Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23894 books were found.

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 >>

Oscar Wilde: A Companion

Oscar Wilde: A Companion

Author: Heather Marcovitch
ISBN: 9781476688695
Format: Paperback
$158.27

The author of short stories, children's literature, philosophical essays, plays, and The Picture of Dorian Gray,...  Read More >>

The English Religious Drama

The English Religious Drama

Author: Katharine Lee Bates
ISBN: 9781025467306
Format: Paperback
$60.59

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.  Read More >>

About Shakespeare and His Plays

About Shakespeare and His Plays

Author: G F Bradby
ISBN: 9781025255682
Format: Hardback
$81.71

""About Shakespeare and His Plays"" is a thoughtful and accessible guide designed to help readers navigate the vast...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida

The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida

Author: Jackson J Campbell
ISBN: 9781025467061
Format: Hardback
$84.35

""The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida"" is a complex and philosophical drama set during the later years of the Trojan...  Read More >>

Die Berner Trilogie: Erstedition Und Kommentar

Die Berner Trilogie: Erstedition Und Kommentar

Author: Lina Matzke ,  Bjorn Reich
ISBN: 9783757400897
Format: Hardback
$192.72

Die Berner Trilogie ist ein ausserordentliches Beispiel des reformierten geistlichen Spiels; ihre Edition liefert...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Censor: Edmund Tilney’s Intelligence Manual

Shakespeare’s Censor: Edmund Tilney’s Intelligence Manual...

Author: W.R. Streitberger
ISBN: 9781041099802
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book situates Tilney’s intelligence manual in the emerging genre that developed around intelligence gathering...  Read More >>

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

This is the first in-depth study exploring the theatrical afterlives of nineteenth-century women novelists--including...  Read More >>

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 >>

The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd: Volume Two

The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd: Volume Two

Author: Sir Brian Vickers, FBA ,  Dr Darren Freebury-Jones
ISBN: 9781843846956
Format: Hardback
$633.60

First, complete, integrated corpus of this major Elizabethan writer and first critical edition of his collected...  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 >>

About Shakespeare and His Plays

About Shakespeare and His Plays

Author: G F Bradby
ISBN: 9781025257822
Format: Paperback
$47.39

""About Shakespeare and His Plays"" is a thoughtful and accessible guide designed to help readers navigate the vast...  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

A thought-provoking new assessment of this important Greek dramatic text by a major scholar.  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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