Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare ... Touching Deer-Stealing ...; To Which Is Added, a Conference of Master Edmund Spenser ... with the Earl of Essex, Touching the State of Ireland, A.D. 1595

Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare ......

Author: Walter Savage Landor
ISBN: 9781175498472
Format: Paperback
$78.54

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

Macbeth

Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare ,  James Marsters
ISBN: 9781580818384
Format: Audio
$68.51

This annotated edition offers a reconsideration of Shakespeare's tragedy.  Read More >>

The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama: 'Whining' Prologues and 'Armed' Epilogues

The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama: 'Whining'...

Author: Brian W. Schneider ,  Dr. Helen Ostovich
ISBN: 9781409410171
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published...  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Barbara a Mowat
ISBN: 9781451621709
Format: Paperback
$26.27

This Folger edition includes newly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, full explanatory...  Read More >>

F. R. Leavis: The Gnome of Cambridge

F. R. Leavis: The Gnome of Cambridge

Author: Roy Holland
ISBN: 9781908026217
Format: Paperback
$20.67

This is the text of the original handwritten notes taken down by the late Professor Roy Holland in the course of...  Read More >>

The Woman in the Moon: By John Lyly

The Woman in the Moon: By John Lyly

Author: Leah Scragg ,  David Bevington
ISBN: 9780719072451
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Hamlet

Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781613820919
Format: Paperback
$26.37

The first edition of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy to be developed by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company,...  Read More >>

The Elizabethan Dumb Show (Routledge Revivals): The History of a Dramatic Convention

The Elizabethan Dumb Show (Routledge Revivals): The...

Author: Dieter Mehl
ISBN: 9780415610872
Format: Paperback
$96.99

First published in English in 1965, this book discusses the roots and development of the dumb show as a device in...  Read More >>

Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama: Essays in Honour of Jill Levenson

Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama: Essays in Honour...

Author: Randall Martin ,  Katherine Scheil
ISBN: 9781442641747
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama is the first book-length international study to examine the critical and theatrical...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time

Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time

Author: Matthew Wagner
ISBN: 9786613462640
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among...  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

Author: John Russell Brown ,  Kevin Ewert (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
ISBN: 9780415483018
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare is a window onto how today's actors contribute to the continuing...  Read More >>

Goddesses, Mages, And Wise Women: The Female Pastoral Guide in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century English Drama

Goddesses, Mages, And Wise Women: The Female Pastoral...

Author: Sharon Rose Yang
ISBN: 9781575911564
Format: Hardback
$157.08

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Sophocles' 'Philoctetes' and the Great Soul Robbery

Sophocles' 'Philoctetes' and the Great Soul Robbery...

Author: Norman Austin
ISBN: 9780299282745
Format: Paperback
$53.90

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The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare

Author: John Russell Brown ,  Kevin Ewert (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
ISBN: 9780415483025
Format: Hardback
$483.00

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare is a window onto how today's actors contribute to the continuing...  Read More >>

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen

Author: Chelsea House Publishers
ISBN: 9781604135770
Format: Hardback
$90.20

Features a complex critical portrait of one of the most influential writers in the world, bibliographic information...  Read More >>

Antony and Cleopatra: William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra: William Shakespeare

Author: Harold Bloom ,  Professor Harold Bloom
ISBN: 9781604133592
Format: Hardback
$90.20

Shakespeare's multifaceted Antony and Cleopatra has been seen on one hand as a romance about the transcendence of...  Read More >>

The Tempest: William Shakespeare

The Tempest: William Shakespeare

Author: Harold Bloom ,  Professor Harold Bloom
ISBN: 9781604133530
Format: Hardback
$90.20

For many, The Tempest constitutes Shakespeare's farewell to the stage. It seems to foreshadow a powerful movement...  Read More >>

Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790

Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium, 1770–1790...

Author: Daniel O'Quinn (Associate Professor, University of Guelph)
ISBN: 9780801899317
Format: Hardback
$169.00

Together, O'Quinn's two books offer a dramatic account of the global shifts in British imperial culture that will...  Read More >>

Eugene O'Neill and His Early Contemporaries: Bohemians, Radicals, Progressives and the Avant Garde

Eugene O'Neill and His Early Contemporaries: Bohemians,...

Author: Eileen J. Herrmann ,  Robert M. Dowling
ISBN: 9780786445578
Format: Paperback
$71.50

Eugene O'Neill was one of the great American playwrights of the twentieth century. Spanning the years 1910-1930,...  Read More >>

Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

Author: Peter Hyland ,  Dr. Helen Ostovich
ISBN: 9780754641520
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important...  Read More >>

Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the...

Author: Alan Ackerman
ISBN: 9780300167122
Format: Hardback
$92.40

"In an appearance on ""The Dick Cavett Show"" in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Speculative Art

Shakespeare's Speculative Art

Author: Maurice A Hunt
ISBN: 9786613360342
Format: Electronic book text
$269.28

<p>This is thefirst book-length study of Shakespeare's pastoral comedyto explainhow the play represents issues and...  Read More >>

Four Puppet Plays

Four Puppet Plays

Author: Federico Garcia Lorca ,  Edwin Honig
ISBN: 9780935296945
Format: Paperback
$31.55

Collected for the first time in a single volume, Federico Garcia Lorca's Four Puppet Plays, A Play Without a Title,...  Read More >>

Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet

Forms of Attention: Botticelli and Hamlet

Author: Sir Frank Kermode
ISBN: 9786613250322
Format: Electronic book text
$237.60

<p>Sir Frank Kermode, the British scholar, instructor, and author, was an inspired critic. Forms of Attention is...  Read More >>

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