Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom

Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom

Author: T. Burns
ISBN: 9781137320858
Format: Hardback
$158.37

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Shakespeare for the Seeker: Volume 2

Shakespeare for the Seeker: Volume 2

Author: Wes Jamroz
ISBN: 9780986967320
Format: Paperback
$52.67

How could the evolution of the human mind be described before Darwin's hypothesis was suggested? How could the functionality...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Identified: in Edward de Vere the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford

Shakespeare Identified: in Edward de Vere the Seventeenth...

Author: J Thomas Looney
ISBN: 9781628450002
Format: Paperback
$68.61

Reprint. Originally published in 1920 by Cecil Palmer, Oakley House, Bloomsbury St., London, W.C.I.  Read More >>

Translating the Theatre of the Spanish Golden Age: A Story of Chance and Transformation

Translating the Theatre of the Spanish Golden Age: A...

Author: David Johnston
ISBN: 9781783190362
Format: Paperback
$26.99

This new book by academic David Johnson, on the Spanish 'Golden Age' plays argues for the importance of these plays...  Read More >>

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays & Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism...

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9781414485621
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

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The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of Revolution

The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of...

Author: Carl Lavery ,  Maria M. Delgado
ISBN: 9780719090158
Format: Paperback
$36.99

""First published by Manchester University Press in hardback in 2010""--title page verso  Read More >>

Playing for Time: Stories of Lost Children, Ghosts and the Endangered Present in Contemporary Theatre

Playing for Time: Stories of Lost Children, Ghosts and...

Author: Geraldine Cousin ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719061981
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine...  Read More >>

Eight Men Speak: A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.

Eight Men Speak: A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.

Author: Alan Filewod ,  Oscar Ryan
ISBN: 9780776607962
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The first scholarly edition of the only play banned in Canada for political reasons.  Read More >>

The Linacre Quarterly, V28, No. 3, August, 1961: A Journal of the Philosophy and Ethics of Medical Practice

The Linacre Quarterly, V28, No. 3, August, 1961: A Journal...

Author: John J Flanagan ,  Jean Read
ISBN: 9781258690380
Format: Paperback
$40.92

Contributing Authors Include Thomas F. Casey, Joseph P. Donnelly, Roy Rihm, And Sister Josephina.  Read More >>

Commentary on Shakespeare's Richard III

Commentary on Shakespeare's Richard III

Author: Wolfgang Clemen
ISBN: 9780415852876
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Providing a detailed and rigorous analysis of Richard III, this Commentary reveals every nuance of meaning whilst...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Poetics: In relation to King Lear

Shakespeare's Poetics: In relation to King Lear

Author: Russell A Fraser
ISBN: 9780415853460
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This volume gives as complete an account as possible of the Shakespearian experience, particularly in terms of one...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Early Tragedies

Shakespeare's Early Tragedies

Author: Nicholas Brooke
ISBN: 9780415853484
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Shakespeare's Early Tragedies contains studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Richard...  Read More >>

Shakespeare the Dramatist: And other papers

Shakespeare the Dramatist: And other papers

Author: Una Ellis-Fermor ,  Kenneth Muir
ISBN: 9780415853477
Format: Paperback
$96.99

On her death, Professor Ellis-Fermor left behind some uncollected essays and part of a book on Shakespeare the Dramatist....  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Author: R. Federman ,  L. Graver
ISBN: 9780415852708
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989). Irish dramatist and poet. His use of the stage and dramatic narrative and symbolism...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Poetic Styles: Verse into Drama

Shakespeare's Poetic Styles: Verse into Drama

Author: John Baxter
ISBN: 9780415853491
Format: Paperback
$96.99

First published in 1980. At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's English: A Practical Linguistic Guide

Shakespeare's English: A Practical Linguistic Guide...

Author: Keith Johnson (University of Lancaster, UK)
ISBN: 9781408277355
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Shakespeare's English: A Practical Linguistic Guide provides students with a solid grounding for understanding the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Tragedies

Shakespeare's Tragedies

Author: G B Harrison
ISBN: 9780415853507
Format: Paperback
$96.99

G B Harrison here recognizes that Shakespeare's tragedies were intended for performance in a theatre and that the...  Read More >>

The Alchemist: A Critical Reader

The Alchemist: A Critical Reader

Author: Erin Julian ,  Professor Helen Ostovich
ISBN: 9781780938295
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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The Jew of Malta: A Critical Reader

The Jew of Malta: A Critical Reader

Author: Professor Robert A. Logan
ISBN: 9781441110794
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Christopher Marlowe’s drama, The Jew of Malta, has become an increasingly popular source for scholarly scrutiny,...  Read More >>

The Alchemist: A Critical Reader

The Alchemist: A Critical Reader

Author: Erin Julian ,  Professor Helen Ostovich
ISBN: 9781441154156
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Introducing the history of the play's performance and reception plus major topics in current scholarship, this is...  Read More >>

The Jew of Malta: A Critical Reader

The Jew of Malta: A Critical Reader

Author: Professor Robert A. Logan
ISBN: 9781441169396
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Christopher Marlowe’s drama, The Jew of Malta, has become an increasingly popular source for scholarly scrutiny,...  Read More >>

May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970

May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970

Author: David Hassler
ISBN: 9781606351871
Format: DVD-ROM
$65.87

On October 12, 2012, the play, May 4th Voices, was featured at the annual Oral History Association Conference in...  Read More >>

American ‘Unculture’ in French Drama: Homo Americanus and the Post-1960 French Resistance

American ‘Unculture’ in French Drama: Homo Americanus...

Author: Les Essif
ISBN: 9781137299024
Format: Hardback
$145.17

A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by...  Read More >>

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