Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Beckett: A Study of his Plays

Beckett: A Study of his Plays

Author: John Fletcher ,  John Spurling
ISBN: 9781032747675
Format: Paperback
$82.77

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The Hero: A Theory of Tragedy

The Hero: A Theory of Tragedy

Author: Albert Beaumont
ISBN: 9781032915104
Format: Paperback
$82.77

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European Drama of the Early Middle Ages

European Drama of the Early Middle Ages

Author: Richard Axton
ISBN: 9781032945927
Format: Paperback
$82.77

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Troilus and Cressida(Illustrated)

Troilus and Cressida(Illustrated)

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Micheal Smith
ISBN: 9784320677920
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Illustrated Edition: Features 20 stunning illustrations, bringing the drama and characters of the story to life....  Read More >>

The Power of Love

The Power of Love

Author: Floyd R Oliver
ISBN: 9798896393658
Format: Paperback
$76.53

We all have a destiny waiting to be fulfilled and Rafe Hawkins, a young Brooklyn boy, is about to embark on a world-changing...  Read More >>

Drama and the Death of God: Secularity on Stage from Antiquity to Shakespeare

Drama and the Death of God: Secularity on Stage from...

Author: John Parker
ISBN: 9781501785290
Format: Paperback
$66.00

""Traces the long history of skepticism and unbelief in Christianity and Western culture that leads to Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Nineteenth-Century America: Discourse and Criticism

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Nineteenth-Century America:...

Author: Emeritus Professor Herbert Rowland
ISBN: 9781640142053
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Surveys the considerable nineteenth-century American discourse on and response to the writings of the German dramatist,...  Read More >>

You Will Get Sick

You Will Get Sick

Author: Noah Diaz
ISBN: 9781350618725
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A wildly imaginative new play by Noah Diaz that traces the hilarious and deeply moving saga of one man's illness...  Read More >>

William Shakspere and Robert Greene THE EVIDENCE

William Shakspere and Robert Greene THE EVIDENCE

Author: William Hall Chapman
ISBN: 9781025251653
Format: Paperback
$47.39

""William Shakspere and Robert Greene: the evidence"" by William Hall Chapman delves into one of the most persistent...  Read More >>

The New Art of Writing Plays

The New Art of Writing Plays

Author: Lope De Vega ,  Brander Matthews
ISBN: 9781025248509
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Delve into the core principles of dramatic technique with Lope de Vega's influential work, 'The new art of writing...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Dante's Spirit

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Dante's Spirit

Author: Marco Antonio Andreacchio
ISBN: 9781041246176
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book explores how Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet follows in the footsteps of Dante's revival of Platonic poetry....  Read More >>

Medea

Medea

Author: Euripides ,  J. Michael Walton
ISBN: 9781350523722
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Lauren Gunderson and Feminist Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

Lauren Gunderson and Feminist Theatre in the Twenty-First...

Author: Noelia Hernando-Real (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
ISBN: 9781009487405
Format: Paperback
$46.58

This Element is the first scholarly study of the theatre of Lauren Gunderson, one of the most produced US playwrights...  Read More >>

William Shakspere and Robert Greene THE EVIDENCE

William Shakspere and Robert Greene THE EVIDENCE

Author: William Hall Chapman
ISBN: 9781025251660
Format: Hardback
$81.71

""William Shakspere and Robert Greene: the evidence"" by William Hall Chapman delves into one of the most persistent...  Read More >>

American Performance in 1976: The Evolution of an Avant-Garde

American Performance in 1976: The Evolution of an Avant-Garde...

Author: Marc Robinson (Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781009490382
Format: Hardback
$245.81

A panoramic account of a single year uncommonly crowded with seminal works of performance. Surveying American drama,...  Read More >>

Lauren Gunderson and Feminist Theatre in the Twenty-First Century

Lauren Gunderson and Feminist Theatre in the Twenty-First...

Author: Noelia Hernando-Real (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
ISBN: 9781009487399
Format: Hardback
$142.31

This Element is the first scholarly study of the theatre of Lauren Gunderson, one of the most produced US playwrights...  Read More >>

The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire

The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire

Author: Anne Washburn (Author)
ISBN: 9781350625198
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A tender, funny, probing new play by renowned American playwright Anne Washburn (Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play)...  Read More >>

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 ,  Jenny Stevens (Open University UK)
ISBN: 9781350515246
Format: Paperback
$47.39

For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy offers up the variegated experiences of young...  Read More >>

Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging

Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging...

Author: Benjamin Gillespie ,  Cindy Rosenthal
ISBN: 9780472057962
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Examining age as an embodied and socially constructed identity, both on and off the stage  Read More >>

Pseudo-Seneca: Hercules on Oeta

Pseudo-Seneca: Hercules on Oeta

Author: Dr George W. M. Harrison (Carleton University, Canada) ,  Thomas Harrison (University of St Andrews UK)
ISBN: 9781350205659
Format: Hardback
$140.00

An accessible introduction to the Roman tragedy Hercules on Oeta with chapters on its contexts, key themes and reception....  Read More >>

Classicizing Shakespeare: Jean-François Ducis and the First European Adaptations

Classicizing Shakespeare: Jean-François Ducis and the...

Author: Michèle Willems (University of Rouen, France) ,  Professor Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
ISBN: 9781350337824
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book explores the nature and wide-ranging impact of the work of Jean-François Ducis, the first adaptor of Hamlet...  Read More >>

Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging

Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging...

Author: Benjamin Gillespie ,  Cindy Rosenthal
ISBN: 9780472077960
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Examining age as an embodied and socially constructed identity, both on and off the stage  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Senses

Shakespeare and the Senses

Author: Holly E. Dugan
ISBN: 9780866988940
Format: Hardback
$79.07

A study of how audiences of Shakespeare's time understood the sensual world of his plays. Could something as seemingly...  Read More >>

Antigone

Antigone

Author: Sophocles ,  Elizabeth Wyckoff
ISBN: 9780226844657
Format: Paperback
$19.95

Antigone, defying her uncle Creon's decree that her brother should remain unburied, challenges the morality of man's...  Read More >>

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