Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Understanding Samuel Beckett

Understanding Samuel Beckett

Author: Alan Astro
ISBN: 9781611170047
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Cosmos and Tragedy: An Essay on the Meaning of Aeschylus

Cosmos and Tragedy: An Essay on the Meaning of Aeschylus...

Author: Brooks Otis ,  E.Christian Kopff
ISBN: 9780807897447
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Otis clarifies the moral and theological issues raised in the Ortesia and relates them to certain stylistic and...  Read More >>

Understanding Tennessee Williams

Understanding Tennessee Williams

Author: Alice Griffin
ISBN: 9781611170061
Format: Paperback
$39.60

Provides an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric...  Read More >>

Ecocritical Shakespeare

Ecocritical Shakespeare

Author: Lynne Bruckner ,  Dan Brayton
ISBN: 9780754669197
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Hamlet

Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Full Cast
ISBN: 9781441793010
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$131.97

Blackstone Audio is proud to present the Oregon Shakespeare Festivals brilliant production of Shakespeares disturbing...  Read More >>

The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays

The Complete Euripides: Volume V: Medea and Other Plays...

Author: Euripides ,  Peter Burian (Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures and Theater Studies, Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures and Theater Studies, Duke University)
ISBN: 9780195388718
Format: Paperback
$26.95

This volume collects for the first time four plays of Euripides in the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations...  Read More >>

Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage

Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage

Author: MS Erin B Mee ,  Helene P Foley
ISBN: 9786613352415
Format: Electronic book text
$1211.76

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Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611: Metaphor and National Identity

Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611:...

Author: Jane Pettegree
ISBN: 9780230293335
Format: Hardback
$224.40

This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays – Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra...  Read More >>

Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression

Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of...

Author: Petra Dierkes-Thrun
ISBN: 9780472117673
Format: Hardback
$171.60

A study of Oscar Wilde's Salomé in modernist and postmodernist literature and culture  Read More >>

1 Henry IV: A Critical Guide

1 Henry IV: A Critical Guide

Author: Stephen Longstaffe
ISBN: 9786613245861
Format: Electronic book text
$348.48

I Henry IV has always been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays and this critical guide offers a comprehensive...  Read More >>

The Luminous Darkness: On Jon Fosse's Theatre

The Luminous Darkness: On Jon Fosse's Theatre

Author: Leif Zern ,  Ann Henning-Jocelyn (Author)
ISBN: 9781849430586
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A biography and study of the work of Jon Fosse, judged by many to be Norway's greatest contemporary writer. Translated...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar: A Verse Translation

Julius Caesar: A Verse Translation

Author: Kent Richmond ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780983637905
Format: Paperback
$26.27

Julius Caesar is set at a crucial turning point in Roman history, as the Republican gives way to the imperial. Safely...  Read More >>

The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare

The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare

Author: Irving Ribner
ISBN: 9781258046903
Format: Hardback
$137.15

Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents...  Read More >>

The York Mystery Plays: Performance in the City

The York Mystery Plays: Performance in the City

Author: Margaret Rogerson ,  Alan Heaven
ISBN: 9781903153352
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Essays on the York Mystery Plays, uniting voices from the scholarly world with the York community that has assumed...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on Love: The Sonnets and Plays in Relation to Plato’s Symposium, Alchemy, Christianity and Renaissance Neo-Platonism

Shakespeare on Love: The Sonnets and Plays in Relation...

Author: Ronald Gray
ISBN: 9781443827119
Format: Hardback
$139.89

Dr Ronald Gray, Fellow of Emmanuel College, lectured at Cambridge University on German Literature and Philosophy...  Read More >>

The Body as Text in Shakespeare's Plays: The Fashioning of the Sexes

The Body as Text in Shakespeare's Plays: The Fashioning...

Author: Xenia Georgopoulou
ISBN: 9780773416024
Format: Hardback
$316.67

In the patriarchal society of Renaissance England women played an important role in male self-definition. Since...  Read More >>

The Winter's Tale: Evans Shakespeare Edition

The Winter's Tale: Evans Shakespeare Edition

Author: Lawrence Rhu (University of South Carolina)
ISBN: 9780495911227
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Helps students contextualize Renaissance drama, while providing explanatory notes to the play.  Read More >>

As you Like it: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition

As you Like it: A Frankly Annotated First Folio Edition...

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Jr., Charles Whalen
ISBN: 9780786449651
Format: Paperback
$27.50

This annotated version of As you Like It provides a detailed guide to its Elizabethan language and its references....  Read More >>

Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith

Dear Dodie: The Life of Dodie Smith

Author: Valerie Grove
ISBN: 9781845951733
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Frank and funny, unorthodox, liberated and quintessentially English, Dodie Smith, playwright and novelist, was the...  Read More >>

King Lear: Evans Shakespeare Edition

King Lear: Evans Shakespeare Edition

Author: Vincent Petronella (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
ISBN: 9780495911234
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Helps students contextualize Renaissance drama, while providing explanatory notes to the play.  Read More >>

The Inspector General

The Inspector General

Author: Michael M. Chemers
ISBN: 9780887485398
Format: Paperback
$47.39

A new adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's comedy, The Inspector General, by Michael M. Chemers for performers.  Read More >>

Shakespeare Studies Today: Romanticism Lost

Shakespeare Studies Today: Romanticism Lost

Author: Edward Pechter (Victoria University)
ISBN: 9786613158864
Format: Electronic book text
$269.28

Surveying the complex field of Shakespeare studies today, this book argues that a return to original practices wouldrevive...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Son: A Journey in Writing and Grieving

Shakespeare and Son: A Journey in Writing and Grieving...

Author: Keverne Smith
ISBN: 9780313392306
Format: Hardback
$80.00

A revealing examination of an under-explored area of Shakespeare studies, this work looks at the evidence for the...  Read More >>

Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities: Performing Contradictions

Field Day and the Translation of Irish Identities: Performing...

Author: A. O'Malley
ISBN: 9780230229693
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This book examines Field Day's cultural intervention into the Northern Irish 'Troubles' through individual readings...  Read More >>

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