Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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August Strindberg

August Strindberg

Author: Eszter Szalczer (NY State, Albany, USA)
ISBN: 9780415414227
Format: Hardback
$305.00

August Strindberg was a radical innovator of Western theatre whose diverse dramatic output embodied an essentially...  Read More >>

King Lear in our Time

King Lear in our Time

Author: Maynard Mack
ISBN: 9780415612258
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Shakespeare's Secret Booke: Deciphering Magical and Rosicrucian Codes

Shakespeare's Secret Booke: Deciphering Magical and...

Author: David Ovason
ISBN: 9781905570263
Format: Paperback
$45.99

Whilst Shakespeare's genius is universally recognized, there is a hidden, secretive side to his work that is little...  Read More >>

Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance

Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance...

Author: Nick Salvato
ISBN: 9780300155396
Format: Paperback
$66.95

In this elegant book, modernism is illuminated through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein,...  Read More >>

Readings on the Character of Hamlet: compiled from over three hundred sources.

Readings on the Character of Hamlet: compiled from over...

Author: Claude C H Williamson
ISBN: 9780415612296
Format: Paperback
$118.00

This volume contains the essence of over three hundred well-known literary critics who, between 1661 and 1947, considered...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Law

Shakespeare and Law

Author: Dr Andrew Zurcher ,  Dr Andrew Zurcher
ISBN: 9781904271727
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Andrew Zurcher takes a fresh, historically sensitive look at Shakespeare's meticulous resort to legal language,...  Read More >>

Mother Bombie: John Lyly

Mother Bombie: John Lyly

Author: Leah Scragg ,  Leah Scragg
ISBN: 9780719080364
Format: Hardback
$197.87

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Shakespeare: A Hidden Life Sung in a Hidden Song

Shakespeare: A Hidden Life Sung in a Hidden Song

Author: Ian Steere
ISBN: 9781848765115
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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That Shakespeherian Rag: Essays on a critical process

That Shakespeherian Rag: Essays on a critical process...

Author: Terence Hawkes (Emeritus Professor of English, Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415489430
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which our society 'processes' Shakespeare and the purposes for...  Read More >>

The Marriage of Hamlet: A Play in Three Acts

The Marriage of Hamlet: A Play in Three Acts

Author: Jean Sarment ,  Frank J Morlock
ISBN: 9781434411938
Format: Paperback
$39.57

In this fantasy play, the prophet Abraham prevails upon God Almighty to restore Hamlet and his friends to life,...  Read More >>

Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare

Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and Shakespeare

Author: Peter Mack (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781849660617
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Shakespeare and Montaigne are the English and French writers of the sixteenth century who have the most to say to...  Read More >>

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
ISBN: 9781414449357
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 >>

Shakespeare On Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles

Shakespeare On Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen...

Author: Julian Curry
ISBN: 9781848420779
Format: Paperback
$31.99

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Gwen in Purgatory

Gwen in Purgatory

Author: Tommy Murphy
ISBN: 9780868198941
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Wolbring - Zeder

Wolbring - Zeder

Author: Wilhelm Kosch ,  Ingrid Bigler-Marschall
ISBN: 9783110231717
Format: Paperback
$290.27

Das Deutsche Theater-Lexikon enthalt genau recherchierte Artikel uber Schauspieler, Sanger, Regisseure, Theaterleiter,...  Read More >>

Adapting King Lear for the Stage

Adapting King Lear for the Stage

Author: Lynne Bradley
ISBN: 9781409405979
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Questioning whether the impulse to adapt Shakespeare has changed over time, this title argues for restoring a sense...  Read More >>

August Strindberg

August Strindberg

Author: Eszter Szalczer (NY State, Albany, USA)
ISBN: 9780415414234
Format: Paperback
$79.99

August Strindberg was a radical innovator of Western theatre whose diverse dramatic output embodied an essentially...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law

Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan...

Author: Paul Raffield (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781841139210
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Through an examination of six plays, this book presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the...  Read More >>

Rabelais's Radical Farce: Late Medieval Comic Theater and Its Function in Rabelais

Rabelais's Radical Farce: Late Medieval Comic Theater...

Author: E. Bruce Hayes
ISBN: 9780754665182
Format: Hardback
$315.00

By tracing the development of farce in late medieval and Renaissance comedic theater in comparison to the evolution...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Moral Agency

Shakespeare and Moral Agency

Author: Michael D Bristol
ISBN: 9781441183736
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

Shakespeare and Moral Agency presents a collection of new essays by literary scholars and philosophers considering...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre: 1772 to the Present

Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre: 1772 to the Present...

Author: Keith Gregor
ISBN: 9781441143983
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

A monograph on Shakespeare's reception in Spain. It offers an overview of Shakespeare's place in Spain's complex...  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: 9780415610780
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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

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