Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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How Shakespeare Changed Everything

How Shakespeare Changed Everything

Author: Stephen Marche
ISBN: 9780061965548
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Uncovers the hidden influence of Shakespeare in our culture, including these tidbits: Shakespeare coined over 1,700...  Read More >>

Musset: Un Trio de Proverbes

Musset: Un Trio de Proverbes

Author: Frank Lestringant ,  Bertrand Marchal
ISBN: 9782812407765
Format: Paperback
$89.76

Three proverbs from Musset and as many variations on love's dialectic between confession and jest, truth and lies....  Read More >>

Theatre and War: Theatrical Responses since 1991

Theatre and War: Theatrical Responses since 1991

Author: J. Colleran
ISBN: 9781137006295
Format: Hardback
$145.17

How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected...  Read More >>

Falstaff: Four Plays: Henry IV 1 and 2, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V

Falstaff: Four Plays: Henry IV 1 and 2, The Merry Wives...

Author: Sasha Newborn ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780942208740
Format: Paperback
$39.47

A reader's edition, modernized language (""you"" for ""thee,"" etc.) and glossary for unfamiliar words. Plus chart...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Among the Courtesans

Shakespeare Among the Courtesans

Author: Duncan Salkeld
ISBN: 9786613885081
Format: Electronic book text
$316.64

Courtesans-women who achieve wealth, status, or power through sexual transgression-have played both a central and...  Read More >>

Reading Shakespeare Film First

Reading Shakespeare Film First

Author: Mary Ellen Dakin ,  Alan B. Teasley
ISBN: 9780814139073
Format: Paperback
$53.90

The heart of this book is a triangle whose three points are literary, theatrical, and cinematic. The chapters guide...  Read More >>

Tirso de Molina: Marta the Divine

Tirso de Molina: Marta the Divine

Author: Harley Erdman
ISBN: 9781908343000
Format: Hardback
$422.40

Tirso de Molina's Marta the Divine (c. 1614-15) is a spirited comedy about an ingenious young woman who fakes...  Read More >>

Beltaine (Routledge Revivals): The Organ of the Irish Literary Theatre

Beltaine (Routledge Revivals): The Organ of the Irish...

Author: W Yeats
ISBN: 9780415626316
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1970, this book is a faithful representation of the original edition of Beltaine, a literary...  Read More >>

Samhain (Routledge Revivals): October 1901 - November 1908

Samhain (Routledge Revivals): October 1901 - November...

Author: W Yeats
ISBN: 9780415626354
Format: Hardback
$315.00

First published in 1970, this book includes all of the annual editions and also a final pamphlet of Samhain: October...  Read More >>

Women and Revenge in Shakespeare: Gender, Genre, and Ethics

Women and Revenge in Shakespeare: Gender, Genre, and...

Author: Marguerite A. Tassi
ISBN: 9781575911311
Format: Hardback
$183.48

Can there be a virtue in vengeance? Can revenge do ethical work? Can revenge be the obligation of women? This wide-ranging...  Read More >>

The Tempest and New World-Utopian Politics

The Tempest and New World-Utopian Politics

Author: F. Brevik
ISBN: 9781137021793
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This study on New World-utopian politics in The Tempest traces paradigm shifts in literary criticism over the past...  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: Michelle Lee
ISBN: 9781414471471
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

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La dramaturgia de Romulo Gallegos

La dramaturgia de Romulo Gallegos

Author: Rafael Godoy Ramirez
ISBN: 9781479252657
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Este libro se centra en el estudio de cuatro obras teatrales de...  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: Michelle Lee
ISBN: 9781414471488
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

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Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric

Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric

Author: David Sansone (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA)
ISBN: 9781118357088
Format: Hardback
$207.95

This book challenges the standard view that formal rhetoric arose in response to the political and social environment...  Read More >>

City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire

City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire...

Author: Angeliki Tzanetou
ISBN: 9780292754324
Format: Paperback
$41.95

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Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England

Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England...

Author: Martin Wiggins (Senior Lecturer and Fellow, The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon)
ISBN: 9780199650590
Format: Hardback
$324.00

The state is at its most volatile when supreme power changes hands. This book studies five such moments of transfer...  Read More >>

King Henry VIII In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version

King Henry VIII In Plain and Simple English: A Modern...

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781479229307
Format: Paperback
$39.57

Shakespeare knew like few others how to dramatize the gossipy lives of kings. More importantly, he knew that just...  Read More >>

Rushing Into Floods: Staging the Sea in Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century English Drama

Rushing Into Floods: Staging the Sea in Restoration...

Author: Gunda Windmuller
ISBN: 9783899719680
Format: Hardback
$229.68

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Shakespeare and the Denial of Death

Shakespeare and the Denial of Death

Author: James L. Calderwood
ISBN: 9780870235832
Format: Paperback
$65.87

James L. Calderwood offers a lively exploration of the ways in which Shakespeare dramatizes the strategies people...  Read More >>

Timon of Athens

Timon of Athens

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Charles P. Jones
ISBN: 9781936205202
Format: Hardback
$1306.80

Adapted stories with contemporary illustrations to introduce classical literature to a wider audience.  Read More >>

Posthumanist Shakespeares

Posthumanist Shakespeares

Author: S. Herbrechter ,  I. Callus
ISBN: 9780230360907
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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