Modern Drama

Living Death in Early Modern Drama

Author: James Alsop
ISBN: 9781032071695
Format: Paperback
$119.00

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Women in Molière’s Comedies: How Little Do You Know a Woman’s Heart!

Women in Molière’s Comedies: How Little Do You Know...

Author: Diana Koloini
ISBN: 9781032578064
Format: Paperback
$119.00

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The Making of Samuel Beckett's Murphy

The Making of Samuel Beckett's Murphy

Author: Dirk Van Hulle
ISBN: 9789004761001
Format: Hardback
$330.00

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Ibsen in Context

Ibsen in Context

Author: Narve Fulsås ,  Tore Rem (Universitetet i Oslo)
ISBN: 9781108434737
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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Chekhov in Context

Chekhov in Context

Author: Yuri Corrigan (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781108820462
Format: Paperback
$77.60

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Euripides and Quotation Culture

Euripides and Quotation Culture

Author: Dr Matthew Wright (University of Exeter, UK) ,  David Taylor
ISBN: 9781350441217
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Presenting a new approach to Euripides’ plays, this book explores the playwright’s ancient tragedies in relation...  Read More >>

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