Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest

On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The...

Author: Roger A. Stritmatter ,  Lynne Kositsky
ISBN: 9780786471041
Format: Paperback
$43.95

This book challenges a longstanding and deeply ingrained belief in Shakespearean studies that The Tempest - long...  Read More >>

Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives

Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives

Author: Lincoln Konkle ,  Jackson R. Bryer
ISBN: 9780810129214
Format: Hardback
$237.47

The essays in Thornton Wilder: New Perspectives constitute a comprehensive critical reassessment at a time of renewed...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools

Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools

Author: R. Bell
ISBN: 9781137346759
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools,...  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Belmont Press Belmont Press
ISBN: 9781623151751
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Shakespeare Made Clear brings Romeo and Juliet to life with: Complete original text of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Anti-Politics: Sovereign Power and the Life of the Flesh

Shakespeare's Anti-Politics: Sovereign Power and the...

Author: D. Gil
ISBN: 9781137275004
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form...  Read More >>

Romance on the Early Modern Stage: English Expansion Before and After Shakespeare

Romance on the Early Modern Stage: English Expansion...

Author: Cyrus Mulready
ISBN: 9781137322708
Format: Hardback
$145.17

What is dramatic romance? Scholars have long turned to Shakespeare's biography to answer this question, marking...  Read More >>

Selections from Plautus: With Introduction and Notes

Selections from Plautus: With Introduction and Notes...

Author: Plautus ,  K. M. Westaway
ISBN: 9781107620056
Format: Paperback
$43.99

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Author: Claire McEachern (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781107643321
Format: Paperback
$64.69

This updated Companion has been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship. With an extensively overhauled...  Read More >>

Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan

Author: Carolyn Williams (Gender Institute, London School of Economics, UK)
ISBN: 9781281958853
Format: Electronic book text
$105.55

Long before the satirical comedy of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan...  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781492350798
Format: Paperback
$23.76

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume....  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Author: Claire McEachern (University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9781107019775
Format: Hardback
$222.53

This updated Companion has been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship. With an extensively overhauled...  Read More >>

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781492333869
Format: Paperback
$15.84

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s most loved comedy. This edition...  Read More >>

King Lear

King Lear

Author: Sheba Blake ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781492339212
Format: Paperback
$23.76

Criticism, notes, and a bibliography accompany the text of the tragedy.  Read More >>

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781492335030
Format: Paperback
$21.12

""With detailed notes from the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies.""--Cover.  Read More >>

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781492334620
Format: Paperback
$23.76

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Valle-Inclan: The Captain's Daughter and the Dead Man's Finery

Valle-Inclan: The Captain's Daughter and the Dead Man's...

Author: Laura Lonsdale
ISBN: 9781908343246
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Las galas del difunto/ The Dead Man's Finery (1926) and La hija del capitán/ The Captain's Daughter (1927) are...  Read More >>

Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis

Dream in Shakespeare: From Metaphor to Metamorphosis...

Author: Marjorie Garber
ISBN: 9780300195439
Format: Paperback
$34.95

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The Assassination of Shakespeare's Patron: Investigating the Death of the Fifth Earl of Derby (Second Edition)

The Assassination of Shakespeare's Patron: Investigating...

Author: Leo Daugherty
ISBN: 9781604978469
Format: Hardback
$186.27

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Othello

Othello

Author: Ravell ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781492334934
Format: Paperback
$29.04

The Silly Shakespeare for Students edition of Othello simplifies the challenging tragedy without losing the complexity...  Read More >>

Hamlet: York Notes AS & A2 - for 2026, 2027 exams

Hamlet: York Notes AS & A2 - for 2026, 2027 exams

Author: Jeff Wood ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781447948872
Format: Paperback
$20.67

Now specifically tailored to AS & A2, York Notes on Hamlet provide everything you need to know about Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Art and Artifice in Shakespeare: A Study in Dramatic Contrast and Illusion

Art and Artifice in Shakespeare: A Study in Dramatic...

Author: Elmer Edgar Stoll
ISBN: 9781107619364
Format: Paperback
$56.93

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The Norse Hamlet

The Norse Hamlet

Author: Francois De Belleforest ,  Soren Filipski
ISBN: 9780615878911
Format: Paperback
$20.46

Shakespeare's Hamlet is not a wholly original story, but is the greatest retelling of the legend of Amleth, recorded...  Read More >>

Symbolic Allusion, Temporal Illusion: In The Lady of the Castle by Leah Goldberg And in a Selection of Modern Paintings

Symbolic Allusion, Temporal Illusion: In The Lady of...

Author: Dr Ruth Dorot
ISBN: 9781845196011
Format: Hardback
$422.40

This book draws parallels between literature and the arts, and between drama and painting, in terms of Time and...  Read More >>

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