Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Computational Drama Analysis: Reflecting on Methods and Interpretations

Computational Drama Analysis: Reflecting on Methods...

Author: Melanie Andresen ,  Nils Reiter
ISBN: 9783111071763
Format: Hardback
$242.85

Work on drama has always been at the forefront of research in computational literary studies. The explicit structure...  Read More >>

Magie-Theater Im 17. Jahrhundert: Frühneuzeitliche Illusionierungs- Und Inszenierungsstrategien in Spanien Und Frankreich

Magie-Theater Im 17. Jahrhundert: Frühneuzeitliche Illusionierungs-...

Author: Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer
ISBN: 9783111451619
Format: Hardback
$406.53

This volume examines the previously overlooked connections between historical manifestations of magic and their...  Read More >>

Jocelyn Bioh: Three Plays: Merry Wives; Nollywood Dreams; School Girls, Or, The African Mean Girls Play

Jocelyn Bioh: Three Plays: Merry Wives; Nollywood Dreams;...

Author: Jocelyn Bioh
ISBN: 9781350423343
Format: Paperback
$39.99

""Three plays by celebrated American playwright Jocelyn Bioh, including international hits and a bold adaptation...  Read More >>

Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama

Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama

Author: Michael M. Wagoner (United States Naval Academy, USA) ,  Professor Douglas Bruster (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
ISBN: 9781350238343
Format: Paperback
$59.99

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost’s appearance in Hamlet to Celia’s frightful...  Read More >>

Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre

Utopian Drama: In Search of a Genre

Author: Dr Siân Adiseshiah (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350349315
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Shortlisted for The TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize 2023 As the first full-length study to analyse utopian plays...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Shakespeare Against War: Pacifist Readings

Author: Robert White
ISBN: 9781399516211
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Throughout his career Shakespeare, although steeped in expert knowledge of military matters, weighted his plays...  Read More >>

Principles of Political Economy (Volume 2) (Edition1)

Principles of Political Economy (Volume 2) (Edition1)...

Author: Ellis Wynne ,  Robert Gwyneddon Davies
ISBN: 9789362999245
Format: Book
$42.42

The Visions of the Sleeping Bard from Ellis Wynne. Welsh clergyman (1671-1734).  Read More >>

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

The Family of Love: By Lording Barry

Author: Sophie Tomlinson
ISBN: 9781526178879
Format: Paperback
$45.99

The Family of Love is a rumbustious citizen comedy. Delivering farcical twists on familiar dramatic situations,...  Read More >>

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare: Scenes of Thanking in Shakespeare’s Plays

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare: Scenes of Thanking...

Author: Chahra Beloufa
ISBN: 9781032727141
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

Author: Douglas Bruster (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
ISBN: 9781032312545
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts...  Read More >>

Devised Theater’s Collaborative Performance: Making Masterpieces from Collective Concepts

Devised Theater’s Collaborative Performance: Making...

Author: Telory D Arendell
ISBN: 9780367644383
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides a fascinating and concise history of devised theatre practice. Replete with interviews from the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden

Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under...

Author: Philip Goldfarb Styrt
ISBN: 9781032363288
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare’s...  Read More >>

Harold Pinter's Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Influence on the Work of Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter's Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Influence...

Author: Charles Morton
ISBN: 9781032182643
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book charts the impact of Shakespeare’s works on Harold Pinter’s career as a playwright.This study will be...  Read More >>

Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare and Early English Drama

Medieval Afterlives: Transforming Traditions in Shakespeare...

Author: Daisy Black (Lecturer in English) ,  Katharine Goodland (Professor)
ISBN: 9781526172136
Format: Hardback
$206.99

An essay collection showing how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time...  Read More >>

The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623–2023: Copy, Print, Paper, Type

The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623–2023: Copy, Print,...

Author: Samuel V. Lemley (Carnegie Mellon University)
ISBN: 9780271097329
Format: Hardback
$141.00

""A collection of essays by leading scholars of Shakespeare in print, offering an overview of current research on...  Read More >>

Lie Low

Lie Low

Author: Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
ISBN: 9781350517271
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Shakespeare: Jeebani O Kruti

Shakespeare: Jeebani O Kruti

Author: Pradeep Kumar Rath
ISBN: 9781645605423
Format: Paperback
$42.24

ସଦ୍ୟତମ ଗ୍ରନ୍ଥ 'ସେକ୍]ସପିଅର ଜୀବନୀ ଓ କୃତି' ବିଶ୍ୱବିଶ୍ରୁତ ନାଟ୍ୟକାର ସେକ୍]ସପିଅରଙ୍କ ବ୍ୟକ୍ତି ପ୍ରତିକୂଳତା ଭିତରେ ତାଙ୍କ ସ୍ରଷ୍ଟା...  Read More >>

Twenty-First Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and Contexts in Contemporary British Theatre

Twenty-First Century Anxieties: Dys/Utopian Spaces and...

Author: Merle Tönnies ,  Eckart Voigts
ISBN: 9783111529936
Format: Paperback
$58.05

The volume uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine how 21st-century British theatre increasingly intercuts...  Read More >>

The Harmony Test

The Harmony Test

Author: Richard Molloy (Author)
ISBN: 9781350504387
Format: Paperback
$21.99

He says, if we really wanna conceive now, he’s got a little something he can sell me under the counter at a very...  Read More >>

Dear Billy: A Love Letter to the Big Yin

Dear Billy: A Love Letter to the Big Yin

Author: Gary McNair (Author)
ISBN: 9781350515901
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Cold Water

Cold Water

Author: Philippa Lawford
ISBN: 9781350515765
Format: Paperback
$21.99

When I’m walking with her the whole time I’m imagining I’m with someone else. Who do you imagine? You, sometimes....  Read More >>

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Denis Daly
ISBN: 9798874823788
Format: Audio
$79.07

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and...  Read More >>

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Denis Daly
ISBN: 9798874823771
Format: Audio
$79.07

An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and...  Read More >>

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London

Author: Willow White
ISBN: 9781644533406
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Feminist Comedy argues that the development of modern feminist thought is closely linked to theatrical comedy. Through...  Read More >>

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Alan Weyman
ISBN: 9798874812782
Format: Audio
$97.68

The work of the world's greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars. This is the revised edition.  Read More >>

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