Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781475162738
Format: Paperback
$21.12

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

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Uncensored

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Uncensored

Author: Joseph Lanzara ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780963962126
Format: Paperback
$50.03

"Shakespeare's original full-length play...line-by-line, side-by-side, complete, uncut, and UNCENSORED! Teenage...  Read More >>

Forgiving the Gift: The Philosophy of Generosity in Shakespeare and Marlowe

Forgiving the Gift: The Philosophy of Generosity in...

Author: Sean Lawrence ,  Jeffrey S. Theis
ISBN: 9780820704487
Format: Hardback
$152.00

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The Truth About William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction and Modern Biographies

The Truth About William Shakespeare: Fact, Fiction and...

Author: David Ellis (Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury)
ISBN: 9780748646661
Format: Hardback
$194.06

A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information  Read More >>

Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy

Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy

Author: Simon Goldhill (Professor of Greek Literature and Culture and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics, King's College, Cambridge University)
ISBN: 9780199796274
Format: Hardback
$63.95

Written by one of the best-known interpreters of classical literature today, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy...  Read More >>

Four Essays on the Shakespeare Authorship Question

Four Essays on the Shakespeare Authorship Question

Author: Mike A'Dair
ISBN: 9780615527932
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Now in its third edition, Four Essays on the Shakespeare Authorship Question is an introduction to the authorship...  Read More >>

English Tragedy before Shakespeare: The Development of Dramatic Speech

English Tragedy before Shakespeare: The Development...

Author: Wolfgang Clemen
ISBN: 9780415618595
Format: Paperback
$101.00

First published in English 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic...  Read More >>

Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening

Author: Charlotte Ryland ,  Frank Wedekind
ISBN: 9781408140895
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A Student Edition of Wedekind's classic 1891 expressionist play about adolescent sexuality.  Read More >>

Farewell to the Theatre

Farewell to the Theatre

Author: Richard Nelson
ISBN: 9780571280735
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare

The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare

Author: Gail Kern Paster
ISBN: 9780820338576
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Gail Kern Paster explores the role of the city in the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and Ben Jonson....  Read More >>

The Facts on File Companion to Shakespeare (5-Volume Set)

The Facts on File Companion to Shakespeare (5-Volume...

Author: William Baker ,  Kenneth Womack
ISBN: 9780816078202
Format: Hardback
$743.60

The primary goal of this new five-volume set is to make Shakespeare's poems and plays accessible and appealing to...  Read More >>

Readings in Performance and Ecology

Readings in Performance and Ecology

Author: Wendy Arons ,  Theresa J J May
ISBN: 9786613657503
Format: Electronic book text
$285.12

This ground-breaking collection focuses on how theatre, dance, and other forms of performance are helping to transform...  Read More >>

Shaw, Plato, and Euripides: Classical Currents in Major Barbara

Shaw, Plato, and Euripides: Classical Currents in Major...

Author: Sidney P. Albert ,  Richard F Dietrich
ISBN: 9780813037646
Format: Hardback
$197.87

""An examination of how Bernard Shaw's drama Major Barbara parallels Plato's The Republic and Euripides's Bacchae...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation: Speeches and Scenes Performed as Shakespeare Would Have Heard Them

Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation: Speeches and Scenes...

Author: Ben Crystal ,  et al.
ISBN: 9780712351195
Format: Audio
$25.88

How did Shakespeare sound to the audiences of his day? For the first time this disc offers listeners the chance...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative: “What’s aught but as ‘tis valued?”

Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative: “What’s aught...

Author: Peter F. Grav (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415542173
Format: Paperback
$118.00

Working from the perspective of the new economic criticism, this study uses close reading and historical contextualization...  Read More >>

Tyrant Oidipous: A New Translation of Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus

Tyrant Oidipous: A New Translation of Sophocles's Oedipus...

Author: Rachel Pollack ,  David Vine
ISBN: 9788792633156
Format: Paperback
$42.24

"Sophocles's 'Oedipus Tyrannus' (also known by its Latin title 'Oedipus Rex') is one of the world's fundamental...  Read More >>

King John and Henry VIII

King John and Henry VIII

Author: Prof. Eric Rasmussen (University of Nevada, Reno, USA) ,  Jonathan Bate (University of Oxford, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780230361928
Format: Paperback
$26.99

From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's most unusual and provocative...  Read More >>

The Afterlife of Ophelia

The Afterlife of Ophelia

Author: Kaara L Peterson ,  Deanne Williams (York University, Toronto)
ISBN: 9786613614469
Format: Electronic book text
$269.28

Presents Ophelia in a broader and more comprehensive range of contexts than previous scholarship and forges connections...  Read More >>

Shakespeare

Shakespeare

Author: Charles W Crupi
ISBN: 9780816081301
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Great Shakespeareans

Great Shakespeareans

Author: Peter Holland ,  Adrian Poole
ISBN: 9781441160119
Format: Hardback
$1478.40

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Shakespeare's Ocean

Shakespeare's Ocean

Author: Dan Brayton
ISBN: 9786613585080
Format: Electronic book text
$126.72

<p>Study of the sea--both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation--has been largely...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

Author: Emma Smith (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780511667442
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Perfect for students and theatregoers, this lively and authoritative guide contains key information on Shakespeare....  Read More >>

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