Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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When a Young Man Falls in Love

When a Young Man Falls in Love

Author: Vincent J Rosivach
ISBN: 9781280330544
Format: Electronic book text
$343.20

When A Young Man Falls in Love examines the plays of New Comedy to reveal how the sexual relationships between the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory

Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory

Author: Neema Parvini (University of Surrey)
ISBN: 9781283853668
Format: Electronic book text
$279.84

In the thirty years since thepublication of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning overthrew traditional...  Read More >>

Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature

Theologies of Language in English Renaissance Literature...

Author: James S Baumlin
ISBN: 9781282134003
Format: Electronic book text
$105.57

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Straight

Straight

Author: D C Moore
ISBN: 9781283874298
Format: Electronic book text
$142.56

Based on the motion picture Humpday (written & directed in 2009 by Lynn Shelton), Straight is a razor-sharp...  Read More >>

Maria Irene Fornes

Maria Irene Fornes

Author: Scott T Cummings (Boston College, Massachussets, USA)
ISBN: 9781283709866
Format: Electronic book text
$364.32

<p>Maria Irene Fornes is the most influential female American dramatist of the 20th century. That is the argument...  Read More >>

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama

Women Warriors in Romantic Drama

Author: Wendy C Nielsen
ISBN: 9781283943383
Format: Electronic book text
$211.17

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On Beckett: Essays and Criticism

On Beckett: Essays and Criticism

Author: S E Gontarski (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781283976268
Format: Electronic book text
$261.36

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Shakespeare: Poems

Shakespeare: Poems

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781299058620
Format: Electronic book text
$118.40

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which...  Read More >>

Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights

Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights

Author: Stella Adler ,  Barry Paris
ISBN: 9781299254879
Format: Electronic book text
$134.24

In her long-awaited book, the legendary acting teacher Stella Adler gives us her extraordinary insights into the...  Read More >>

Pulse

Pulse

Author: Professor John Lutz
ISBN: 9781306667777
Format: Electronic book text
$23.73

JOHN LUTZ IS . . . AMONG THE BEST. San Diego Union A MAJOR TALENT. John Lescroart ONE OF THE MASTERS. Ridley...  Read More >>

Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound

Author: Lecturer in Classics Ian Ruffell (University of Glasgow)
ISBN: 9781306723756
Format: Electronic book text
$203.28

Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by...  Read More >>

No Laughing Matter

No Laughing Matter

Author: C W Marshall ,  George Kovacs, M.D. (Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario)
ISBN: 9781306723848
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

No Laughing Matter is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of the comic theatre of Athens, from its origins...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction: Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots

Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction: Theorizing Foundling...

Author: Barbara L. Estrin
ISBN: 9781611493696
Format: Hardback
$211.20

As the first book to use fiction as theory, Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction reads backward to demonstrate how...  Read More >>

The Shakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue

The Shakespeare First Folios: A Descriptive Catalogue...

Author: Eric Rasmussen ,  A. West
ISBN: 9780230517653
Format: Hardback
$1361.03

This catalogue of the Shakespeare First Folio (1623) is the result of two decades of research during which 232 surviving...  Read More >>

Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy: Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency

Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy: Women's Desire,...

Author: Peggy Thompson
ISBN: 9781611483727
Format: Hardback
$120.95

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Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Author: Ann Thompson (King's College London, UK) ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781408152010
Format: Paperback
$79.20

A revised edition of the best-selling Arden Shakespeare Complete Works which includes the full text of Double Falsehood,...  Read More >>

Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Author: Garry Wills
ISBN: 9780300152180
Format: Hardback
$66.00

A many-faceted examination of how Shakespeare brought Rome alive for his readers through a masterful manipulation...  Read More >>

The Comedy of Errors: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare

The Comedy of Errors: A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare...

Author: Stannish Henning
ISBN: 9780873522960
Format: Hardback
$646.00

New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction,...  Read More >>

Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings

Retheorizing Shakespeare through Presentist Readings...

Author: James O'Rourke (Florida State University, US)
ISBN: 9780415897037
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book offers a theoretical rationale for the emerging presentist movement in Shakespeare studies and goes on...  Read More >>

Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare

Intimacy and Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare

Author: James M. Bromley (Miami University)
ISBN: 9781139057752
Format: Undefined
$435.60

An important contribution to queer theory and the history of sexuality, this book investigates how Renaissance texts...  Read More >>

Science, Politics, and Friendship in the Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Science, Politics, and Friendship in the Works of Thomas...

Author: Ute Berns
ISBN: 9781611493672
Format: Hardback
$154.95

This study offers an incisive new reading of the romantic playwright Thomas Lovell (1803-1849) Beddoes's work as...  Read More >>

Deep Comedy: Trinity, Tragedy, & Hope in Western Literature

Deep Comedy: Trinity, Tragedy, & Hope in Western Literature...

Author: Peter J Leithart
ISBN: 9781591280279
Format: Paperback
$39.60

In this short but stimulating work, Peter Leithart draws upon insights from history, theology, philosophy, and literature...  Read More >>

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