Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker

The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker

Author: Sophie Bush (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) ,  Debby Turner
ISBN: 9781408189641
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker offers the first comprehensive overview of Wertenbaker’s playwriting career...  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: 9781472520272
Format: Hardback
$170.00

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

Euripides: Alcestis

Euripides: Alcestis

Author: Niall W. Slater
ISBN: 9781780934723
Format: Hardback
$190.00

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

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Belmont Press Belmont Press
ISBN: 9781623152246
Format: Paperback
$31.65

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

The Annals of English Drama 975-1700

The Annals of English Drama 975-1700

Author: Sylvia Stoler Wagonheim
ISBN: 9780415861878
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy

The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy

Author: Hanna M. Roisman (Colby College, USA)
ISBN: 9781444335927
Format: Hardback
$858.95

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Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism

Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism

Author: Joseph M. Ortiz
ISBN: 9781409455813
Format: Hardback
$336.00

How theatre directors, actors, poets, women writers, political philosophers, gallery owners and other professionals...  Read More >>

The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing

The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing...

Author: Simon Critchley ,  Jamieson Webster
ISBN: 9781781682562
Format: Hardback
$32.99

""A serious provocation to both the biscuit-box Shakespeare industry and, more widely, to contemporary literary...  Read More >>

Henry IV, Part One: (1958)

Henry IV, Part One: (1958)

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Carol Singley
ISBN: 9781554810512
Format: Paperback
$46.20

Rosemary Gaby provides an engaging guide to the real-life sources, literary contexts, and performance history of...  Read More >>

Adaptations of Laurence Sterne's Fiction: Sterneana, 1760–1840

Adaptations of Laurence Sterne's Fiction: Sterneana,...

Author: Mary-Celine Newbould
ISBN: 9781409455837
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth century, Newbould focuses...  Read More >>

The Taming of the Shrew: Critical Essays

The Taming of the Shrew: Critical Essays

Author: Dana Aspinall
ISBN: 9781136535406
Format: Electronic book text
$59.35

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on the Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive...  Read More >>

Twelfth Night and Richard III Limited Edition Set: Shakespeare on Broadway

Twelfth Night and Richard III Limited Edition Set: Shakespeare...

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781472568540
Format: Mixed media product
$105.60

A unique limited edition to coincide with the Broadway runs of Shakespeare's Globe production of Twelfth Night and...  Read More >>

The Faustian Motif in the Tragedies by Christopher Marlowe

The Faustian Motif in the Tragedies by Christopher Marlowe...

Author: Milena Kaličanin
ISBN: 9781443849500
Format: Hardback
$179.39

The Faustian Motif in the Tragedies by Christopher Marlowe discusses the argument that the pact with demonic forces,...  Read More >>

Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground

Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground

Author: V. Angelaki
ISBN: 9781137010124
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse...  Read More >>

The Complete Smoking Diaries

The Complete Smoking Diaries

Author: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847088482
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-first Century: ""By Succession of Delight""

Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-first Century:...

Author: Min Wild ,  Noel Chevalier
ISBN: 9781611485196
Format: Hardback
$151.99

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Who Wrote Marlowe?: The Mystery of Christopher Marlowe

Who Wrote Marlowe?: The Mystery of Christopher Marlowe...

Author: Richard Unwin
ISBN: 9781492877264
Format: Paperback
$26.40

THE MYSTERY OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Generations of students have been regaled with the literary magnificence of Christopher...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Science: A Study of Shakespeare's Interest in, and Literary and Dramatic Use of, Natural Phenomena; with an Account of the Astronomy, Astrology, and Alchemy of his Day, and his Attitude towards these Sciences

Shakespeare and Science: A Study of Shakespeare's Interest...

Author: Cumberland Clark
ISBN: 9781906267391
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Cumberland Clark (1862-1941) was a passionate scholar of Shakespeare. Shakespeare and Science was his monumental...  Read More >>

The York Plays: A Critical Edition of the York Corpus Christi Play as recorded in British Library Additional MS 35290, Volume 2

The York Plays: A Critical Edition of the York Corpus...

Author: Richard Beadle (Reader in Medieval Literature and Historical Bibliography in the Faculty of English, The University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780199590360
Format: Hardback
$176.95

The authoritative, standard text of this cycle of religious dramas, one of the great literary and theatrical monuments...  Read More >>

Women Reading Shakespeare 1660–1900: An Anthology of Criticism

Women Reading Shakespeare 1660–1900: An Anthology of...

Author: Ann Thompson ,  Sasha Roberts
ISBN: 9780719047046
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Comprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare.  Read More >>

Loki's Laughter

Loki's Laughter

Author: John Opskar ,  John Opskar
ISBN: 9780615896878
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Jari Anderson, lived a quiet life with her dog, Gerard, in their Alaskan home. Mistrustful and slightly damaged,...  Read More >>

Going Down to Morocco

Going Down to Morocco

Author: Jose Luis Alonso de de Santos ,  Duncan Wheeler
ISBN: 9781908343260
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Going Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent...  Read More >>

Wieland-Studien / Band 8: Aufsatze O Texte Und Dokumente

Wieland-Studien / Band 8: Aufsatze O Texte Und Dokumente...

Author: Klaus Manger
ISBN: 9783825362584
Format: Hardback
$102.96

This eighth volume of the ""Wieland Studien"" (Wieland studies) focuses on Christoph Martin Wieland's Shakespeare...  Read More >>

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