Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Tempest

The Tempest

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781605978284
Format: Paperback
$20.99

Combining reality and magic, Shakespeare creates an uncanny but morally coherent world through the The Tempest's...  Read More >>

Poetics

Poetics

Author: Aristotle
ISBN: 9781605978260
Format: Paperback
$18.35

A founding text of European aestheticism and literary criticism, Poetics underpins our moden understanding of imaginative...  Read More >>

Medieval and Antique Tradition in the Twelth Night and The Tempest

Medieval and Antique Tradition in the Twelth Night and...

Author: Erika Nagyné Fisi
ISBN: 9783639044706
Format: Paperback
$168.96

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The Theatre of Brian Peel

The Theatre of Brian Peel

Author: Martine Pelletier (Professor of English, university of Tours, France)
ISBN: 9781930901186
Format: Hardback
$197.87

A comprehensive study of one of Northern Ireland's most prominent playwrights.  Read More >>

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

Author: Charles Nicholl
ISBN: 9780141023748
Format: Paperback
$29.99

In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken...  Read More >>

Vienna meets Berlin: Cultural Interaction 1918-1933

Vienna meets Berlin: Cultural Interaction 1918-1933...

Author: John Warren ,  Ulrike Zitzslperger
ISBN: 9783039118533
Format: Paperback
$182.03

The volume is based on papers given at the London Symposium ‘Vienna Meets Berlin: Culture in the Metropolis Between...  Read More >>

The Life of William Shakespeare Expurgated

The Life of William Shakespeare Expurgated

Author: William Leavitt Stoddard
ISBN: 9781443707626
Format: Paperback
$32.87

Contents: concerning other lives of Shakespeare; John Shakespeare in the records; William Shakespeare in the records;...  Read More >>

Doña Rosita the Spinster

Doña Rosita the Spinster

Author: Prof Gwynne Edwards ,  Federico Garcia Lorca
ISBN: 9781408105054
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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The Art Of Writing Drama

The Art Of Writing Drama

Author: Michelene Wandor (London Metropolitan University, LONDON)
ISBN: 9780413775863
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The Art of Writing Drama by acclaimed dramatist Michelene Wandor is both a scholarly and immensely practical guide...  Read More >>

What Is Shakespeare? an Introduction to the Great Plays

What Is Shakespeare? an Introduction to the Great Plays...

Author: L A Sherman
ISBN: 9781409790273
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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

English Miracle Plays and Moralities (1907)

English Miracle Plays and Moralities (1907)

Author: E Hamilton Moore
ISBN: 9781436926058
Format: Hardback
$105.47

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Ben Jonson's London: A Jacobean Placename Dictionary

Ben Jonson's London: A Jacobean Placename Dictionary...

Author: Fran C. Chalfant
ISBN: 9780820332918
Format: Paperback
$60.59

Ben Jonson’s London examines the purpose, scope, and success of Jonson’s use of London settings as place names....  Read More >>

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

Author: Harold Bloom
ISBN: 9780007292844
Format: Paperback
$47.99

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""Timon of Athens""

""Timon of Athens""

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Anthony Dawson
ISBN: 9781903436967
Format: Hardback
$264.00

In a respectful, but not reverent, adaptation, Kenneth Cavander reimagines Timon of Athens for the twenty-first...  Read More >>

Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience

Beyond the Golden Door: Jewish American Drama and Jewish...

Author: J. Novick
ISBN: 9781403970091
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Beyond the Golden Door is the first book devoted to showing how Jewish playwrights of the twentieth century have...  Read More >>

Drámaí Thús Na Hathbheochana

Drámaí Thús Na Hathbheochana

Author: Eadaoin Ni Mhuircheartaigh
ISBN: 9781903631522
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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The Humana Festival: The History of New Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville

The Humana Festival: The History of New Plays at Actors...

Author: Southern Illinois University Press ,  Robert A. Schanke
ISBN: 9780809328499
Format: Paperback
$84.70

Examines the success of the Humana Festival of New American Plays festival and theater's Pulitzer Prize-winning...  Read More >>

Elizabethan Shakespeare

Elizabethan Shakespeare

Author: Peter Milward
ISBN: 9781932589474
Format: Paperback
$50.03

To know Shakespeare is to know his plays, not just one by one but all together—or what T. S. Eliot calls """"the...  Read More >>

Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard

Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard

Author: W. Demastes
ISBN: 9780230604711
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England v. 21

Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England v. 21

Author: S.P. Cerasano
ISBN: 9780838641804
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Reflecting a variety of scholarly interests, this volume includes articles that range addressing Africans in Elizabeth...  Read More >>

Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Drama: Discussions, Decisions and Documents

Chronicle of the Pulitzer Prizes for Drama: Discussions,...

Author: Heinz-D. Fischer
ISBN: 9783598301926
Format: Hardback
$114.37

Based on primary sources from the Pulitzer Prize Office at the New York Columbia University, this volume documents...  Read More >>

Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage

Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a...

Author: Parmita Kapadia ,  Craig Dionne
ISBN: 9780754662969
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Examines how the persistent indigenization of Shakespeare complicates the traditional vision of his work as a voice...  Read More >>

Shakespeare - Henry V

Shakespeare - Henry V

Author: Matthew Woodcock
ISBN: 9780230500808
Format: Paperback
$63.36

Matthew Woodcock provides a survey of the critical responses to this popular play, as well as the key debates and...  Read More >>

Timon Of Athens: Third Series

Timon Of Athens: Third Series

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Anthony Dawson
ISBN: 9781903436974
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Timon of Athens has struck many readers as rough and unpolished, perhaps even unfinished, though to others it has...  Read More >>

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