Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Make It Fun Guide to Romeo and Juliet

The Make It Fun Guide to Romeo and Juliet

Author: Larry K Hartsfield Ph D
ISBN: 9780983919056
Format: Paperback
$18.45

The Make It Fun Guide to Romeo and Juliet is designed to make the play clear and understandable, and to help it...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Errant Texts: Textual Form and Linguistic Style in Shakespearean 'Bad' Quartos and Co-authored Plays

Shakespeare's Errant Texts: Textual Form and Linguistic...

Author: Lene B. Petersen (University of Southern Denmark)
ISBN: 9781107625556
Format: Paperback
$108.68

Where do Shakespeare's texts come from, what are their origins, and what are the factors surrounding their creation?...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan Performance of History

Shakespeare, the Queen's Men, and the Elizabethan Performance...

Author: Brian Walsh (Assistant Professor, Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781107629066
Format: Paperback
$108.68

Through innovative readings of plays including The Famous Victories of Henry V and Richard III, this book examines...  Read More >>

Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare

Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare

Author: James M. Bromley (Miami University)
ISBN: 9781107693852
Format: Paperback
$108.68

An important contribution to queer theory and the history of sexuality, this book investigates how Renaissance texts...  Read More >>

The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Early Modern Drama and Modern Cinema: Robert Greene's Theatre of Attractions

The Aesthetics of Spectacle in Early Modern Drama and...

Author: J. Sager
ISBN: 9781137332394
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Examining the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, this book argues that Greene's plays are innovative...  Read More >>

Ghosts

Ghosts

Author: Henrik Ibsen ,  Stephen Unwin (Author, Theatre Director)
ISBN: 9781783190522
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Oswald returns home from Paris to honour his dead father. As his mother begins to feel the presence of ghosts from...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Individualism

Shakespeare's Individualism

Author: Peter Holbrook (University of Queensland)
ISBN: 9781107630673
Format: Paperback
$108.68

Shakespeare, claims Peter Holbrook, is an author who cares above all for the value of individual freedom, the ideal...  Read More >>

The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett's Vagabonds and the Theater of Crisis

The Work of Poverty: Samuel Beckett's Vagabonds and...

Author: Lance Duerfahrd
ISBN: 9780814293393
Format: CD-ROM
$55.44

How did Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot come to be performed in such places as San Quentin Prison, Mississippi...  Read More >>

Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from...

Author: Paul Prescott (Dr, University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9781139108966
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Ranging from Garrick's Macbeth in the 1740s to the World Shakespeare Festival in 2012, this is an engaging account...  Read More >>

The Truth About William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction and Modern Biographies

The Truth About William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction and...

Author: David Ellis (Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury)
ISBN: 9780748646678
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information  Read More >>

Hannah More

Hannah More

Author: M. G. Jones
ISBN: 9781107622043
Format: Paperback
$72.42

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Law and the Modern Condition: Literary and Historical Perspectives

Law and the Modern Condition: Literary and Historical...

Author: Lawrence Friedman (Weill-Cornell Medical College Institute for Psychoanalytic Education and Private Practice New York City USA) ,  George Dargo
ISBN: 9781616193911
Format: Hardback
$93.02

xv, 266 pp. Using fiction as a lens to view our present circumstances and our growing concerns about terrorism and...  Read More >>

Shakspeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible

Shakspeare's Knowledge and Use of the Bible

Author: Charles Wordsworth, Bp. BP.
ISBN: 9781230272368
Format: Paperback
$36.09

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Sophocles: Philoctetes

Sophocles: Philoctetes

Author: Sophocles ,  Seth L. Schein (University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780521681438
Format: Paperback
$75.04

Accessible edition with commentary of this widely read but highly complex and challenging play. Provides help with...  Read More >>

Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, tragedy and murder in Georgian London

Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, tragedy and murder in...

Author: Ian Kelly
ISBN: 9780330517843
Format: Paperback
$43.96

A charming and hugely enjoyable account of one of the most extraordinary characters in English history - an 18th...  Read More >>

Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation

Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation...

Author: Dr. Pamela Bickley (The English Association) ,  Dr. Jenny Stevens (Open University, UK)
ISBN: 9781408158739
Format: Paperback
$54.99

An introductory critical study for first year undergraduates, aimed at bridging the increasing gap between A Level...  Read More >>

The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker

The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker

Author: Sophie Bush (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) ,  Debby Turner
ISBN: 9781408184790
Format: Paperback
$54.99

The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker offers the first comprehensive overview of Wertenbaker’s playwriting career...  Read More >>

Arthur Miller: 1962-2005

Arthur Miller: 1962-2005

Author: Christopher Bigsby
ISBN: 9780472035748
Format: Paperback
$97.55

The second volume in the definitive biography of the acclaimed playwright  Read More >>

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780007925469
Format: Paperback
$5.99

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.  Read More >>

Euripides: Alcestis

Euripides: Alcestis

Author: Niall W. Slater
ISBN: 9781780934730
Format: Paperback
$52.99

An accessible introduction which discusses this influential play's themes, historical context and modern critical...  Read More >>

The Kybalion: A Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

The Kybalion: A Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient...

Author: The Three Initiates ,  Mitch Horowitz
ISBN: 9798200625963
Format: Audio
$15.79

Hermes Trismegistus's teachings on the universe as described by three anonymous students he tutored.  Read More >>

The Kybalion: A Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

The Kybalion: A Study of Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient...

Author: The Three Initiates ,  Mitch Horowitz
ISBN: 9798200625970
Format: Audio
$15.79

Hermes Trismegistus's teachings on the universe as described by three anonymous students he tutored.  Read More >>

Sophocles: Philoctetes

Sophocles: Philoctetes

Author: Sophocles ,  Seth L. Schein (University of California, Davis)
ISBN: 9780521862776
Format: Hardback
$196.65

Accessible edition with commentary of this widely read but highly complex and challenging play. Provides help with...  Read More >>

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