Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays & Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781414485652
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Each volume of Short Stories for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary...  Read More >>

Indigenous North American Drama: A Multivocal History

Indigenous North American Drama: A Multivocal History...

Author: Birgit Däwes
ISBN: 9781438446608
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Traces the historical dimensions of Native North American drama using a critical perspective.  Read More >>

A Lover's Complaint

A Lover's Complaint

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781494878320
Format: Paperback
$21.75

"This poem tells the story of a young women lamenting her love for a man who once charmed and abandoned her. As...  Read More >>

Yerma

Yerma

Author: Federico Garcia Lorca
ISBN: 9788499533872
Format: Paperback
$20.99

Follows a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness becomes a metaphor...  Read More >>

Sea Change: The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville

Sea Change: The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville

Author: Christoph Singer
ISBN: 9789042039049
Format: Paperback
$279.84

The coast as literary setting is more than a decorative space. Its utopian/dystopian nature, its liminality and...  Read More >>

Hölderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy: Readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Benjamin

Hölderlin and the Poetry of Tragedy: Readings in Sophocles,...

Author: Jeremy Tambling
ISBN: 9781845195878
Format: Hardback
$422.40

This study gives a detailed approach to Hölderlin's writings on Greek tragedy, especially Sophocles, whom he translated...  Read More >>

New Poetics of Chekhov's Major Plays: Presence Through Absence

New Poetics of Chekhov's Major Plays: Presence Through...

Author: Harai Golomb
ISBN: 9781903900475
Format: Hardback
$262.68

This text attempts to map the unique structure and meaning that comprise Chekhov's immensely rich artistic universe....  Read More >>

Solo/black/woman: Scripts, Interviews, and Essays

Solo/black/woman: Scripts, Interviews, and Essays

Author: E. Patrick Johnson ,  Ramón H. Rivera-Servera
ISBN: 9780810129474
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The collection solo/black/woman features seven solo performances by emerging and established feminist performance...  Read More >>

A Southern Life: Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981

A Southern Life: Letters of Paul Green, 1916-1981

Author: Laurence G. Avery
ISBN: 9781469613734
Format: Paperback
$224.40

Provides new insight into the life of North Carolina writer and activist Paul Green (1894-1981), the first southern...  Read More >>

The Tempest

The Tempest

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Daniel Fischlin (Professor, Department of English, Professor, Department of English, University of Guelph, Canadian)
ISBN: 9780199009978
Format: Paperback
$18.95

Combining reality and magic, Shakespeare creates an uncanny but morally coherent world through the The Tempest's...  Read More >>

Hamlet: Critical Essays

Hamlet: Critical Essays

Author: Joseph G. Price
ISBN: 9780415737463
Format: Hardback
$399.00

This collected wisdom was originally published in 1986. It contains pieces of commentary from as far back as the...  Read More >>

A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants at the Red Bull Theatre (c.1605–1619)

A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants...

Author: Eva Griffith
ISBN: 9781107041882
Format: Hardback
$144.90

This unique and colourful history tells the story of Thomas Heywood's playing company, the Queen's Servants, and...  Read More >>

Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674

Archaic Style in English Literature, 1590–1674

Author: Lucy Munro (Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Studies)
ISBN: 9781107042797
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Lucy Munro presents a wide-ranging study of literary style, exploring the conscious use of archaic language by poets...  Read More >>

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: University Study Edition

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: University Study Edition...

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781494796433
Format: Paperback
$34.29

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Suzan-Lori Parks in Person: Interviews and Commentaries

Suzan-Lori Parks in Person: Interviews and Commentaries...

Author: Philip Kolin (University of Southern Mississippi, USA) ,  Harvey Young (Northwestern University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415624930
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This collection of interviews offers unprecedented insight into the plays and creative works of Suzan-Lori Parks,...  Read More >>

Form and Meaning in Drama: A Study of Six Greek Plays and of Hamlet

Form and Meaning in Drama: A Study of Six Greek Plays...

Author: H. D. F. Kitto
ISBN: 9780415729369
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Analysing six Greek tragedies and Hamlet, this book also contains a chapter on the Greek and the Elizabethan dramatic...  Read More >>

Hamlet's Fictions

Hamlet's Fictions

Author: Maurice Charney
ISBN: 9780415732840
Format: Hardback
$168.00

This text emphasizes Hamlet's fantasies and imaginations rather than ethical criteria and the depiction of Hamlet...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Audience in Practice

Shakespeare and Audience in Practice

Author: Stephen Purcell (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9780230364042
Format: Paperback
$54.99

What do audiences do as they watch a Shakespearean play? It surveys some of the most influential ideas about spectatorship...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Hamlet bound with The Problem of Hamlet

Shakespeare's Hamlet bound with The Problem of Hamlet...

Author: A. Clutton-Brock ,  J. M. Robertson
ISBN: 9780415732796
Format: Hardback
$79.99

First Published in 1919. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Shakespeares Julius Caesar for Kids Plays 4

Shakespeares Julius Caesar for Kids Plays 4

Author: Brendan Kelso ,  Shana Hallmeyer
ISBN: 9780998137629
Format: Paperback
$31.65

WHO WILL YOU BE? Caesar? Brutus? The spooky soothsayer!? Julius Caesar like you have never experienced it before:...  Read More >>

As You Like It

As You Like It

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781494866662
Format: Paperback
$32.05

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's journey into the Forest of Arden....  Read More >>

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