Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781494462086
Format: Paperback
$15.81

Viola survives a shipwreck, but she thinks her twin brother Sebastian has died.  Read More >>

Speaking the Speech: An Actor's Guide to Shakespeare

Speaking the Speech: An Actor's Guide to Shakespeare...

Author: Giles Block ,  Mark Rylance
ISBN: 9781322392073
Format: Electronic book text
$57.71

The most authoritative, most comprehensive book yet written on the practicality of speaking Shakespeare.  Read More >>

Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body

Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean...

Author: Sujata Iyengar (University of Georgia, USA)
ISBN: 9781322435190
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation

Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation

Author: Alexa Huang ,  Elizabeth Rivlin
ISBN: 9781322295596
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

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End of Satisfaction

End of Satisfaction

Author: Heather Hirschfeld
ISBN: 9781322522548
Format: Electronic book text
$145.20

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Commentary on the Complete Greek Tragedies. Aeschylus

Commentary on the Complete Greek Tragedies. Aeschylus...

Author: Professor James C Hogan, Ph.D. ,  Aeschylus
ISBN: 9781322523774
Format: Electronic book text
$118.80

This commentary offers a rich introduction and useful guide to the seven surviving plays attributed to Aeschylus....  Read More >>

Shakespeare S Medieval Craft

Shakespeare S Medieval Craft

Author: Kurt A Schreyer
ISBN: 9781322504056
Format: Electronic book text
$131.87

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Menander, New Comedy and the Visual

Menander, New Comedy and the Visual

Author: Antonis K Petrides (Open University of Cyprus)
ISBN: 9781322293547
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

Shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis...  Read More >>

Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeare S History Plays

Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship...

Author: Urszula Kizelbach
ISBN: 9781322339450
Format: Electronic book text
$219.12

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Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things

Author: R Allen Shoaf ,  Richard Allen Shoaf
ISBN: 9781322216317
Format: Electronic book text
$202.41

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between...  Read More >>

Tain of Hamlet

Tain of Hamlet

Author: Laurie Johnson (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
ISBN: 9781322216799
Format: Electronic book text
$238.15

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Timon of Athens

Timon of Athens

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781322318851
Format: Electronic book text
$7.92

A tragedy about Timon of Athens. Written by William Shakespeare in collaboration with another author, maybe Thomas...  Read More >>

American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice

American Playwriting and the Anti-Political Prejudice...

Author: Nelson Pressley
ISBN: 9781322576985
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Staged Spaces and Playgoers' Perceptions

Shakespeare's Staged Spaces and Playgoers' Perceptions...

Author: Darlene Farabee
ISBN: 9781322577791
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

This engaging study offers fresh readings of canonical Shakespeare plays, illuminating ways stagecraft and language...  Read More >>

Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence of Modern Culture

Figures of a Changing World: Metaphor and the Emergence...

Author: Professor Emeritus of Literature and Art History Harry Berger Jr (University of California, Santa Cruz) ,  Jr Harry Berger
ISBN: 9781322965307
Format: Electronic book text
$269.28

'Figures of a Changing World' offers a dramatic new account of culture change, an account based on the distinction...  Read More >>

Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy: From Lear to Leviathan

Rethinking Shakespeare's Political Philosophy: From...

Author: Dr Alex Schulman
ISBN: 9781322981475
Format: Electronic book text
$316.77

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Women and Dramatic Production 1550 - 1700

Women and Dramatic Production 1550 - 1700

Author: Alison Findlay (Lancaster University) ,  Professor Stephanie Hodgson-Wright
ISBN: 9781322165714
Format: Electronic book text
$514.67

There is a traditional view that women were absent from the field of dramatic production in the early modern period...  Read More >>

Brecht on Performance

Brecht on Performance

Author: Deceased Bertolt Brecht ,  Tom Kuhn
ISBN: 9781336210691
Format: Electronic book text
$279.84

Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents a selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors...  Read More >>

Securing Africa: Local Crises and Foreign Interventions

Securing Africa: Local Crises and Foreign Interventions...

Author: Toyin Falola (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) ,  Charles Thomas (United States Military Academy, West Point, USA)
ISBN: 9780415817677
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Africa has been and currently is the site of numerous conflicts and crises. Authors previously wrote of these as...  Read More >>

What Would Shakespeare say?: Hamlet's Words, Words, Words; What They Mean and When to Use Them

What Would Shakespeare say?: Hamlet's Words, Words,...

Author: Alex Kleider ,  Dr Paul Nelson (James Cook University)
ISBN: 9781491234365
Format: Paperback
$34.29

This book of the best quotes from Shakespeare's Hamlet with explanations of what they mean in context of the play...  Read More >>

Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress

Renaissance Shakespeare/Shakespeare Renaissances: Proceedings...

Author: Martin Procházka ,  Andreas Hoefele
ISBN: 9781644530573
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Apart from readings of Shakespeare's plays and poems, this book maps Renaissance contexts of his art in politics,...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare ,  1stworldlibrary
ISBN: 9781421850504
Format: Paperback
$28.91

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The Tragedy of Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare ,  1stworldlibrary
ISBN: 9781421851488
Format: Hardback
$68.51

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Sex Plays

Sex Plays

Author: Eric Bogosian
ISBN: 9781559364140
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Two new plays by legendary playwright and monologist, Eric Bogosian.  Read More >>

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