Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The One-Act Play Companion: A Guide to plays, playwrights and performance

The One-Act Play Companion: A Guide to plays, playwrights...

Author: Colin Dolley ,  Rex Walford
ISBN: 9780713674286
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Surveying the work of over 250 playwrights, this guide covers multiple styles, nationalities and periods. Guidance...  Read More >>

Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare

Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare...

Author: Bertram Fields
ISBN: 9780060834173
Format: Paperback
$42.11

In the perfect match of author and material, one of America's top attorneys investigates the points of one of the...  Read More >>

Euripides: Bacchar

Euripides: Bacchar

Author: Sophie Mills
ISBN: 9780715634301
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Accessible introductions to ancient tragedies discussing the main themes of a play and the developments in modern...  Read More >>

Euripides: ""Herakles""

Euripides: ""Herakles""

Author: Emma Griffiths
ISBN: 9780715631867
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Euripides' play ""Herakles"" presents a very different portrait of the eponymous hero from that of popular imagination....  Read More >>

Landmarks in German Comedy

Landmarks in German Comedy

Author: Peter Hutchinson ,  H S Reiss
ISBN: 9783039101856
Format: Paperback
$156.54

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Figuring Genre in Roman Satire

Figuring Genre in Roman Satire

Author: Catherine Keane (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, Washington University)
ISBN: 9780195183306
Format: Hardback
$111.95

Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, the verse satirists of ancient Rome, developed a unique mode of social criticism by...  Read More >>

The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and the Practical Spatial Arts 1580-1630

The English Renaissance Stage: Geometry, Poetics, and...

Author: Henry S. Turner (Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
ISBN: 9780199287383
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Examines the history of English dramatic form and its relationship to the mathematics, technology, and early scientific...  Read More >>

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature: 5 volumes: print and e-reference editions available

The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature: 5 volumes:...

Author: David Scott Kastan (Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780195169218
Format: Hardback
$1851.00

The Encyclopedia covers the entire history of British and Irish literature from the seventh century to the present....  Read More >>

Shakespeare an Archer

Shakespeare an Archer

Author: William, Lowes Rushton
ISBN: 9781410225498
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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Shakespeare's Bones

Shakespeare's Bones

Author: C M Ingleby ,  1st World Library
ISBN: 9781421809137
Format: Hardback
$71.15

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

In the Footsteps of William Shakespeare

In the Footsteps of William Shakespeare

Author: Christa Jansohn
ISBN: 9783825882716
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations

The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations

Author: Georges Polti
ISBN: 9781594621345
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Krapp's Last Tape and Not I

Krapp's Last Tape and Not I

Author: Samuel Beckett ,  Juliet Stevenson
ISBN: 9789626343326
Format: Audio
$47.47

Following the acclaimed recordings of Beckett's Trilogy, ""Molloy"", ""Malone Dies"" and ""The Unnamable"", this...  Read More >>

Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot

Author: S. Beckett
ISBN: 9789626344026
Format: Audio
$47.47

John Tydeman, for many years head of BBC Radio Drama, takes a fresh look at one of the milestones in Western drama....  Read More >>

Romeo y Julieta

Romeo y Julieta

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9788489163744
Format: Undefined
$18.35

Texto integro con introduccion --P. [4] of cover.  Read More >>

Acts of Criticism: Performance Matters in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Essays in Honor of James P.Lusardi

Acts of Criticism: Performance Matters in Shakespeare...

Author: Paul Nelsen ,  June Schlueter
ISBN: 9780838640593
Format: Hardback
$132.00

Assembles a cast of 16 distinguished theater historians and performance critics who contribute to the understanding...  Read More >>

Text & Presentation, 2005

Text & Presentation, 2005

Author: Stratos E. Constantinidis
ISBN: 9780786425808
Format: Paperback
$93.50

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Shakespeare's Theater of Likeness

Shakespeare's Theater of Likeness

Author: R.A. Shoaf
ISBN: 9780976704232
Format: Paperback
$73.92

"Shoaf demonstrates that part of the enduring value of Shakespeare's art is his poetry of likeness in the ""land...  Read More >>

The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy

The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy

Author: Casey Dué
ISBN: 9780292722187
Format: Paperback
$32.95

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Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making of a New Genre

Pastoral Drama in Early Modern Italy: The Making of...

Author: Lisa Sampson
ISBN: 9781904713067
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre

The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American...

Author: Priscilla Meléndez
ISBN: 9780807892862
Format: Paperback
$110.75

Underscores the tendency of Spanish American farce for self-parody, its capacity to uncover and also carry out a...  Read More >>

Conversations with August Wilson

Conversations with August Wilson

Author: Jackson R. Bryer ,  Mary C. Hartig
ISBN: 9781578068319
Format: Paperback
$53.90

In little more than twenty years, playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) completed a ten-play cycle depicting African...  Read More >>

Calderon and the Baroque Tradition

Calderon and the Baroque Tradition

Author: Kurt Levy ,  Jesús Ara
ISBN: 9781554585168
Format: Paperback
$56.10

Assembles an impressive collection of essays relating the baroque artistic tradition to such aspects of Pedro Calderón's...  Read More >>

The Boozy Bard: Shakespeare on Drinking

The Boozy Bard: Shakespeare on Drinking

Author: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 9780785821311
Format: Hardback
$39.57

Shakespeare on Drinking Categorized by play/poem, this thirst quenching compendium cites the instances where Shakespeare...  Read More >>

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