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A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama

A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama
Author: IC Storey , Arlene Allan ISBN: 9781405102155 Format: Paperback	$118.67
This Blackwell Guide introduces ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth century... Read More >>

Naked Playwriting: The Art, the Craft & the Life Laid Bare

Naked Playwriting: The Art, the Craft & the Life Laid...
Author: William Missouri Downs , Robin U Russin ISBN: 9781879505766 Format: Paperback	$57.95
Offers a playwriting course, from developing a theme through plotting and structuring a play, developing characters,... Read More >>

The History of Henry IV, Part 1

The History of Henry IV, Part 1
Author: William Shakespeare , Barbara A Mowat ISBN: 9781417659265 Format: Hardback	$42.24
For use in schools and libraries only. Shakespeare's play dealing... Read More >>

A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama

A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama
Author: IC Storey , Arlene Allan ISBN: 9781405102148 Format: Hardback	$321.95
Introduces ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth century BC to the third century... Read More >>

A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism

A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism
Author: Shane Weller ISBN: 9781904713081 Format: Paperback	$154.00
This study examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and nihilism. Read More >>

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
Author: Edith Nesbit , E Nesbit ISBN: 9781595406255 Format: Paperback	$34.19
Twenty stories from Shakespeare retold in lively prose. The author makes the complex language of Shakespeare's greatest... Read More >>

Montaigne and Shakespeare

Montaigne and Shakespeare
Author: John Robertson ISBN: 9781432604950 Format: Hardback	$100.19
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Shakespeare's Bones

Shakespeare's Bones
Author: C M Ingleby , 1st World Library ISBN: 9781595406132 Format: Paperback	$28.91
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A Reader's Guide to Modern British Drama

A Reader's Guide to Modern British Drama
Author: Sanford Sternlicht ISBN: 9780815630760 Format: Paperback	$52.67
A discussion of the maturation of British drama into a theatre of ideas and on to the vital feminist drama that... Read More >>

Theatricality As Medium

Theatricality As Medium
Author: Samuel Weber ISBN: 9780823224166 Format: Paperback	$69.95
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Bertolt Brecht's Dramatic Theory

Bertolt Brecht's Dramatic Theory
Author: John J. White ISBN: 9781571130761 Format: Hardback	$237.60
Detailed analysis of Brecht's extensive theoretical writings on the theater, including newly available works. Read More >>

Theatricality As Medium

Theatricality As Medium
Author: Samuel Weber ISBN: 9780823224159 Format: Hardback	$176.95
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Coriolanus: A Guide to the Play

Coriolanus: A Guide to the Play
Author: Mary Steible ISBN: 9780313329623 Format: Hardback	$150.00
With thematic consistency, the play presents the class conflict between Roman patricians and plebeians in terms... Read More >>

Julius Caesar: New Critical Essays

Julius Caesar: New Critical Essays
Author: Horst Zander ISBN: 9780815335078 Format: Hardback	$336.00
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Shaw Shadows: Rereading the Texts of Bernard Shaw

Shaw Shadows: Rereading the Texts of Bernard Shaw
Author: Peter B. Gahan , R. F. Dietrich ISBN: 9780813027692 Format: Hardback	$158.27
Peter Gahan argues that George Bernard Shaw anticipated much of what came to be known as poststructuralism. His... Read More >>

Tudor Drama Before Shakespeare, 1485-1590: New Directions for Research, Criticism and Pedagogy

Tudor Drama Before Shakespeare, 1485-1590: New Directions...
Author: L. Kermode , J. Scott-Warren ISBN: 9781403965264 Format: Hardback	$263.97
This collection brings together established scholars and new names in the field of Tudor drama studies. Read More >>

Revisionist Shakespeare: Transitional Ideologies in Texts and Contexts

Revisionist Shakespeare: Transitional Ideologies in...
Author: P. Cefalu ISBN: 9781403964847 Format: Hardback	$145.17
Revisionist Shakespeare appropriates revisionist history in order to both criticize traditional transitional interpretations... Read More >>

Arden Bundle Kb

Arden Bundle Kb
Author: William Shakespeare ISBN: 9781408018507 Format: Paperback	$95.71
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Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court: Politics, Drama, Sexuality

Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court: Politics,...
Author: Jeremy W Webster ISBN: 9781281368447 Format: Electronic book text	$264.00
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Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times

Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times
Author: Professor of Theatre Studies Linda Ben-Zvi (Tel Aviv University) ISBN: 9781280454172 Format: Electronic book text	$179.52
Venturesome feminist, historian Nancy Cott's term, perfectly describes playwright and novelist Susan Glaspell (1876-1948),... Read More >>

Shakespeare in Japan

Shakespeare in Japan
Author: Tetsuo Kishi , Graham Bradshaw ISBN: 9781281294418 Format: Electronic book text	$264.00
Since the late Meiji period, Shakespeare has held a central place in Japanese literary culture. This account explores... Read More >>

Music in Shakespeare

Music in Shakespeare
Author: Christopher R Wilson , Michela Calore ISBN: 9781281294623 Format: Electronic book text	$396.00
Musical references, allusions to music, and music stage directions abound in Shakespeare, ranging from simple trumpet... Read More >>

Local Shakespeares

Local Shakespeares
Author: Martin Orkin (University of Haifa, Israel) ISBN: 9781281157546 Format: Electronic book text	$348.48
This remarkable volume challenges scholars and students to look beyond a dominant European and North American 'metropolitan... Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture

The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture...
Author: Paul Goring (Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (Ntnu), Norway) ISBN: 9781280749766 Format: Undefined	$330.00
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Shakespeare and Feminist Performance: Ideology on Stage

Shakespeare and Feminist Performance: Ideology on Stage...
Author: Sarah Werner ISBN: 9781299285576 Format: Electronic book text	$343.20
Argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing... Read More >>

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