Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23902 books were found.

August Wilson in Context

August Wilson in Context

Author: Khalid Y. Long (Howard University, Washington DC) ,  Isaiah Matthew Wooden (Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781009363242
Format: Paperback
$64.69

The authoritative guide to the singular career and artistic legacy of one of America's most celebrated playwrights,...  Read More >>

Arthur Miller’s New York: Visions of the City

Arthur Miller’s New York: Visions of the City

Author: Stephen Marino (Formerly of St Francis College, Brooklyn, USA)
ISBN: 9781350524767
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the...  Read More >>

""What Country, Friends, is This?"": Shakespeare and the Staging of Exile

""What Country, Friends, is This?"": Shakespeare and...

Author: Vanessa I. Corredera ,  Stephanie E. Chamberlain
ISBN: 9780866988858
Format: Hardback
$237.47

An exploration of displacement and exile in Shakespeare's plays and our world today. This compelling collection...  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 >>

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: 9798899480225
Format: Paperback
$95.04

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

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 >>

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 >>

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