Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23711 books were found.

Das Traditionelle Chinesische Theater: Vom Mongolendrama Bis Zur Pekinger Oper

Das Traditionelle Chinesische Theater: Vom Mongolendrama...

Author: Wolfgang Kubin
ISBN: 9783598245435
Format: Hardback
$480.48

As early as the Mongol Age at a time when dramatic art had not yet been rediscovered in Europe Chinese theatre blossemed....  Read More >>

Shakespeare Thinking

Shakespeare Thinking

Author: Professor Philip Davis ,  Simon Palfrey
ISBN: 9780826486950
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Politische Dramaturgien im geteilten Berlin: Soziale Imaginationen bei Erwin Piscator und Heiner Müller um 1960

Politische Dramaturgien im geteilten Berlin: Soziale...

Author: Heiner Teroerde
ISBN: 9783899716962
Format: Hardback
$182.16

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Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition

Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition...

Author: A. J. Boyle
ISBN: 9780415555043
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Tragic Seneca undertakes a radical re-evaluation of Seneca's plays, their relationship to Roman imperial culture...  Read More >>

Inter-Actions: Relationships of Religion and Drama

Inter-Actions: Relationships of Religion and Drama

Author: Nelvin Vos
ISBN: 9780761844693
Format: Paperback
$57.95

The conversation between religion and culture, drama and Christianity, needs to be ongoing. This book is a contribution...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Thinking

Shakespeare Thinking

Author: Professor Philip Davis ,  Simon Palfrey
ISBN: 9780826486943
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly...  Read More >>

The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus,...

Author: Sophocles ,  Ruth Fainlight
ISBN: 9780801891342
Format: Paperback
$58.99

This elegant and uncommonly readable translation will make these seminal Greek tragedies accessible to a new generation...  Read More >>

Selected Plays of George Shiels: George Shiels

Selected Plays of George Shiels: George Shiels

Author: George Shiels ,  Christopher Murray
ISBN: 9780861401529
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Irish Drama Selections. Contains The Retriever , Professor Tim , The New Gossoon , The Passing Day , The Rugged...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance...

Author: Martha W. Driver ,  Sid Ray
ISBN: 9780786434053
Format: Paperback
$65.95

Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases...  Read More >>

The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus,...

Author: Sophocles ,  Ruth Fainlight
ISBN: 9780801891335
Format: Hardback
$115.00

This elegant and uncommonly readable translation will make these seminal Greek tragedies accessible to a new generation...  Read More >>

Reading Performance: Spanish Golden-Age Theatre and Shakespeare on the Modern Stage

Reading Performance: Spanish Golden-Age Theatre and...

Author: Susan L Fischer (Contributor)
ISBN: 9781855661813
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Spanish Golden-Age plays take their place at the forefront of world theatre.  Read More >>

Macbeth (Teacher's Book)

Macbeth (Teacher's Book)

Author: Hilary Burningham
ISBN: 9780237540463
Format: Paperback
$87.09

This Teacher's Book is designed to accompany the student's book, in which the main characters and key events are...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Greatest Hits

Shakespeare's Greatest Hits

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Full Cast
ISBN: 9781615455805
Format: Mixed media product
$105.57

Shakespeare's Greatest Hits contains some of the most memorable scenes from 13 of the Bard's greatest plays,including...  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: 9781414433264
Format: Hardback
$823.68

The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: < ul>< i>< li> Antony and Cleopatra< li> A Midsummer Night's...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Attacks Bigotry: A Close Reading of Six Plays

Shakespeare Attacks Bigotry: A Close Reading of Six...

Author: Elaine L. Robinson
ISBN: 9780786440399
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Argues that Renaissance humanism created a system of bigotry and eroded the practice of Christianity, and that Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

Dear Mr. Shakespeare: Letters to a Jobbing Playwright

Dear Mr. Shakespeare: Letters to a Jobbing Playwright...

Author: Simon Reade (Author)
ISBN: 9781840028294
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A sharp and novel companion to Shakespeare. For aficionados, actors, academics, and audiences alike.  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Confines of Art

Shakespeare and the Confines of Art

Author: Philip Edwards
ISBN: 9780415489126
Format: Paperback
$96.99

By selective study of certain of the comedies, tragedies and sonnets, Philip Edwards views Shakespeare's work as...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Author: Curtis Perry (Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign) ,  John Watkins (Professor of English and Medieval Studies at the University of Minnesota)
ISBN: 9780199558179
Format: Hardback
$268.00

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink...  Read More >>

The Unmentionables: A Play

The Unmentionables: A Play

Author: Bruce Norris
ISBN: 9780810125841
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Set in western equitorial Africa on the estate of a wealthy American businessman, The Unmentionables opens with...  Read More >>

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