Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Jacobean Dramatists: Critical Heritage Set

Jacobean Dramatists: Critical Heritage Set

Author: B.C. Southam ,  B C Southam
ISBN: 9780415444217
Format: Hardback
$893.00

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The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare: Text and Theatrical Technique

The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare: Text and...

Author: Christopher J. Cobb
ISBN: 9780874139716
Format: Hardback
$124.07

Few plays have both attracted and resisted genre study as strongly as Shakespeare's late plays. This book takes...  Read More >>

Tennessee Williams'  """"the Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams' """"the Glass Menagerie

Author: Harold Bloom
ISBN: 9780791093498
Format: Hardback
$118.80

The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams' first popular success. The play introduced Williams' notion of plastic,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars

Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars

Author: Amy Scott-Douglass ,  Simon Palfrey
ISBN: 9780826486998
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Offers an insight into Shakespeare's place in today's soceity, particularly in major institutions such as the military,...  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: 9780787688417
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 Inside: The Bard Behind Bars

Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars

Author: Amy Scott-Douglass ,  Simon Palfrey
ISBN: 9780826486981
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Offers an insight into Shakespeare's place in today's soceity, particularly in major institutions such as the military,...  Read More >>

The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen...

Author: Jayne Elisabeth Archer (Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth) ,  Elizabeth Goldring (Research Fellow, University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9780199291571
Format: Hardback
$295.95

The reign of Elizabeth I was a Golden Age of English culture. Part of Elizabeth's policy of 'popular monarchy' took...  Read More >>

Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter

Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style...

Author: Nicholas Baechle
ISBN: 9780739121436
Format: Paperback
$74.95

This study is an interpretation of the choices the tragedians made in regard to certain forms of standardized variations...  Read More >>

Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style in the Tragic Trimeter

Metrical Constraint and the Interpretation of Style...

Author: Nicholas Baechle
ISBN: 9780739109502
Format: Hardback
$188.95

This study is an interpretation of the choices the tragedians made in regard to certain forms of standardized variations...  Read More >>

Rhetorical Readings, Dark Comedies, and Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Rhetorical Readings, Dark Comedies, and Shakespeare's...

Author: Ira Clark
ISBN: 9780813030401
Format: Hardback
$158.27

In the very early 1600s, Shakespeare began writing plays that have proved troubling for audiences. """"Measure for...  Read More >>

Wirklichkeit Und Literatur: Strategien Dokumentarischen Schreibens in Der Weimarer Republik

Wirklichkeit Und Literatur: Strategien Dokumentarischen...

Author: Matthias Uecker
ISBN: 9783039110575
Format: Paperback
$173.62

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The Tempest

The Tempest

Author: Trevor Griffiths
ISBN: 9781403934789
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The commentary at the heart of the book introduces readers to the challenge of reading The Tempest as a text and...  Read More >>

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

Author: P. Edmondson ,  Stuart Hampton-Reeves
ISBN: 9781403944177
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Measure for Measure generates much debate and is strikingly modern. This introductory guide offers a scene-by-scene...  Read More >>

The Tempest

The Tempest

Author: Trevor Griffiths
ISBN: 9781403934772
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Introducing readers to the challenge of reading, this work examines the ways that other writers and political thinkers...  Read More >>

Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings Associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham

Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings Associated...

Author: Robert D. Hume ,  Harold Love
ISBN: 9780198127611
Format: Hardback
$537.95

George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the late...  Read More >>

Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham: Volume I

Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated...

Author: Robert D. Hume (Evan Pugh Professor of English Literature, Penn State University) ,  The late Harold Love (Professor of English, Emeritus, Monash University)
ISBN: 9780199203635
Format: Hardback
$546.95

George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, was one of the most scandalous and controversial figures of the late...  Read More >>

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

Author: P. Edmondson ,  Stuart Hampton-Reeves
ISBN: 9781403944160
Format: Hardback
$211.20

""Measure for Measure"" is strikingly modern in its treatment of justice, the limits of authority, surveillance,...  Read More >>

Der Jedermann im 16. Jahrhundert

Der Jedermann im 16. Jahrhundert

Author: Raphael Dammer ,  Benedikt Jeßing
ISBN: 9783110199444
Format: Hardback
$257.31

Erstmals werden hier zwei frühneuzeitliche Jedermann-Dramen gemeinsam vorgelegt und einem breiteren Publikum erschlossen:...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Religious Language: A Dictionary

Shakespeare's Religious Language: A Dictionary

Author: Professor R. Chris Hassel Jr.
ISBN: 9780826493323
Format: Paperback
$145.20

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Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World

Oedipus at Colonus: Sophocles, Athens, and the World...

Author: Andreas Markantonatos
ISBN: 9783110193268
Format: Hardback
$205.83

The series consists of a variety of monographs from the fields of Classical Philology and Ancient History. While...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Settings: Stratford / Park Hall, Lancashire / Cheshire / The Catholic Mission, and London

Shakespeare Settings: Stratford / Park Hall, Lancashire...

Author: Carol Curt Enos
ISBN: 9781587366536
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Shakespeare Settings can be read as a narrative, but it is also a reference work that allows one to trace connections...  Read More >>

Sakoontala or The Lost Ring (An Indian Drama)

Sakoontala or The Lost Ring (An Indian Drama)

Author: Kalidasa
ISBN: 9781428069848
Format: Paperback
$124.05

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