Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life

Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life

Author: Alisa Zhulina
ISBN: 9780810146358
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Emerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and wider socioeconomic changes, modern drama enacted vital critiques...  Read More >>

Ill Weathers & Other Fates

Ill Weathers & Other Fates

Author: Blair Hamelink
ISBN: 9798989153169
Format: Paperback
$39.57

"In Ill Weathers & Other Fates, Blair Hamelink explores the floodgates of a tempestuous world he has conjured, blending...  Read More >>

Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781804470947
Format: Paperback
$12.94

Long before Shakespeare’s name was synonymous with the stage he built a name as a poet, and Venus and Adonis was...  Read More >>

Disavowing Authority in the Shakespeare Classroom

Disavowing Authority in the Shakespeare Classroom

Author: Huw Griffiths (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9781108948692
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element questions the role of authority in Shakespeare teaching. It connects an understanding of how Shakespearean...  Read More >>

Approaching the Interval in the Early Modern Theatre: The Significance of the 'Act-Time'

Approaching the Interval in the Early Modern Theatre:...

Author: Mark Hutchings (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
ISBN: 9781108791922
Format: Paperback
$43.99

In requiring artificial light, the early modern indoor theatre had to interrupt the action so that the candles could...  Read More >>

El sue�o de una noche de verano Shakespeare para ni�os: Shakespeare en un idioma que los ni�os entender�n y amar�n

El sue�o de una noche de verano Shakespeare para ni�os:...

Author: Jeanette Vigon ,  Jeanette Vigon
ISBN: 9798320974637
Format: Paperback
$21.09

"Descubra la magia con ""El sue�o de una noche de verano"", una narrativa que da vida a la m�stica de un bosque...  Read More >>

The Merry Wives Of Windsor Shakespeare for kids: Shakespeare in a language kids will understand and love

The Merry Wives Of Windsor Shakespeare for kids: Shakespeare...

Author: Jeanette Vigon
ISBN: 9798320783871
Format: Paperback
$24.26

"Jump into the funny and fantastic world of ""The Merry Wives of Windsor,"" where laughter and clever plans fill...  Read More >>

Bad Godots: ‘Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel' and Other Interventions

Bad Godots: ‘Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel' and Other...

Author: S. E. Gontarski (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781009180719
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element focuses on the machinery of that world, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process...  Read More >>

Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War

Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from...

Author: Erica Sheen (Professor of Literature and Film, Professor of Literature and Film, University of York)
ISBN: 9780198888611
Format: Hardback
$149.95

In this wide-ranging study, Erica Sheen explores the various ways in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

The Entremés for Performance: Translations of One-Act Plays from Golden Age Spain

The Entremés for Performance: Translations of One-Act...

Author: Kerry Wilks ,  Ian M. Borden
ISBN: 9781802074826
Format: Hardback
$297.56

These comic interludes highlight the politics, social commentary, and brilliant comedy of Spain's classical theater...  Read More >>

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky ,  Laurence Boswell
ISBN: 9781350500976
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Mad – Foolish – Ridiculous – I’ve been called many things. On an uneventful Wednesday in a drab Borough of East...  Read More >>

Comedy

Comedy

Author: L. J. Potts
ISBN: 9781032211367
Format: Paperback
$58.99

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Tragicomedy

Tragicomedy

Author: David L. Hirst
ISBN: 9781032217086
Format: Paperback
$58.99

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For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The...

Author: Ryan Calais Cameron
ISBN: 9781350508576
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Nominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier Awards I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in...  Read More >>

L'Art Du Rire: Aktualisierungen Der Komodie in Der Franzosischen Gegenwartsdramatik

L'Art Du Rire: Aktualisierungen Der Komodie in Der Franzosischen...

Author: Christiane Muller-Luneschloss
ISBN: 9783825395650
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Die international gefeierte Autorin Yasmina Reza steht mit ihren Stucken Art (1994) und Le dieu du carnage (2006)...  Read More >>

Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein: The Making of a Hollywood Monster

Peggy Webling and the Story behind Frankenstein: The...

Author: Peggy Webling ,  Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
ISBN: 9781350371644
Format: Hardback
$130.00

The 1931 Universal Pictures film adaptation of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and starring Boris Karloff as...  Read More >>

Xueqin and Xakespeare: Reading The Story of the Stone through Hamlet

Xueqin and Xakespeare: Reading The Story of the Stone...

Author: Judith Forsyth
ISBN: 9781032635545
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book offers a detailed consideration of the iconic five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin, translated into...  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Author: Conrad Murray
ISBN: 9781350507555
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Two Postcodes, two streets apart In dear Merton where our story starts. Beef from the past creates new tension....  Read More >>

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon

Author: Rosie Day
ISBN: 9781350502260
Format: Paperback
$21.99

And I think you can tell a lot about a person by what they choose to see in you. She was a 17 year old girl; the...  Read More >>

Practice

Practice

Author: Rosalind Brown
ISBN: 9781399614542
Format: Paperback
$29.99

An astonishing first novel about a day in the life of a young student who experiences her thoughts, her fantasies,...  Read More >>

Wasps and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes

Wasps and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with...

Author: Aristophanes ,  Prof Stephen Halliwell (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews)
ISBN: 9780198900221
Format: Paperback
$21.95

This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes by Stephen Halliwell....  Read More >>

Hamlet: Staged: the origins of YA’s greatest tropes

Hamlet: Staged: the origins of YA’s greatest tropes...

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780241682098
Format: Paperback
$19.99

STAGED- Timeless tropes, enduring stories - a new Puffin Classics collection 'Something is rotten in the state...  Read More >>

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