Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Performing Femininity: Dance and Literature in German Modernism

Performing Femininity: Dance and Literature in German...

Author: Alexandra Kolb ,  Christian Emden
ISBN: 9783039113514
Format: Paperback
$133.00

This is the first book to analyse the cultural representations of female identity that were created by the interaction...  Read More >>

Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults

Reading Shakespeare with Young Adults

Author: Mary Ellen Dakin
ISBN: 9780814139042
Format: Paperback
$58.30

Although the works of William Shakespeare are universally taught in high schools, many students have a similar reaction...  Read More >>

New Heaven, New Earth: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

New Heaven, New Earth: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra...

Author: Jan H. Blits
ISBN: 9780739138236
Format: Hardback
$139.95

New Heaven, New Earth is a philosophical study ofAntony and Cleopatra. Showing that the play is as much a history...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Shorthand: The Textual Mystery of  King Lear

Shakespeare in Shorthand: The Textual Mystery of King...

Author: Adele Davidson
ISBN: 9780874130478
Format: Hardback
$135.84

The play King Lear has been a consummate bibliographical mystery. This book demonstrates that many textual anomalies...  Read More >>

Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere: Representations of Liminal Locality in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere:...

Author: Monica Matei-Chesnoiu
ISBN: 9780838641958
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Explores how Eastern European spaces and meanings are constituted in specific cultural contexts in early modern...  Read More >>

The Elizabethan Stage: Volume 4

The Elizabethan Stage: Volume 4

Author: E. K. Chambers ,  E. K. Chambers
ISBN: 9780199567515
Format: Hardback
$468.95

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Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 (Dodo Press)

Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 (Dodo...

Author: Arthur Acheson
ISBN: 9781409934240
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Arthur Acheson (1864-1930) was a noted British Shakespeare scholar and author. His works include: Shakespeare and...  Read More >>

The House, the City, and the Judge: The Growth of Moral Awareness in the Oresteia

The House, the City, and the Judge: The Growth of Moral...

Author: Richard Kuhns
ISBN: 9781104847661
Format: Hardback
$100.19

Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of...  Read More >>

The Origin of German Tragic Drama

The Origin of German Tragic Drama

Author: Walter Benjamin ,  George Steiner
ISBN: 9781844673483
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Offers a source of literary modernism in the twentieth century.  Read More >>

A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued Jamestown and Inspired Shakespeare's  The Tempest

A Brave Vessel: The True Tale of the Castaways Who Rescued...

Author: Hobson Woodward
ISBN: 9780670020966
Format: Hardback
$68.51

A riveting historical narrative (Nathaniel Philbrick), A Brave Vessel tells the story of William Strachey, an...  Read More >>

The Comedy Of Errors

The Comedy Of Errors

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781438520629
Format: Paperback
$21.01

This new edition of Shakespeare's anarchic comedy, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with acclaimed...  Read More >>

A Life of William Shakespeare

A Life of William Shakespeare

Author: Sidney Lee
ISBN: 9781443288651
Format: Paperback
$109.01

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Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet: Reading Strategies from Criticism, Editing and the Theatre

Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet:...

Author: Lynette Hunter ,  Peter Lichtenfels
ISBN: 9780754658443
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Through fresh and unconventional approaches, including critical/historical, printing/publishing and performance...  Read More >>

The Spectacular In and Around Shakespeare

The Spectacular In and Around Shakespeare

Author: Pascale Drouet
ISBN: 9781443811057
Format: Hardback
$139.89

This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in and around Shakespeare's plays, both in early modern England...  Read More >>

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William...

Author: Sir Jonathan Bate
ISBN: 9780141015866
Format: Paperback
$32.99

How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did Bottom's dream rewrite the Bible?...  Read More >>

Fictional Thinking: A Poetics & Rhetoric of Fictional Creativity in Theatre

Fictional Thinking: A Poetics & Rhetoric of Fictional...

Author: Eli Rozik
ISBN: 9781845193270
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Offers a theory of the archaic mode of fictional thinking and a methodology for the analysis of fictional worlds....  Read More >>

Fictional Thinking: A Poetics & Rhetoric of Fictional Creativity in Theatre

Fictional Thinking: A Poetics & Rhetoric of Fictional...

Author: Eli Rozik
ISBN: 9781845193263
Format: Hardback
$197.87

Offers a theory of the archaic mode of fictional thinking and a methodology for the analysis of fictional worlds....  Read More >>

Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country

Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country

Author: Steve Roth
ISBN: 9780970470201
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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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: 9781414441955
Format: Hardback
$823.68

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Coda

Coda

Author: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847081001
Format: Paperback
$42.11

The final work from the brilliant and bestselling playwright and memoirist of The Smoking Diaries.  Read More >>

Stewart Parker: Dramatis Personae & Other Writings

Stewart Parker: Dramatis Personae & Other Writings

Author: Gerald Dawe ,  Maria Johnston
ISBN: 9788073082413
Format: Paperback
$36.96

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Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater

Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift,...

Author: Paula Marie Seniors
ISBN: 9780814211007
Format: Hardback
$145.07

Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing explores African American life and history as refracted through the musical theater...  Read More >>

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