Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire: Adaptation and Other Futures of Shakespeare's Language

Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire: Adaptation and Other...

Author: S. Ryle
ISBN: 9781137332059
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 66, Working with Shakespeare: Working with Shakespeare

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 66, Working with Shakespeare:...

Author: Peter Holland
ISBN: 9781107041738
Format: Hardback
$238.02

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Four Tudor Interludes

Four Tudor Interludes

Author: J. A. B. Somerset
ISBN: 9781472506993
Format: Hardback
$280.00

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Sonnets to a Young Man

Sonnets to a Young Man

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Dr Keith Hale
ISBN: 9781494389123
Format: Paperback
$21.09

By the beginning of the Twentieth Century, almost anyone in England who knew anything about Shakespeare knew that...  Read More >>

Seneca (Routledge Revivals)

Seneca (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Costa C.D.N.
ISBN: 9780415744683
Format: Hardback
$378.00

This volume, first published in 1974, offers a selection of modern perspectives on Seneca, covering his prose treatises,...  Read More >>

Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals): Plebian Culture and The Structure of Authority in Renaissance England

Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals): Plebian Culture...

Author: Michael D. Bristol (McGill University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415750103
Format: Hardback
$315.00

In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's America, America's Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals)

Shakespeare's America, America's Shakespeare (Routledge...

Author: Michael D. Bristol (McGill University, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415750172
Format: Hardback
$200.00

First published in 1990, this title explores the nature of the interaction between Shakespeare and American culture....  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Last Plays

Shakespeare's Last Plays

Author: Eustace M. Tillyard
ISBN: 9781472510402
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Shakespeare’s Last Plays was the first of E. M. W. Tilyard’s influential works on Shakespeare. In it, Dr Tilyard...  Read More >>

Coriolanus' in Europe

Coriolanus' in Europe

Author: David Daniell
ISBN: 9781472507310
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Coriolanus has always attracted strong interest, whether seen as the last of Shakespeare’s tragedies, or as his...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Story: Aspects of Creation

Shakespeare and the Story: Aspects of Creation

Author: Joan Rees
ISBN: 9781472506542
Format: Hardback
$280.00

It is a commonplace of Shakespeare criticism that he invented few of the plots of his plays and the sources he drew...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'

Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure'

Author: Mary Lascelles
ISBN: 9781472506214
Format: Hardback
$280.00

In devoting a whole book to Measure for Measure Miss Lascelles has expressed her conviction that in no other way...  Read More >>

The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett

The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett

Author: Katharine Worth
ISBN: 9781472509697
Format: Hardback
$280.00

This study provides a European perspective on the drama of Yeats and of the Irish playwrights – Wilde and Synge,...  Read More >>

Hamlet Closely Observed

Hamlet Closely Observed

Author: Martin Dodsworth
ISBN: 9781472507730
Format: Hardback
$280.00

A major interpretative account of Shakespeare's play, this is a close scrutiny which will engage readers directly...  Read More >>

The Making of Menander's Comedy

The Making of Menander's Comedy

Author: Sander M. Goldberg (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
ISBN: 9781472514295
Format: Hardback
$280.00

The discovery on papyrus of plays by Menander, the greatest writer of Greek New Comedy, at last makes possible an...  Read More >>

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Simon Helberg
ISBN: 9781580819282
Format: Audio
$79.07

A pocket, hardback edition of one of Shakespeare's best-loved plays.  Read More >>

Reading Godot

Reading Godot

Author: Lois Gordon
ISBN: 9780300206418
Format: Paperback
$45.95

An introduction to ""Waiting for Godot"" for general readers, students and specialists. Critically and historically...  Read More >>

Religion Around Shakespeare

Religion Around Shakespeare

Author: Peter Iver Kaufman (University of Richmond)
ISBN: 9780271061825
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Examines the historic and religious context surrounding the work of William Shakespeare.  Read More >>

Checking out Chekhov: A Guide to the Plays for Actors, Directors, and Readers

Checking out Chekhov: A Guide to the Plays for Actors,...

Author: Sharon Marie Carnicke
ISBN: 9781618113207
Format: Paperback
$52.99

This book paints a vivid portrait of Anton Chekhov-a Russian writer whose elusive personality and richly detailed...  Read More >>

Philaster: OR, Love lies a Bleeding.

Philaster: OR, Love lies a Bleeding.

Author: John Fletcher (University of Warwick UK) ,  Francis Beaumont
ISBN: 9781494324322
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Philaster: OR, Love lies a Bleeding. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Brand New Edition Philaster, or Love Lies...  Read More >>

The Pigeon

The Pigeon

Author: John Galsworthy
ISBN: 9781492308546
Format: Paperback
$21.09

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

Iconocalstes

Iconocalstes

Author: Hubert Griffith
ISBN: 9780415848275
Format: Paperback
$46.99

The main argument in this book is that Shakespeare's work is of such intense vitality that it is always modern....  Read More >>

A Companion to the Works of Max Frisch

A Companion to the Works of Max Frisch

Author: Professor Olaf Berwald (Customer)
ISBN: 9781571134189
Format: Hardback
$316.80

A comprehensive advanced introduction to and scholarly commentary on the work of the Swiss writer Max Frisch, one...  Read More >>

Howard Barker's Art of Theatre: Essays on His Plays, Poetry and Production Work

Howard Barker's Art of Theatre: Essays on His Plays,...

Author: David Rabey ,  Sarah Goldingay
ISBN: 9780719089299
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This collection of essays provides international perspectives on the full range of Barker's achievements, theatrical...  Read More >>

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