Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23622 books were found.

Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime

Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime

Author: Alessandra Zanobi
ISBN: 9781306723749
Format: Electronic book text
$279.84

Pantomime was arguably the most popular dramatic genre during the Roman Empire, but has been relatively neglected...  Read More >>

Euripides Our Contemporary

Euripides Our Contemporary

Author: J Michael Walton (University of Hull)
ISBN: 9781306728522
Format: Electronic book text
$216.48

'In this masterful reevaluation of Euripides, Michael Walton recasts the playwright in light of his resonance for...  Read More >>

Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan

Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan

Author: Tutor in English and Fellow Katherine Duncan-Jones (Somerville College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9781306728546
Format: Electronic book text
$699.60

In modern life we are all too familiar with ideas of image and celebrity. This highly original study investigates...  Read More >>

Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning: An Introduction to the Study of Shakespeare's Dramatic Structures

Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning: An Introduction to...

Author: Department of English and American Studies Leah Scragg (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781306786003
Format: Electronic book text
$570.11

In this useful guide, Leah Scragg indicates some of the ways in which meaning is generated in Shakespearian drama...  Read More >>

Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time

Making Make-Believe Real: Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's...

Author: Professor of History Garry Wills (Northwestern University)
ISBN: 9781306828000
Format: Electronic book text
$79.20

Shakespeare s plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their...  Read More >>

The Sound of Shakespeare

The Sound of Shakespeare

Author: Wes Folkerth
ISBN: 9781306853446
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

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Rebel Women

Rebel Women

Author: Stephen Wilmer ,  Regius Professor of Greek John Dillon, Sir (Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College, Dublin)
ISBN: 9781306873352
Format: Electronic book text
$253.44

Presents essays by leading writers and academics examining the stagingof Greek drama. This book presents a collection...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy and the Emotions: An Introductory Study: An Introductory Study

Greek Tragedy and the Emotions: An Introductory Study:...

Author: W B Stanford
ISBN: 9781306883122
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

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Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama: A Study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard

Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama: A Study of Harold...

Author: Mufti Mudasir
ISBN: 9781306907224
Format: Electronic book text
$190.50

Arguing for the application of Linda Hutcheon's model of postmodernism to the study of drama, this book shows that...  Read More >>

Shakespearean Tragedy

Shakespearean Tragedy

Author: John Drakakis (University of Stirling, UK)
ISBN: 9781306969093
Format: Electronic book text
$585.95

Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a...  Read More >>

American Drama of the Twentieth Century

American Drama of the Twentieth Century

Author: Gerald M Berkowitz
ISBN: 9781306969604
Format: Electronic book text
$601.79

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Shakespeare at Work, 1592-1603

Shakespeare at Work, 1592-1603

Author: George Bagshaw Harrison
ISBN: 9781322074047
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

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Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton

Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton

Author: Nancy Mohrlock Bunker
ISBN: 9781322037011
Format: Electronic book text
$211.17

In paired discussions of marriage plays by Shakespeare and Middleton, this book explores the maneuvers that marriageable...  Read More >>

Shylock on the Stage

Shylock on the Stage

Author: Toby Lelyveld
ISBN: 9781322057750
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

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No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett

No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from...

Author: Mark Axelrod
ISBN: 9781322027791
Format: Electronic book text
$178.20

An homage to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, this collection of essays sheds new light on canonical authors such...  Read More >>

A Preface to Marlowe

A Preface to Marlowe

Author: Stevie Simkin, Dr
ISBN: 9781322033839
Format: Electronic book text
$467.15

This study provides an authoritative overview of all Marlowe's work. It includes thorough investigations of his...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's 'Whores': Erotics, Politics, and Poetics

Shakespeare's 'Whores': Erotics, Politics, and Poetics...

Author: Kay Stanton
ISBN: 9781322047751
Format: Electronic book text
$224.40

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Shakespeare in Performance: Castings and Metamorphoses

Shakespeare in Performance: Castings and Metamorphoses...

Author: Ralph Berry
ISBN: 9781322057934
Format: Electronic book text
$277.20

These studies of Shakespeare in performance take stage history as a means of knowing the play. Half of these studies...  Read More >>

King Lear

King Lear

Author: W. William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9787510071676
Format: Paperback
$23.16

One of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, this title turns on the practical ramifications of the words of...  Read More >>

Terence: Hecyra

Terence: Hecyra

Author: Terence ,  Sander M. Goldberg (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780521721660
Format: Paperback
$69.86

The social, literary and theatrical issues raised by this play, such as its treatment of women and bold experiments...  Read More >>

Twelfth Night: A Critical Reader

Twelfth Night: A Critical Reader

Author: Professor Alison Findlay (Lancaster University, UK) ,  Dr Liz Oakley-Brown (Senior Lecturer)
ISBN: 9781472503299
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Twelfth Night is the most mature and fully developed of Shakespeare's comedies and, as well as being one of his...  Read More >>

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