Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Looking Through Gender: Post-1980 British and Irish Drama

Looking Through Gender: Post-1980 British and Irish...

Author: Samuele Grassi
ISBN: 9781443828734
Format: Hardback
$179.39

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Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays

Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays

Author: Naseeb Shaheen
ISBN: 9781611493580
Format: Hardback
$210.95

This reissue of Shaheen's invaluable volume provides a comprehensive survey of the English Bibles of Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Challenges to the Power of Zeus in Early Greek Poetry

Challenges to the Power of Zeus in Early Greek Poetry...

Author: Professor Noriko Yasumura
ISBN: 9780715636787
Format: Hardback
$320.00

In the earliest extant works of Greek literature, Zeus reigns supreme in the Olympian hierarchy. However, scattered...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Southern Writers: A Study in Influence

Shakespeare and Southern Writers: A Study in Influence...

Author: Philip C Kolin
ISBN: 9781617032066
Format: Paperback
$62.70

A collection of essays that documents the indebtedness and thematic similarities uniting Shakespeare and eight southern...  Read More >>

A Study of Shakespeare

A Study of Shakespeare

Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
ISBN: 9781178753967
Format: Paperback
$86.46

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia...  Read More >>

Zeami: Performance Notes

Zeami: Performance Notes

Author: Motoyiko Zeami ,  Tom Hare
ISBN: 9780231139595
Format: Paperback
$59.95

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Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition

Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition

Author: Raphael Lyne (Dr, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780511997051
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Shakespeare's language can be analysed with technical vocabulary, but it can also seem spontaneous, strange and...  Read More >>

The Past in Aeschylus and Sophocles

The Past in Aeschylus and Sophocles

Author: Poulheria Kyriakou
ISBN: 9783110257526
Format: Hardback
$308.79

Studies the past of the characters in ""Aeschylus and Sophocles"", a neglected but crucial topic. This study reveals...  Read More >>

Persians, Seven against Thebes, and Suppliants

Persians, Seven against Thebes, and Suppliants

Author: Aeschylus ,  Aaron Poochigian (Brooklyn College)
ISBN: 9781421400631
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Intended to be both read as literature and performed as plays, these translations are lucid and readable, while...  Read More >>

Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus

Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts...

Author: Brian Gibbons ,  Christopher Marlowe
ISBN: 9781408149492
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A collection of the four major plays by Christopher Marlowe: Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Comic Changes: The Time-Lapse Metaphor As Plot Device

Shakespeare's Comic Changes: The Time-Lapse Metaphor...

Author: Roger L. Cox
ISBN: 9780820338477
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Cox argues that the thread connecting almost all of Shakespeare’s comedies is a plot in which character change is...  Read More >>

Doing Shakespeare

Doing Shakespeare

Author: Simon Palfrey (Brasenose College, University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781408132142
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A thoroughly revised edition of the successful student text Doing Shakespeare, first published in 2005. The revised...  Read More >>

Studying Shakespeare in Performance

Studying Shakespeare in Performance

Author: John Russell-Brown
ISBN: 9780230273740
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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The Resurrection: Manuscript Materials

The Resurrection: Manuscript Materials

Author: W. B. Yeats ,  Jared Curtis
ISBN: 9780801450136
Format: Hardback
$356.40

A documentary edition of Yeats's 1932 play that traces multiple textual revisions.  Read More >>

Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781175880734
Format: Paperback
$75.90

Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and...  Read More >>

Studying Shakespeare in Performance

Studying Shakespeare in Performance

Author: John Russell-Brown
ISBN: 9780230273733
Format: Hardback
$240.00

John Russell Brown is arguably the most influential scholar in the field of Shakespeare in performance. Drawing...  Read More >>

The Death of Christopher Marlowe

The Death of Christopher Marlowe

Author: J Leslie Hotson
ISBN: 9781175804365
Format: Paperback
$49.50

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing...  Read More >>

A History of Modern Drama: Volume I

A History of Modern Drama: Volume I

Author: David Krasner
ISBN: 9786613268358
Format: Electronic book text
$791.74

Covering the period 1879 to 1959, and taking in everything from Ibsen to Beckett, this book is volume one of a two-part...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Speculative Art

Shakespeare’s Speculative Art

Author: M. Hunt
ISBN: 9780230116610
Format: Hardback
$224.40

This is the first book-length analysis of Shakespeare s depiction of specula (mirrors) to reveal the literal and...  Read More >>

Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans

Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans

Author: R. Schanke
ISBN: 9780230115750
Format: Hardback
$224.40

A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theater whose work was fueled...  Read More >>

Rehabilitating Literary Theory: A Practical Guide for the Critical and Semiotic Analysis of Poetry and Drama

Rehabilitating Literary Theory: A Practical Guide for...

Author: Khaled Besbes
ISBN: 9781612335070
Format: Paperback
$76.43

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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 ,  Corporate Contributor
ISBN: 9781414471402
Format: Hardback
$865.92

The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: < ul>< i>< li> Antony and Cleopatra< li> A Midsummer Night's...  Read More >>

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