Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

Anton Chekhov offers a critical introduction to the plays and productions of this major playwright. Rose Whyman...  Read More >>

Exploring the interactions between Shakespeare and popular music, this book links these seeming polar opposites,...  Read More >>

Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression...  Read More >>

Stone effects a return to gender in Shakespeare studies through a feminist psychoanalytic look at those of the Bard's...  Read More >>

Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or both? Addressing from various angles the relation of the figure of the...  Read More >>

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For study or revision, these guides are the perfect accompaniment to the set text, providing invaluable background...  Read More >>

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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: Longman Subjects: Drama...  Read More >>

Expores southern drama from its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots through the southern Literary Renaissance...  Read More >>

Subtitle: Clerk, Before the Worshipful Sir Thomas Lucy, Knight, Touching Deer-Stealing on the 19th Day of September...  Read More >>

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The dramatic works covered range from medieval materializations of Hell to the Golden Age plays of Lope de vega,...  Read More >>

Title: Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby and Silas Gough ... Before ......  Read More >>

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume...  Read More >>

Through close analysis of key Shakespearean texts and discussion of Renaissance revisions of Ovid, classical attitudes...  Read More >>

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: The Macmillan company Subjects:...  Read More >>

Hamlet kills Polonius thinking he is Claudius. Yet he cannot kill Claudius. Why?  Read More >>

A series of essays by the English author Symonds who was in the forefront of the bourgeois radical men and women...  Read More >>

Subtitle: Before the Worshipful Sir Thomas Lucy, Knight, Touching Deer-Stealing on the Nineteenth Day of September...  Read More >>

An introduction to the work of Aristophanes, one of the world's greatest comic writers. It tackles key questions...  Read More >>

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1868. A collection of lectures delivered before Lowell College in Boston. Contents: The Growing...  Read More >>

Short excerpt: About one hour before noontide the youth WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE accused of deer-stealing and apprehended...  Read More >>

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