Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Religion, Allegory, and Literacy in Early Modern England, 1560-1640: The Control of the Word

Religion, Allegory, and Literacy in Early Modern England,...

Author: John S. Pendergast
ISBN: 9780754651475
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Using as a primary focus the manner in which Protestant and Catholic paradigms of the Word affect the understanding...  Read More >>

Entre Cervantes y Shakespeare: Sendas del Renacimiento/Between Shakespeare and Cervantes: Trails Along the Renaissance

Entre Cervantes y Shakespeare: Sendas del Renacimiento/Between...

Author: Zenon Luis-Martinez ,  Luis Gomez Canseco
ISBN: 9781588711045
Format: Paperback
$71.15

This book suggests new directions in the not frequently explored field of comparative studies of Spanish and English...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett: a Passion for Painting

Samuel Beckett: a Passion for Painting

Author: Fionnuala Croke
ISBN: 9781904288169
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Celebrating the Beckett Centenary. Awarded third prize by The Art Newspaper/Axa Art Prize for best catalogue of...  Read More >>

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: 9781558495326
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Demonstrates the importance of textual production to understanding the place of drama in the early modern public...  Read More >>

Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media

Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare...

Author: Diana E. Henderson
ISBN: 9780801444197
Format: Hardback
$154.00

""Like the artists studied here, we pick and choose our Shakespeares, and through that labor another story emerges....  Read More >>

Life Scripts for the Church: Volume I

Life Scripts for the Church: Volume I

Author: Paul Joiner
ISBN: 9781418509095
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Life Scripts for the Church: Volume II

Life Scripts for the Church: Volume II

Author: Paul Joiner
ISBN: 9781418509859
Format: Paperback
$18.50

Break a Leg During Church are dramatics sketches that take your congregation to new places without loading up the...  Read More >>

Life Scripts for the Church: Characters

Life Scripts for the Church: Characters

Author: Paul Joiner
ISBN: 9781418509873
Format: Paperback
$18.50

Guess Who's Coming to Church? Gus and Gladys Glum< are the couple you love to hate. But watch out-because you'll...  Read More >>

Pornoboscodidascalus Latinus (1624): Kaspar Barth's Neo-Latin Translation of Celestina

Pornoboscodidascalus Latinus (1624): Kaspar Barth's...

Author: Enrique Fernández
ISBN: 9780807892886
Format: Paperback
$125.40

Contains the transcription of the Neo-Latin text, as well as the English translation of Barth's prologue and notes....  Read More >>

Illustrations Of Shakespeare And Of Ancient Manners, With Dissertations On The Clowns And Fools Of Shakespeare

Illustrations Of Shakespeare And Of Ancient Manners,...

Author: Francis Douce ,  Jackson
ISBN: 9781428634305
Format: Paperback
$129.23

On The Collection Of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum; And On The English Morris Dance.  Read More >>

Staging Ireland: Representations in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama

Staging Ireland: Representations in Shakespeare and...

Author: Stephen O'Neill
ISBN: 9781851829897
Format: Hardback
$130.95

This book is a comprehensive study of the representation of Ireland in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries....  Read More >>

Beckett's Books: A Cultural History of the Interwar Notes

Beckett's Books: A Cultural History of the Interwar...

Author: Dr Matthew Feldman (University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9780826490599
Format: Hardback
$300.00

Samuel Beckett is a canonical, if challenging, giant of 20th century literature. This monograph is based on an analysis...  Read More >>

Pinter in the Theatre

Pinter in the Theatre

Author: Ian Smith ,  Harold Pinter
ISBN: 9781854598646
Format: Paperback
$25.85

The first book to focus on Pinter’s work in the theatre – through interviews with the man himself and with actors...  Read More >>

Speaking in Tongues: Languages at Play in the Theatre

Speaking in Tongues: Languages at Play in the Theatre...

Author: Marvin Carlson
ISBN: 9780472115471
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Explores the political, social, and historical implications of staged language  Read More >>

How to Read a Shakespeare Play

How to Read a Shakespeare Play

Author: David Bevington (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781405113960
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Why Shakespeare?: An Introduction to the Playwright's Art

Why Shakespeare?: An Introduction to the Playwright's...

Author: G.M. Pinciss
ISBN: 9780826418265
Format: Paperback
$39.47

By concentrating on a dozen of his best-known plays, and analysing their structural and theatrical elements as well...  Read More >>

Hernani

Hernani

Author: Victor Hugo ,  John J Janc
ISBN: 9781589770317
Format: Paperback
$36.83

Victor Hugo fue un poeta, dramaturgo y novelista romantico frances, considerado como uno de los mas importantes...  Read More >>

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Nick de Somogyi
ISBN: 9781854599049
Format: Paperback
$33.61

An edition of the play in the Shakespeare Folios series, offering the absolute authenticity of the First Folio in...  Read More >>

How to Read a Shakespeare Play

How to Read a Shakespeare Play

Author: David Bevington (University of Chicago)
ISBN: 9781405113953
Format: Hardback
$163.95

This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Revenge Tragedies of the Renaissance

Revenge Tragedies of the Renaissance

Author: Janet Clare
ISBN: 9780746309186
Format: Paperback
$68.64

A study of revenge tragedies, which suggests that genres are not passively inherited, but made and re-made every...  Read More >>

Renaissance Drama v. 35; New Series

Renaissance Drama v. 35; New Series

Author: Mary Floyd-Wilson ,  Garrett A. Sullivan
ISBN: 9780810123656
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Part of a series of annual publications, which is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance...  Read More >>

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