Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Understanding Michael Frayn

Understanding Michael Frayn

Author: Merritt Moseley ,  Matthew J. Bruccoli
ISBN: 9781570036279
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Best known for his play """"Noises Off"""", Michael Frayn has garnered widespread critical acclaim and a number...  Read More >>

Aeschylus' Supplices: Play and Trilogy (second edition)

Aeschylus' Supplices: Play and Trilogy (second edition)...

Author: A. F. Garvie
ISBN: 9781904675365
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This book's first appearance (1969) was a full response to the publication (in 1952) of a papyrus fragment from...  Read More >>

Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice

Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives...

Author: Sherrill Grace ,  Jerry Wasserman
ISBN: 9780889225404
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This groundbreaking exploration of a wide range of contemporary theorists and playwrights covers an extraordinary...  Read More >>

Classical Mythology in Shakespeare

Classical Mythology in Shakespeare

Author: Robert Kilburn Root
ISBN: 9781428625495
Format: Paperback
$55.31

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Life of William Congreve

Life of William Congreve

Author: Edmund Gosse
ISBN: 9781428631090
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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Fairy Tales Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English Writers

Fairy Tales Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare...

Author: William Carew Hazlitt ,  Joseph Ritson
ISBN: 9781428631410
Format: Paperback
$97.55

To Which Are Prefixed Two Preliminary Dissertations 1. On Pigmies And 2. On Fairies By Joseph Ritson.  Read More >>

The Age of Shakespeare, 1579-1631: Drama V2

The Age of Shakespeare, 1579-1631: Drama V2

Author: Thomas Seccombe ,  J W Allen
ISBN: 9781428627826
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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The Age of Shakespeare, 1579-1631: Poetry and Prose V1

The Age of Shakespeare, 1579-1631: Poetry and Prose...

Author: Thomas Seccombe ,  J W Allen
ISBN: 9781428627833
Format: Paperback
$81.71

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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

Author: Professor James Shapiro (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780060088743
Format: Paperback
$39.57

In 1599, an epochal year for Shakespeare and England, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays while Elizabethans...  Read More >>

A Companion to Goethe's Faust: Parts I and II

A Companion to Goethe's Faust: Parts I and II

Author: Paul Bishop ,  Alberto Destro
ISBN: 9781571133359
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Cutting-edge criticism on major aspects of Goethe's best-known work.  Read More >>

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson

Author: Harry Justin Elam, Jr. ,  Harry Justin Elam, Jr.
ISBN: 9780472031634
Format: Paperback
$73.79

An indispensable guide to the dramatic work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights  Read More >>

Ghosts: Death'S Double and the Phenomena of Theatre

Ghosts: Death'S Double and the Phenomena of Theatre...

Author: Alice Rayner
ISBN: 9780816645442
Format: Hardback
$178.20

Examines theatre as a memorial practice that is haunted by the presence of loss, looking at how aspects of stage-craft...  Read More >>

Beckett's Books: A Cultural History of Samuel Beckett's 'Interwar Notes'. Continuum Literary Studies Series.

Beckett's Books: A Cultural History of Samuel Beckett's...

Author: Matthew Feldman (University of Northampton, UK)
ISBN: 9781281292179
Format: Electronic book text
$411.84

By assessing notebooks and transcriptions taken by Samuel Beckett and recently released by the Beckett International...  Read More >>

Drama for Students

Drama for Students

Author: Sara Constantakis ,  Carole L Hamilton
ISBN: 9780787681197
Format: Hardback
$327.36

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William Shakespeare: A Critical Study

William Shakespeare: A Critical Study

Author: George Brandes
ISBN: 9781428621015
Format: Paperback
$134.51

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Shakespeare And Classical Antiquity: Greek And Latin Antiquity As Presented In Shakespeare's Plays

Shakespeare And Classical Antiquity: Greek And Latin...

Author: Paul Stapfer ,  Emily J. Carey
ISBN: 9781428614772
Format: Paperback
$102.83

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Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays

Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of...

Author: James Fisher
ISBN: 9780786425365
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Playwright Tony Kushner is a voice of intellectualism, neo-socialism, gay activism, and political outrage in an...  Read More >>

The Fragmentation of the Proper Name and the Crisis of Degree: Deconstructing King Lear

The Fragmentation of the Proper Name and the Crisis...

Author: Radhouan Ben Amara
ISBN: 9783825867362
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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Shakespeares elisabethanisches Publikum

Shakespeares elisabethanisches Publikum

Author: Bettina Boecker
ISBN: 9783484660489
Format: Paperback
$406.56

Seit den Anfängen der englischen Shakespearekritik im späten 17. Jahrhundert wird das ursprüngliche Publikum des...  Read More >>

Considering Alan Ball: Essays on Sexuality, Death and America in the Television and Film Writings

Considering Alan Ball: Essays on Sexuality, Death and...

Author: Thomas Fahy
ISBN: 9780786425921
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Academy Award-winning screenwriter of the film """"American Beauty"""" and creator of the HBO series """"Six Feet...  Read More >>

Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?

Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?

Author: Robin Williams
ISBN: 9780321426406
Format: Hardback
$73.79

It is long overdue that someone took a closer look at the brilliant Mary Sidney. I have a suspicion that Mary Sidney’s...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Tales from Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Tales from Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare ,  David Pratt Butler
ISBN: 9781598951813
Format: Mixed media product
$118.77

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father, John Shakespeare, was a store owner and...  Read More >>

The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music

The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music

Author: Barbara Ravelhofer (Lecturer in English Literature, University of Durham)
ISBN: 9780199286591
Format: Hardback
$384.95

Studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic...  Read More >>

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