Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Drama for Students, Volume 28: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Dramas

Drama for Students, Volume 28: Presenting Analysis,...

Author: Sara Constantakis ,  Carole L Hamilton
ISBN: 9780787681241
Format: Hardback
$327.36

Each volume of Drama for Students contains easily accessible and content-rich discussions of the literary and historical...  Read More >>

After Midnight: A Youngbloods Novel

After Midnight: A Youngbloods Novel

Author: Lynn Viehl
ISBN: 9780738726328
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

Author: Sarah Beckwith
ISBN: 9780801449789
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Tracing the changing speech patterns of confession and absolution in Shakespeare's work.  Read More >>

The Argumentative Theatre of Joe Penhall

The Argumentative Theatre of Joe Penhall

Author: William C. Boles
ISBN: 9780786459490
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Discussing the argumentative nature of British playwright Joe Penhall's plays, this book places them within the...  Read More >>

Why Athens?: A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics

Why Athens?: A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics

Author: D. M. Carter (Lecturer in Greek, University of Reading)
ISBN: 9780199562329
Format: Hardback
$287.00

A collection of essays reconsidering Greek tragedy as a reflection of Athenian political culture. The contributors...  Read More >>

Simon Gray Unbound: The Journey of a Dramatist

Simon Gray Unbound: The Journey of a Dramatist

Author: Peter Wolfe
ISBN: 9780786462995
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Examines Simon Gray's legacy from the early plays, which hack away at the formalism and humanism of traditional...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett in the Literary Marketplace

Samuel Beckett in the Literary Marketplace

Author: Stephen John Dilks
ISBN: 9780815632542
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Focusing on the period between 1929 and 1969, and taking into account published and unpublished letters, advertising...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception

Shakespeare's Book: Essays in Reading, Writing and Reception...

Author: Richard Meek ,  Jane Rickard
ISBN: 9780719085611
Format: Paperback
$36.99

This collection of essays offers a vital contribution to this critical debate, and examines its wider implications...  Read More >>

Oscar Wilde's Plagiarism: The Triumph of Art Over Ego

Oscar Wilde's Plagiarism: The Triumph of Art Over Ego...

Author: Florina Tufescu
ISBN: 9780716529057
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Missing Persons: Essays on Character and Characterization in Modern Drama

Missing Persons: Essays on Character and Characterization...

Author: William E. Gruber
ISBN: 9780820338521
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A study of character and its representations on the modern stage. Within broad literary contexts, William E. Gruber...  Read More >>

The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Romances

The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare's Romances

Author: Barbara A. Mowat
ISBN: 9780820338569
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest—three of Shakespeare’s final plays diverge from his usual standards....  Read More >>

The Arden Shakespeare Miscellany

The Arden Shakespeare Miscellany

Author: Jane Armstrong
ISBN: 9781408129104
Format: Paperback
$36.99

An ideal reference companion for students and enthusiasts of Shakespeare, this informative and entertaining Miscellany...  Read More >>

Perspective in Shakespeare's English Histories

Perspective in Shakespeare's English Histories

Author: Larry S. Champion
ISBN: 9780820338460
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare’s English history plays and describes the structural devices through which...  Read More >>

The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England: By George Peele

The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England: By George...

Author: Charles R. Forker ,  Charles R. Forker
ISBN: 9780719078989
Format: Hardback
$224.27

A much needed, fully annotated and modernized text of a long neglected play used by Shakespeare as the principal...  Read More >>

Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, and Pinter

Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd: Camus, Beckett,...

Author: M. Bennett
ISBN: 9781349295203
Format: Paperback
$113.82

Fifty years after the publication of Martin Esslin's The Theatre of the Absurd , which suggests that 'absurd' plays...  Read More >>

The King and I

The King and I

Author: Dr Philippa Kelly
ISBN: 9781441111647
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Outlaws, irreverent humorists, political underdogs, authoritarians... these are the images of Australians as revealed...  Read More >>

The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia

The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia

Author: Aeschylus ,  Peter Burian (Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures and Theater Studies, Professor of Classical and Comparative Literatures and Theater Studies, Duke University)
ISBN: 9780199753635
Format: Paperback
$22.95

Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro's masterful translation of The Oresteia, originally published in 2003, is being repackaged...  Read More >>

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