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A Life of William Shakespeare

A Life of William Shakespeare
Author: Sir Sidney Lee , Tom Thomas ISBN: 9781453839478 Format: Paperback	$34.19
A biography first published in 1898, and regarded for many years as the most reliable account of Shakespeare's life.... Read More >>

The Existential Dramaturgy of William Shakespeare: Character Created Through Crisis

The Existential Dramaturgy of William Shakespeare: Character...
Author: Asloob Ahmad Ansari ISBN: 9780773436039 Format: Hardback	$290.27
An interpretation of Shakespeare through the spiritual crisis of his chief characters. Read More >>

The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism to Contemporary Performance

The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism...
Author: Maggie B. Gale (University of Manchester, UK) , John F. Deeney ISBN: 9780415466622 Format: Paperback	$131.87
A compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre. It comprises full reproductions of the plays... Read More >>

Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture in the Seventeenth Century

Reading Masques: The English Masque and Public Culture...
Author: Lauren Shohet (Associate Professor of English, Villanova University) ISBN: 9780199295890 Format: Hardback	$244.95
Reading Masques interweaves analysis of text, music, and spectacle with research into the printing, marketing, and... Read More >>

Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early Modern Stage

Islamic Conversion and Christian Resistance on the Early...
Author: Jane Hwang Degenhardt (Associate Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) ISBN: 9780748640843 Format: Hardback	$219.00
This book explores the threat of Christian conversion to Islam in twelve early modern English plays. In works by... Read More >>

The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism to Contemporary Performance

The Routledge Drama Anthology and Sourcebook: From Modernism...
Author: Maggie B. Gale (University of Manchester, UK) , John F. Deeney ISBN: 9780415466066 Format: Hardback	$356.40
A compilation of the key movements in the history of modern theatre. It comprises full reproductions of the plays... Read More >>

Metaphoric Resonance in Shakespearean Tragedy

Metaphoric Resonance in Shakespearean Tragedy
Author: Myron Stagman ISBN: 9781443824231 Format: Paperback	$110.75
An occasional prefigurement and echo was hardly unknown before Shakespeare. But the vast echoism—continuing forward... Read More >>

The Tragedie of Macbeth

The Tragedie of Macbeth
Author: William Shakespeare ISBN: 9781453826683 Format: Paperback	$17.13
THE TRAGEDIE OF MACBETH: Folio Text Read More >>

The Alchemist

The Alchemist
Author: Elizabeth Cook , Ben Jonson ISBN: 9781408110201 Format: Paperback	$19.99
The play script of Jonson's satirical farce, including an extensive introduction, with biographical notes and information... Read More >>

The Alchemist

The Alchemist
Author: Elizabeth Cook , Ben Jonson ISBN: 9781408132586 Format: Hardback	$105.00
The play script of Jonson's satirical farce, including an extensive introduction, with biographical notes and information... Read More >>

Staging Age: The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance, and Film

Staging Age: The Performance of Age in Theatre, Dance,...
Author: Valerie Lipscomb , L. Marshall ISBN: 9780230623651 Format: Hardback	$211.20
This text explores how performers offer conscious-and unconscious-portrayals of the spectrum of age to their audiences.... Read More >>

Das Weimarer Hoftheater unter Goethes Leitung: Kunstanspruch und Kulturpolitik im Konflikt

Das Weimarer Hoftheater unter Goethes Leitung: Kunstanspruch...
Author: Birgit Himmelseher ISBN: 9783110231496 Format: Hardback	$205.83
Goethe leitete die Weimarer Hofbühne von 1791 bis 1817. In diesen Jahren war er nicht nur Theaterleiter, sondern... Read More >>

Die Tragödie der Moderne

Die Tragödie der Moderne
Author: Daniel Fulda , Thorsten Valk ISBN: 9783110232905 Format: Hardback	$369.60
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Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure
Author: William Shakespeare , Jonathan Bate ISBN: 9780812969283 Format: Paperback	$15.71
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Richard II

Richard II
Author: William Shakespeare , Jonathan Bate ISBN: 9780812969306 Format: Paperback	$15.71
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Read More >>

Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition

Jonson, Horace and the Classical Tradition
Author: Victoria Moul (Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature, University of Cambridge) ISBN: 9780511711978 Format: Undefined	$435.60
Victoria Moul investigates Ben Jonson's important relationship with his most significant literary model, Horace.... Read More >>

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida
Author: William Shakespeare , Jonathan Bate ISBN: 9780812969313 Format: Paperback	$15.71
A new edition of Shakespeare's version of Troilus and Cressida. Kenneth Muir, in his introduction, sets the play... Read More >>

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare , Jonathan Bate ISBN: 9780812969290 Format: Paperback	$15.71
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Everything Shakespeare Book: Celebrate the Life, Times and Works of the World's Greatest Storyteller

Everything Shakespeare Book: Celebrate the Life, Times...
Author: Cork Milner ISBN: 9786613484796 Format: Electronic book text	$47.36
Without question, William Shakespeare is the most celebrated and quoted writer of all time. Whether you're a long-time... Read More >>

Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov
Author: Rose Whyman (University of Birmingham, UK) ISBN: 9780415411448 Format: Paperback	$81.99
Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this major playwright. Rose Whyman... Read More >>

Menander: The Shield and The Arbitration

Menander: The Shield and The Arbitration
Author: Stanley Ireland (Emeritus Reader, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick) ISBN: 9780856688331 Format: Paperback	$95.04
'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'?Thus the judgement of Aristophanes... Read More >>

The Pronomos Vase and its Context

The Pronomos Vase and its Context
Author: Oliver Taplin (Emeritus Professor of Classics, Magdalen College, Oxford) , Rosie Wyles (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Nottingham) ISBN: 9780199582594 Format: Hardback	$418.00
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Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov
Author: Rose Whyman (University of Birmingham, UK) ISBN: 9780415411431 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this major playwright. Rose Whyman... Read More >>

Menander: The Shield and The Arbitration

Menander: The Shield and The Arbitration
Author: Stanley Ireland (Emeritus Reader, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick) ISBN: 9780856688973 Format: Hardback	$211.20
'What reason has an educated man for going to the theatre, except to see Menander'?Thus the judgement of Aristophanes... Read More >>

Aeschylean Tragedy

Aeschylean Tragedy
Author: Alan H. Sommerstein (University of Nottingham, UK) ISBN: 9780715638248 Format: Paperback	$86.99
Covers all aspects of Aeschylean drama in one volume, making this the ideal first book on the subject for any student... Read More >>

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