Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Understanding Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Understanding Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream...
Author: Robert a Albano ISBN: 9781461189305 Format: Paperback	$39.60
Shakespeare's delightful fantasy-comedy explained in clear and simple prose. Read More >>

Cruelty and Desire in the Modern Theater: Antonin Artaud, Sarah Kane, and Samuel Beckett

Cruelty and Desire in the Modern Theater: Antonin Artaud,...
Author: Laurens De Vos ISBN: 9781611470444 Format: Hardback	$198.00
Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both... Read More >>

The English Drama and Stage Under the Tudor and Stuart Princes, 1543-1664, Illustrated by a Series of Documents, Treatises, and Poems. with a Preface and Index

The English Drama and Stage Under the Tudor and Stuart...
Author: William Carew Hazlitt ISBN: 9781172844746 Format: Paperback	$81.18
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing... Read More >>

A Life of William Shakespeare

A Life of William Shakespeare
Author: Sir Sidney Lee, Sir ISBN: 9781172924356 Format: Paperback	$149.82
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books... Read More >>

Calderon: Life's A Dream

Calderon: Life's A Dream
Author: Michael Kidd ISBN: 9780856688959 Format: Paperback	$95.04
""What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction; and the greatest good is fleeting, for... Read More >>

Part of a Long Story: ""Eugene O'Neill as a Young Man in Love""

Part of a Long Story: ""Eugene O'Neill as a Young Man...
Author: Agnes Boulton , William Davies King ISBN: 9780786460700 Format: Paperback	$71.50
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Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives

Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern...
Author: Ken Jackson , Arthur F. Marotti ISBN: 9780268032708 Format: Paperback	$74.80
Shakespeare and Religion examines the topic of religion in Shakespearean drama from two points of view: the historical,... Read More >>

Calderon: Life's A Dream

Calderon: Life's A Dream
Author: Michael Kidd ISBN: 9780856688966 Format: Hardback	$184.80
""What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction; and the greatest good is fleeting, for... Read More >>

The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare...
Author: Lorna Hutson (Berry Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews) ISBN: 9780199691487 Format: Paperback	$97.95
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RSC Shakespeare: The Life, the Works, the Treasures

RSC Shakespeare: The Life, the Works, the Treasures...
Author: Catherine M. S. Alexander , RSC Enterprise Limited ISBN: 9780233003214 Format: Hardback	$92.27
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Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection

Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975: Milestone Plays of Crime,...
Author: Amnon Kabatchnik ISBN: 9780810877832 Format: Hardback	$330.00
Discussing more than 120 full-length plays, this volume provides an overview of the most important and memorable... Read More >>

The Advent of Pluralism: Diversity and Conflict in the Age of Sophocles

The Advent of Pluralism: Diversity and Conflict in the...
Author: Lauren J. Apfel ISBN: 9780199600625 Format: Hardback	$296.00
In this study of the relationship between a modern philosophical idea and an ancient historical moment, Lauren Apfel... Read More >>

The Beauties of Shakspear

The Beauties of Shakspear
Author: William Dodd ISBN: 9781608881222 Format: Hardback	$71.25
"William Dodd (29 May 1729 - 27 June 1777) was an English Anglican clergyman and a man of letters. He lived extravagantly,... Read More >>

A Study of Shakespeare's Versification: With an Inquiry into the Trustworthiness of the Early Texts an Examination of the 1616 Folio of Ben Jonson's Works and Appendices including a Revised Test of 'Antony and Cleopatra'

A Study of Shakespeare's Versification: With an Inquiry...
Author: Matthew Albert Bayfield ISBN: 9780511693458 Format: Undefined	$224.40
Matthew Bayfield (1852–1922), classical scholar and educator, argues passionately against the contractions used... Read More >>

Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories

Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories
Author: Romila Thapar ISBN: 9780231156554 Format: Paperback	$56.95
Originally published: New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1999. Read More >>

The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama, 1620–1650

The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama, 1620–1650...
Author: Julie Sanders (University of Nottingham) ISBN: 9780511762260 Format: Undefined	$435.60
Literary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. This innovative study applies theories... Read More >>

Goethe's Faust: Theatre of Modernity

Goethe's Faust: Theatre of Modernity
Author: Hans Schulte , John Noyes (University of Toronto) ISBN: 9780511974939 Format: Undefined	$435.60
Goethe's Faust is one of the pivotal works of world literature, with its protagonist universally recognized as a... Read More >>

Irony and the Modern Theatre

Irony and the Modern Theatre
Author: William Storm (New Mexico State University) ISBN: 9780511974830 Format: Undefined	$435.60
William Storm explores the significance of irony in the modern theatre, investigating major works by playwrights... Read More >>

Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa

Filming Shakespeare's Plays: The Adaptations of Laurence...
Author: Anthony Davies (University of Fort Hare, South Africa) ISBN: 9780511553097 Format: Undefined	$462.00
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The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis

The Theatre of Sam Shepard: States of Crisis
Author: Stephen J. Bottoms (University of Glasgow) ISBN: 9780511586255 Format: Undefined	$462.00
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I Used to Know That: Shakespeare: Stuff You Forgot from School

I Used to Know That: Shakespeare: Stuff You Forgot from...
Author: Liz Evers ISBN: 9781606522462 Format: Hardback	$39.47
Capturing the unbelievable scope of Shakespeare's influence, this book covers the little-known details of Shakespeare's... Read More >>

Irony and the Modern Theatre

Irony and the Modern Theatre
Author: William Storm ISBN: 9786613112859 Format: Electronic book text	$475.20
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Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture

Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture...
Author: A. Petrina , L. Tosi ISBN: 9780230278172 Format: Hardback	$224.40
The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her life and after her death, through... Read More >>

Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories

Sakuntala: Texts, Readings, Histories
Author: Romila Thapar ISBN: 9780231156547 Format: Hardback	$182.95
Originally published: New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1999. Read More >>

Dramaturgie de Hambourg

Dramaturgie de Hambourg
Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Jean-Marie Valentin ISBN: 9782251830025 Format: Paperback	$105.60
"Longtemps confine aux scenes des colleges lutheriens et jesuites, soumis aux aleas qui affectent le sort des troupes... Read More >>

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