Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition

Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition

Author: Stephen Greenblatt
ISBN: 9780691160245
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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Visions and Voices: Conversations With Fourteen Caribbean Playwrights

Visions and Voices: Conversations With Fourteen Caribbean...

Author: Olivier Stephenson ,  Kwame Dawes
ISBN: 9781845231736
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Presenting a compilation of interviews conducted from the late 1970s into the early 1980s, this study spotlights...  Read More >>

All's Well, That Ends Well: New Critical Essays

All's Well, That Ends Well: New Critical Essays

Author: Gary Waller (Purchase College State University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9780415645782
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Shedding much-needed light on one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing and significant plays, this book features contributions...  Read More >>

Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy: Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency

Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy: Women's Desire,...

Author: Peggy Thompson
ISBN: 9781611485516
Format: Paperback
$63.95

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Playing False: Representations of Betrayal

Playing False: Representations of Betrayal

Author: Christian Emden ,  David Midgley
ISBN: 9783034308670
Format: Paperback
$135.59

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Macbeth; Lines Pronounced Corrupt Restored,: Mutilations Before Unsuspected Amended, Also Some New Renderings

Macbeth; Lines Pronounced Corrupt Restored,: Mutilations...

Author: Matthias Mull
ISBN: 9781493794171
Format: Paperback
$26.37

An excerpt from the PREFACE: All the corrections of erroneous passages that I have ventured to make, will be found...  Read More >>

The New War Plays: From Kane to Harris

The New War Plays: From Kane to Harris

Author: J. Boll
ISBN: 9781137330017
Format: Hardback
$145.17

How can war be represented on stage? How does the theatre examine the structures leading to violence and war and...  Read More >>

The Light Princess

The Light Princess

Author: Samuel Adamson ,  Tori Amos
ISBN: 9780571309887
Format: Paperback
$25.85

The Light Princess brings together iconic singer-songwriter Tori Amos with playwright Samuel Adamson.  Read More >>

Chekhov & His Russia Ils 267

Chekhov & His Russia Ils 267

Author: W.H. Bruford
ISBN: 9780415868723
Format: Paperback
$96.99

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

John Dryden: The Critical Heritage

John Dryden: The Critical Heritage

Author: Helen and Kinsley Kinsley ,  James Kinsley
ISBN: 9780415867849
Format: Paperback
$46.99

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Caspar Brülow (1585-1627) und das Straßburger Akademietheater: Lutherische Konfessionalisierung und zeitgenössische Dramatik im akademischen und reichsstädtischen Umfeld

Caspar Brülow (1585-1627) und das Straßburger Akademietheater:...

Author: Michael Hanstein
ISBN: 9783110322927
Format: Hardback
$377.52

An nur wenigen Orten Deutschlands blühte die Theaterkultur der Frühen Neuzeit wie an der Straßburger Akademie unter...  Read More >>

Modern British Drama on Screen

Modern British Drama on Screen

Author: R. Barton Palmer (Clemson University, South Carolina) ,  William Robert Bray (Middle Tennessee State University)
ISBN: 9780511734311
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This is the first comprehensive treatment of British and American films adapted from modern British plays. The volume...  Read More >>

Touching and Being Touched: Kinesthesia and Empathy in Dance and Movement

Touching and Being Touched: Kinesthesia and Empathy...

Author: Gabriele Brandstetter ,  Gerko Egert
ISBN: 9783110291865
Format: Hardback
$403.89

Movement and touch are fundamental elements of dance - both for the dancers on stage and the spectators who are...  Read More >>

Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy

Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy

Author: Renaud Gagné (University of Cambridge) ,  Marianne Govers Hopman (Northwestern University, Illinois)
ISBN: 9781107033283
Format: Hardback
$271.69

A collection of essays exploring how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate...  Read More >>

G - J

G - J

Author: Wilhelm Kosch ,  Ingrid Bigler-Marschall
ISBN: 9783110287554
Format: Hardback
$1610.40

Der Nachtragsband zum Deutschen Theater-Lexikon erganzt und erweitert die Bande I - IV (A - T, erschienen zwischen...  Read More >>

The Shakespeare Epoch (1600-1625)

The Shakespeare Epoch (1600-1625)

Author: J C Stobart
ISBN: 9781493772223
Format: Paperback
$23.73

An excerpt from the PREFACE: The series of which this volume is the third may be said to have three objects: First,...  Read More >>

An Allegory of Othello

An Allegory of Othello

Author: Charles Creighton
ISBN: 9781493759699
Format: Paperback
$21.09

An excerpt from the Introduction: The allegory of 'Othello' is indeed the tragedy of the Sacrament. It was not...  Read More >>

Cape

Cape

Author: Inua Ellams (Author)
ISBN: 9781783190669
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009: Voices, Documents,...

Author: Prof. Dan Rebellato (Author, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) ,  Jacqueline Bolton (University of Lincoln, UK)
ISBN: 9781408129562
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Essential for students of theatre studies, this series of 6 decadal volumes provides a critical survey and study...  Read More >>

Law and Drama in Ancient Greece

Law and Drama in Ancient Greece

Author: Edward M. Harris ,  Delfim F. Leao
ISBN: 9781472524188
Format: Paperback
$61.99

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The Theatre of Martin Crimp

The Theatre of Martin Crimp

Author: Aleks Sierz (Author, Freelance arts journalist)
ISBN: 9781408184417
Format: Paperback
$54.99

First published in 2006, Alek's Sierz's The Theatre of Martin Crimp provided a groundbreaking study of one of British...  Read More >>

Gadda Goes to War: Translational Provocations Around An Emergency

Gadda Goes to War: Translational Provocations Around...

Author: Federica G Pedriali (Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies and Head of Italian, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780748668724
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Introduces and analyses stage performances of texts by Italian Modernist writer Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italy's own...  Read More >>

Ernst Toller and German Society: Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics, 1914–1939

Ernst Toller and German Society: Intellectuals as Leaders...

Author: Robert Ellis
ISBN: 9781611476354
Format: Hardback
$238.05

Between 1918 and 1939 Ernst Toller was one of Germany’s prominent left-wing intellectuals, He was a leader of the...  Read More >>

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