Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Hamlet: Character Studies

Hamlet: Character Studies
Author: Dr Michael Davies (University of Liverpool, UK)
ISBN: 9780826495914
Format: Hardback 		$80.00

Arguably Shakespeare's famous play, few works have commanded so much critical attention in relation to 'character'...  Read More >>

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The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness

The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles:...
Author: Kathleen Riley (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199534487
Format: Hardback 		$363.00

A study of the reception of Euripides' tragedy The Madness of Herakles from late antiquity to the present day. Kathleen...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare the Thinker

Shakespeare the Thinker
Author: A. D. Nuttall
ISBN: 9780300136296
Format: Paperback 		$30.95

Presents a study of Shakespeare's intellectual preoccupations. This book offers guidance to Shakespeare's plays...  Read More >>

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Richard III

Richard III
Author: William Shakespeare ,  Burton Raffel
ISBN: 9780300122022
Format: Paperback 		$18.35

Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by moral restraint, and embittered by physical deformity, Richard, the younger...  Read More >>

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Metatheater in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama: Four Forms of Theatrical Self-Reflexivity

Metatheater in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama: Four...
Author: Hsiang-Chun Chu ,  Ching-His Perng
ISBN: 9780773450615
Format: Hardback 		$290.27

Explores the theatrical self-reflexivity in early modern drama in terms of the meta theatrical critical perspective...  Read More >>

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As You Like It; A Pleasant Comedy

As You Like It; A Pleasant Comedy
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781409700005
Format: Paperback 		$71.15

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

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King Richard II

King Richard II
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781605974569
Format: Paperback 		$24.95

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The Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford Shakespeare

The Complete Sonnets and Poems: The Oxford Shakespeare...
Author: William Shakespeare ,  Colin Burrow (, University Senior Lecturer and a Fellow and Tutor of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780199535798
Format: Paperback 		$21.95

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Romeo and Juliet: The Oxford Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet: The Oxford Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare ,  Jill L. Levenson (Professor of English, Professor of English, Trinity College, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780199535897
Format: Paperback 		$28.91

The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate...  Read More >>

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The Tragedy of Coriolanus: The Oxford Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Coriolanus: The Oxford Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare ,  R. B. Parker (Professor of English, Trinity College, Professor of English, Trinity College, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780199535804
Format: Paperback 		$21.95

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The Merchant of Venice: The Oxford Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice: The Oxford Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare ,  Jay L. Halio (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Delaware)
ISBN: 9780199535859
Format: Paperback 		$18.95

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Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The Oxford Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The Oxford Shakespeare...
Author: William Shakespeare ,  Roger Warren (Senior Lecturer in English, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Leicester)
ISBN: 9780199536092
Format: Paperback 		$21.95

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Othello: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Moor of Venice

Othello: The Oxford Shakespeare: The Moor of Venice...
Author: William Shakespeare ,  Michael Neill (Professor of English, University of Auckland)
ISBN: 9780199535873
Format: Paperback 		$21.95

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Performance, Technology and Science

Performance, Technology and Science
Author: Johannes Birringer
ISBN: 9781555540791
Format: Paperback 		$44.99

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The Rover and Other Plays

The Rover and Other Plays
Author: Aphra Behn ,  Jane Spencer (Lecturer in English Literature, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780199540204
Format: Paperback 		$24.95

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Measure for Measure: The Oxford Shakespeare

Measure for Measure: The Oxford Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare ,  N. W. Bawcutt (Reader in English Literature, Reader in English Literature, University of Liverpool)
ISBN: 9780199535842
Format: Paperback 		$28.91

When Claudio breaks the new laws against vice in Vienna by getting his financee, Julietta, pregnant, a series of...  Read More >>

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The Tempest: The Oxford Shakespeare

The Tempest: The Oxford Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare ,  Stephen Orgel (Professor of EnglishStanford University, Professor of EnglishStanford University)
ISBN: 9780199535903
Format: Paperback 		$28.91

Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the...  Read More >>

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Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist

Ben Jonson, Renaissance Dramatist
Author: Sean McEvoy (English and Drama Teacher, Vardean College, Brighton) ,  Sean McEvoy
ISBN: 9780748623020
Format: Paperback 		$49.99

This new guide to the English renaissance's most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the...  Read More >>

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Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe, Renaissance Dramatist
Author: Lisa Hopkins (Professor Emerita of English, Sheffield Hallam University) ,  Sean McEvoy
ISBN: 9780748624737
Format: Paperback 		$49.99

An accessible student guide to all of the plays of Christopher Marlowe.  Read More >>

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady...
Author: Oscar Wilde ,  Peter Raby (Senior Lecturer and Head of Drama Department, Senior Lecturer and Head of Drama Department, Homerton College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780199535972
Format: Paperback 		$28.91

Oscar Wilde was already one of the best known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary...  Read More >>

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The Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Macbeth: The Oxford Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare ,  Nicholas Brooke (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of East Anglia)
ISBN: 9780199535835
Format: Paperback 		$28.91

Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Indeed, for 250...  Read More >>

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The Tragedy of King Richard III: The Oxford Shakespeare

The Tragedy of King Richard III: The Oxford Shakespeare...
Author: William Shakespeare ,  John Jowett (Reader in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, Reader in Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9780199535880
Format: Paperback 		$18.95

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A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Oxford Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare ,  Peter Holland (Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon)
ISBN: 9780199535866
Format: Paperback 		$22.95

A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakepeare's plays.  It brings together aristocrats, workers,...  Read More >>

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Anthony and Cleopatra: The Oxford Shakespeare

Anthony and Cleopatra: The Oxford Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare ,  Michael Neill (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Auckland)
ISBN: 9780199535781
Format: Paperback 		$17.95

In its towering central characters, vast geographical and historical sweep, and its variety of style and mood, Anthony...  Read More >>

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Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing: The Oxford Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare ,  Sheldon P. Zitner (Professor Emeritus, Trinity College, Professor Emeritus, Trinity College, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780199536115
Format: Paperback 		$21.95

Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedicts, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

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