Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23711 books were found.

Modernism and the Ordinary

Modernism and the Ordinary

Author: Liesl Olson (Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Assistant Professor, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Assistant Professor, University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9780195368123
Format: Hardback
$170.95

Modernism and the Ordinary overturns conventional accounts of the modernist period as primarily drawn toward the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Comedies

Shakespeare's Comedies

Author: Kiernan Ryan
ISBN: 9780333599327
Format: Paperback
$81.84

In this groundbreaking book one of the most original and compelling voices in contemporary Shakespeare criticism...  Read More >>

John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama

John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama

Author: Rupert Brooke
ISBN: 9781110134656
Format: Paperback
$83.82

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

As You Like it

As You Like it

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781110202546
Format: Paperback
$75.90

Updated edition of the popular play As You Like It, containing new material on recent criticism and performances....  Read More >>

As You Like it: A Comedy in Five Acts

As You Like it: A Comedy in Five Acts

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781110204250
Format: Paperback
$44.22

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each...  Read More >>

The American Dream in African American, Asian American, and Hispanic American Drama: August Wilson, Frank Chin, and Luis Valdez

The American Dream in African American, Asian American,...

Author: Tsui-Fen Jiang
ISBN: 9780773446564
Format: Hardback
$263.87

"In August Wilson's ""The Piano Lesson"", Frank Chin's ""The Chickencoop Chinaman"", and Luis Valdez's ""Zoot Suit"",...  Read More >>

A Study of Shakespeare

A Study of Shakespeare

Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
ISBN: 9781110169863
Format: Paperback
$78.54

Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When...  Read More >>

Characters of Shakespear's Plays

Characters of Shakespear's Plays

Author: William Hazlitt
ISBN: 9781110201945
Format: Paperback
$86.46

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each...  Read More >>

Plays by Women About Women Play Writers: How Women Create Myths About Themselves

Plays by Women About Women Play Writers: How Women Create...

Author: Purnur Ucar-Ozbirinci
ISBN: 9780773447080
Format: Hardback
$290.27

A mythmaker possesses the power to use the 'word', thereby possesses the power to control 'reality'. By writing...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Author: David Carnegie
ISBN: 9781403948908
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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As You Like it

As You Like it

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781110202584
Format: Hardback
$87.09

Updated edition of the popular play As You Like It, containing new material on recent criticism and performances....  Read More >>

John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama

John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama

Author: Rupert Brooke
ISBN: 9781110134700
Format: Hardback
$87.09

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

Characters of Shakespear's Plays

Characters of Shakespear's Plays

Author: William Hazlitt
ISBN: 9781110201983
Format: Hardback
$95.01

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each...  Read More >>

Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death: An Expository Study of His Plays and Production Work, 1988-2008

Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death: An Expository Study...

Author: D. Rabey
ISBN: 9781403994738
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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Under the Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes

Under the Sign of the Shield: Semiotics and Aeschylus'...

Author: Froma I. Zeitlin
ISBN: 9780739125892
Format: Hardback
$89.95

A study of the last drama of Aeschylus' trilogy concerned with the fortunes of the house of Laius that ends with...  Read More >>

Sex on Stage: Gender and Sexuality in Post-War British Theatre

Sex on Stage: Gender and Sexuality in Post-War British...

Author: Andrew Wyllie
ISBN: 9781841502038
Format: Paperback
$46.95

Examines how British playwrights, actors, and directors brought women's sexuality and gay and lesbian issues to...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational Identities in the Elizabethan Age

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds: National and Transnational...

Author: Carole Levin ,  John Watkins
ISBN: 9780801447419
Format: Hardback
$151.80

In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based...  Read More >>

Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film

Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film

Author: J. Cooke
ISBN: 9780230219342
Format: Hardback
$237.60

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THE Great Shakespeare Hoax: After Unmasking the Fraudulent Pretender, Search for the True Genius Begins

THE Great Shakespeare Hoax: After Unmasking the Fraudulent...

Author: Paul Hemenway Altrocchi ,  Hank Whittemore
ISBN: 9781440123818
Format: Paperback
$73.79

How could William Shaksper of Stratford, who was illiterate, be the author of plays that have dazzled the world...  Read More >>

THE Great Shakespeare Hoax: After Unmasking the Fraudulent Pretender, Search for the True Genius Begins

THE Great Shakespeare Hoax: After Unmasking the Fraudulent...

Author: Paul Hemenway Altrocchi ,  Hank Whittemore
ISBN: 9781440123832
Format: Hardback
$100.19

How could William Shaksper of Stratford, who was illiterate, be the author of plays that have dazzled the world...  Read More >>

A Study of Shakespeare

A Study of Shakespeare

Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
ISBN: 9781110169900
Format: Hardback
$87.09

Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When...  Read More >>

Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare (Dodo Press)

Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare...

Author: Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Gra ,  Ernest Crosby
ISBN: 9781409965268
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer...  Read More >>

John Henry: Roark Bradford's Novel and Play

John Henry: Roark Bradford's Novel and Play

Author: Steven C Tracy
ISBN: 9780195371048
Format: Hardback
$70.95

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Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present

Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present

Author: A. Forsyth ,  C. Megson
ISBN: 9780230336896
Format: Paperback
$272.98

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