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Euripides Alcestis: With Introduction and Commentary

Euripides Alcestis: With Introduction and Commentary...
Author: L. P. E. Parker (Emeritus Fellow, St Hugh's College, Oxford) ISBN: 9780199254675 Format: Paperback	$128.95
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Trapped in Thought: A Study of the Beckettian Mentality

Trapped in Thought: A Study of the Beckettian Mentality...
Author: Eric P. Levy ISBN: 9780815631026 Format: Hardback	$65.87
Aims to usher readers of Beckett to a higher understanding and appreciation of what is unique about Beckett's representations... Read More >>

The Lady of the Jewel Necklace & the Lady Who Shows Her Love

The Lady of the Jewel Necklace & the Lady Who Shows...
Author: Harsha , Wendy Doniger ISBN: 9780814719961 Format: Hardback	$54.99
A collection containing numerous animal fables that are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct... Read More >>

Euripides Alcestis: With Introduction and Commentary

Euripides Alcestis: With Introduction and Commentary...
Author: L. P. E. Parker (Emeritus Fellow, St Hugh's College, Oxford) ISBN: 9780199254668 Format: Hardback	$363.00
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The Uncensored Boris Godunov: The Case for Pushkin's Original Comedy, with Annotated Text and Translation

The Uncensored Boris Godunov: The Case for Pushkin's...
Author: Chester Dunning , Caryl Emerson ISBN: 9780299207649 Format: Paperback	$53.90
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Shakespeare: Critical Heritage Set

Shakespeare: Critical Heritage Set
Author: Brian Vickers , Brian Vickers ISBN: 9780415444286 Format: Mixed media product	$788.00
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume... Read More >>

The Henry vi Plays

The Henry vi Plays
Author: Stuart Hampton-Reeves , Carol Chillington Rutter ISBN: 9780719056772 Format: Hardback	$183.99
The Henry VI plays are Shakespeare's earliest, most theatrically exciting plays and in their day, they were among... Read More >>

Symposium and Komos in Aristophanes, second edition

Symposium and Komos in Aristophanes, second edition...
Author: Babette Puetz (Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)) , Babette Putz ISBN: 9780856687723 Format: Paperback	$126.72
Feasting, wine, revellers and dancing girls; the modern image of ancient Greek symposia is an enduring one. Many... Read More >>

Closer

Closer
Author: Patrick Marber , Dr Daniel Rosenthal (Author) ISBN: 9780713683295 Format: Paperback	$26.95
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Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres

Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres
Author: Charles Platter (Associate Professor, University of Georgia) ISBN: 9780801885273 Format: Hardback	$139.00
Although Bakhtin applied his theory primarily to the epic and the novel, Platter finds in his work profound implications... Read More >>

Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the Future

Goethe's Faust and European Epic: Forgetting the Future...
Author: Arnd Bohm (Royalty Account) ISBN: 9781571133441 Format: Hardback	$211.20
A reassessment of genre that fills a major gap in Goethe's oeuvre and initiates a radically new reading of Faust.... Read More >>

Identity and Transformation in the Plays of Alexis Piron

Identity and Transformation in the Plays of Alexis Piron...
Author: D. F. Connon ISBN: 9781904350699 Format: Hardback	$273.00
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Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life

Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life
Author: Dominic Dromgoole ISBN: 9780141020075 Format: Paperback	$41.37
Shakespeare has always been a big part of the author's life. This is the story of how he has stumbled, shambled... Read More >>

Shakespeare's Late Work

Shakespeare's Late Work
Author: Lyne ISBN: 9780199265954 Format: Paperback	$51.95
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The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680

The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680...
Author: H. Wolfe ISBN: 9781403970169 Format: Hardback	$224.40
This is the first book to study the work and influence of Elizabeth Cary, author of the first original play by a... Read More >>

Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature

Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature
Author: Philip Schwyzer (Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature and Culture, University of Exeter) ISBN: 9780199206605 Format: Hardback	$201.00
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Shakespeare's Late Work

Shakespeare's Late Work
Author: Lyne ISBN: 9780199265947 Format: Hardback	$65.95
This introduction to Shakespeare's work offers clear but ambitious readings of the late plays. It incorporates collaborative... Read More >>

Yerma

Yerma
Author: Prof Gwynne Edwards , Federico Garcia Lorca ISBN: 9780713683264 Format: Paperback	$26.95
Follows a woman's Herculean struggle against the curse of infertility. The woman's barrenness becomes a metaphor... Read More >>

Tours de force - Die Ästhetik des Grotesken in der französischen Pantomime des 19. Jahrhunderts

Tours de force - Die Ästhetik des Grotesken in der französischen...
Author: Jörg Von Brincken , J Rg Brincken ISBN: 9783484660519 Format: Hardback	$591.36
Die französische Pantomime des 19. Jahrhunderts, ihres Zeichens eine von den Romantikern und der avancierten Kritik... Read More >>

Text & Presentation, 2006

Text & Presentation, 2006
Author: Stratos E. Constantinidis ISBN: 9780786430772 Format: Paperback	$158.27
An anthology that represents the papers presented at the 30th Comparative Drama Conference (Los Angeles, California).... Read More >>

The Faber Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays

The Faber Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays
Author: Kenneth McLeish , Stephen Unwin ISBN: 9780571237456 Format: Paperback	$27.99
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Performing Spanishness: History, Cultural Identity & Censorship in the Theatre of José María Rodríguez Méndez

Performing Spanishness: History, Cultural Identity &...
Author: Michael Thompson ISBN: 9781841501345 Format: Paperback	$58.95
Delves into the theatre of Spanish dramatist Jose Maria Rodriguez Mendez, one of the most significant Spanish playwrights... Read More >>

Godless Shakespeare

Godless Shakespeare
Author: Eric S. Mallin (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) , Simon Palfrey ISBN: 9780826490421 Format: Paperback	$46.99
Part of the ""Shakespeare Now!"" series, this book presents an account of the absence of God and belief in Shakespeare's... Read More >>

To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be
Author: Professor Douglas Bruster (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) , Simon Palfrey ISBN: 9780826489982 Format: Paperback	$46.99
Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' soliloquy is quoted more often than almost any other passage in Shakespeare. Part... Read More >>

Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in English Renaissance Drama, 1558-1642

Devil Theatre: Demonic Possession and Exorcism in English...
Author: Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen ISBN: 9781843841142 Format: Hardback	$237.60
"The so-called ""Devil Theatre"" is here set against its context of non-dramatic texts on possession and exorcism,... Read More >>

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