Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin

In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter...
Author: Ian Scott
ISBN: 9780813123905
Format: Hardback 		$118.80

Because screenwriter Robert Riskin spent most of his career collaborating with legendary Hollywood director Frank...  Read More >>

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Shakespeare's Sexual Language: A Glossary

Shakespeare's Sexual Language: A Glossary
Author: Professor Gordon Williams
ISBN: 9780826491343
Format: Paperback 		$160.00

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Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism

Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business...
Author: Alan Sinfield (University of Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9780415402361
Format: Paperback 		$83.99

This reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding textuality, history and culture, has been written...  Read More >>

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The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers and Readers in Early Modern England

The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers and Readers...
Author: Marta Straznicky
ISBN: 9781558495333
Format: Paperback 		$58.30

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Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity

Perspectives on Wole Soyinka: Freedom and Complexity...
Author: Biodun Jeyifo
ISBN: 9781578069309
Format: Paperback 		$62.70

This collection of the most significant and illuminating critical essays about the works of Wole Soyinka over the...  Read More >>

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Fairies, Fractions Women, And The Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and Culture

Fairies, Fractions Women, And The Old Faith: Fairy Lore...
Author: Regina Buccol
ISBN: 9781575911038
Format: Hardback 		$145.20

Examines the ways in which the fairy, rebellious woman, quasi-Catholic trio repeatedly stages resistance to early...  Read More >>

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Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker

Theatre of Catastrophe: New Essays on Howard Barker...
Author: Karoline Gritzner (Author) ,  Professor David Ian Rabey (Author)
ISBN: 9781840026726
Format: Paperback 		$39.99

Features fifteen varied essays that discuss the style, language and vision of one of Britain's most influential...  Read More >>

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Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism, and American Theatre, 1923-1937

Messiah of the New Technique: John Howard Lawson, Communism,...
Author: Jonathan L Chambers ,  Robert A. Schanke
ISBN: 9780809326990
Format: Hardback 		$145.20

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Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism

Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business...
Author: Alan Sinfield (University of Sussex, UK)
ISBN: 9780415402354
Format: Hardback 		$305.00

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Shakespeare: The Basics

Shakespeare: The Basics
Author: Sean McEvoy (Varndean College, Brighton, UK and Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415362467
Format: Paperback 		$52.67

Aiming to demystify Shakespeare's plays, this title provides a general introduction to the plays. Illustrating how...  Read More >>

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Spirit, Soul, and City: Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus'

Spirit, Soul, and City: Shakespeare's 'Coriolanus'
Author: Jan H. Blits
ISBN: 9780739115411
Format: Hardback 		$232.32

Offers a reading of ""Coriolanus"", Shakespeare's most political play and the last of his great tragedies. Portraying...  Read More >>

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Brecht and Political Theatre: The Mother on Stage

Brecht and Political Theatre: The Mother on Stage
Author: Laura Bradley (Lecturer in German, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780199286584
Format: Hardback 		$358.00

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Candida

Candida
Author: George Bernard Shaw ,  Peter Gahan
ISBN: 9780143039785
Format: Paperback 		$31.68

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Shakespeare: The Basics

Shakespeare: The Basics
Author: Sean McEvoy (Varndean College, Brighton, UK and Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415362450
Format: Hardback 		$250.80

Aiming to demystify Shakespeare's plays, this title provides a general introduction to the plays. Illustrating how...  Read More >>

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William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition

William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven: A Critical Edition...
Author: Matthew Dimmock
ISBN: 9780754654063
Format: Hardback 		$315.00

William Percy's ""Mahomet and His Heaven"" (1601) is a modern play based upon the Qur'an, which places Prophet Muhammad...  Read More >>

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Hamlet

Hamlet
Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781846373930
Format: Paperback 		$55.18

A perfect volume to initiate majors into the discipline and delight of carefully examining presumptions, priorities,...  Read More >>

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American Drama 1945 - 2000: An Introduction

American Drama 1945 - 2000: An Introduction
Author: David Krasner (Yale University)
ISBN: 9781405120876
Format: Paperback 		$70.95

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Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism

Shakespeare in the World of Communism and Socialism...
Author: Irena Makaryk ,  Joseph G Price
ISBN: 9780802090584
Format: Hardback 		$256.08

The general theme that emerges from this study is the deeply ambivalent nature of communist Shakespeare who, like...  Read More >>

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American Drama 1945 - 2000: An Introduction

American Drama 1945 - 2000: An Introduction
Author: David Krasner (Yale University)
ISBN: 9781405120869
Format: Hardback 		$194.95

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Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of his Informal Language

Shakespeare's Non-Standard English: A Dictionary of...
Author: Professor Norman Blake
ISBN: 9780826491237
Format: Paperback 		$160.00

Includes various types of non-standard and informal language, and lists the examples found in Shakespeare's works....  Read More >>

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The Shakespeare Code

The Shakespeare Code
Author: Virginia M. Fellows
ISBN: 9781932890020
Format: Paperback 		$52.67

Reveals a story of secret marriage, children of Elizabeth I, Virgin Queen, and Francis Bacon as the true author...  Read More >>

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Many Happy Returns

Many Happy Returns
Author: Bernard Farrell
ISBN: 9781856355254
Format: Paperback 		$52.67

Irene and Arthur have their house festooned for the return of Declan, the self-made millionaire from New Zealand....  Read More >>

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Stories from Shakespeare: """Julius Caesar "", ""The Merchant of Venice"", "" The Taming of the Shrew"", ""As You Like it"", ""Richard II"", ""Henry IV Part I and Part 2"", "" The Merry Wives of Windsor"""

Stories from Shakespeare: """Julius Caesar "", ""The...
Author: William Shakespeare ,  David Timson
ISBN: 9789626344095
Format: Audio 		$60.67

"Retells the stories from Shakespeare's plays. This volume 2 includes key plays such as ""Julius Caesar"", ""The...  Read More >>

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Euripides Danae and Dictys: Introduction, Text and Commentary

Euripides Danae and Dictys: Introduction, Text and Commentary...
Author: Ioanna Karamanou
ISBN: 9783598778407
Format: Hardback 		$240.15

The cautious recovery of the two lost plays based on the available evidence and the detailed commentary on their...  Read More >>

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Studies in Shakespeare Bibliography and Theatre

Studies in Shakespeare Bibliography and Theatre
Author: James G McManaway ,  Richard Hosley
ISBN: 9780918016485
Format: Hardback 		$104.79

This volume is designed to pay homage to the scholarship of James G. McManaway, and at the same time to make the...  Read More >>

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