Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23715 books were found.

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds

Author: Carole Levin ,  John Watkins
ISBN: 9781322505299
Format: Electronic book text
$171.60

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Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage

Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma,...

Author: Patricia A. Cahill (Assistant Professor, Emory University)
ISBN: 9780199212057
Format: Hardback
$224.00

This original and historically rigorous study of war in Elizabethan drama and culture examines the era's emergent...  Read More >>

Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The Children's Playing Companies (1599-1613)

Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre: The...

Author: Edel Lamb
ISBN: 9780230202610
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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National Myth and Imperial Fantasy: Representations of British Identity on the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage

National Myth and Imperial Fantasy: Representations...

Author: Louise H. Marshall
ISBN: 9780230573376
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Euripides: Orestes

Euripides: Orestes

Author: Matthew Wright
ISBN: 9780715637142
Format: Paperback
$68.64

""Orestes"" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of...  Read More >>

A Vehicle for Performance: Acting the Messenger in Greek Tragedy

A Vehicle for Performance: Acting the Messenger in Greek...

Author: Margaret Dickin
ISBN: 9780761843559
Format: Paperback
$71.95

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Shakespeare's England

Shakespeare's England

Author: William Winter
ISBN: 9780559771583
Format: Paperback
$73.26

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

The Bibliography of Australian Literature

The Bibliography of Australian Literature

Author: John Arnold ,  John Hay
ISBN: 9780702236891
Format: Hardback
$324.72

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Shakespeare's England

Shakespeare's England

Author: William Winter
ISBN: 9780559771613
Format: Hardback
$81.81

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

Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity

Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of...

Author: A. Guneratne
ISBN: 9781403967886
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of...  Read More >>

The Necessary Shakespeare

The Necessary Shakespeare

Author: David Bevington
ISBN: 9780205652167
Format: Paperback
$208.56

Extracted from the best-selling Complete Works of Shakespeare, 4/e by David Bevington, The Necessary Shakespeare...  Read More >>

The Shakespeare Handbook

The Shakespeare Handbook

Author: Michael Schmidt ,  Robert Maslen
ISBN: 9781847246158
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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Early Soyinka

Early Soyinka

Author: Bernth Lindfors
ISBN: 9781592216536
Format: Paperback
$69.84

This is a collection of essays which explore the talents of a young Wole Soyinka. Lindfors' essays interrogate the...  Read More >>

Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949

Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949

Author: P. Murphy
ISBN: 9780230536838
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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Where Shakespeare Set His Stage (1906)

Where Shakespeare Set His Stage (1906)

Author: Elise Lathrop ,  C W Hood
ISBN: 9781437364477
Format: Paperback
$76.43

An essential study which focuses on 12 of the plays, including Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth,...  Read More >>

The Pulitzer Prize Plays: The First 50 Years, 1917-1967 : a Dramatic Reflection of American Life

The Pulitzer Prize Plays: The First 50 Years, 1917-1967...

Author: Paul A. Firestone
ISBN: 9780879103552
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Analyses the plays that won the Pulitzer Prize during the first 50 years of its existence (1917-1967). This book...  Read More >>

The Smoking Diaries Volume 3: The Last Cigarette

The Smoking Diaries Volume 3: The Last Cigarette

Author: Simon Gray
ISBN: 9781847080721
Format: Paperback
$24.99

In this volume, Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Can he kick the habit of sixty years?  Read More >>

Poetics

Poetics

Author: Aristotle ,  S H Butcher
ISBN: 9781605203553
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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Every Pilgrim's Guide to Oberammergau and Its Passion Play

Every Pilgrim's Guide to Oberammergau and Its Passion...

Author: Michael Counsell
ISBN: 9781853118913
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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Where Shakespeare Set His Stage (1906)

Where Shakespeare Set His Stage (1906)

Author: Elise Lathrop ,  C W Hood
ISBN: 9781437436334
Format: Hardback
$116.03

An essential study which focuses on 12 of the plays, including Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth,...  Read More >>

The Drama of Sensibility: A Sketch of the History of English Sentimental Comedy and Domestic Tragedy, 1696-1780 (1915)

The Drama of Sensibility: A Sketch of the History of...

Author: Ernest Bernbaum
ISBN: 9781437395983
Format: Hardback
$116.03

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Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 2

Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume...

Author: Lisa Zunshine
ISBN: 9781138750012
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume 4

Acting Theory and the English Stage, 1700-1830 Volume...

Author: Lisa Zunshine
ISBN: 9781138750036
Format: Hardback
$315.00

During the eighteenth century, treatises on the science of elocution, gesture and naturalness abounded  Read More >>

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