Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

Moliere: His Life and His Works

Moliere: His Life and His Works

Author: Brander Matthews
ISBN: 9781410214904
Format: Paperback
$77.88

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August Wilson: A Literary Companion

August Wilson: A Literary Companion

Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
ISBN: 9780786419036
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This literary companion provides the reader with a source of basic data and analysis on characters, dates, events,...  Read More >>

The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

Author: Neil McKenna
ISBN: 9780099415459
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Deals with Oscar's astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London's sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges...  Read More >>

Dimitry's Shade: A Reading of Alexander Pushkin's """"Boris Godunov

Dimitry's Shade: A Reading of Alexander Pushkin's """"Boris...

Author: J.Douglas Clayton
ISBN: 9780810119383
Format: Hardback
$224.27

This work reads """"Boris Godunov"""" as the expression of Alexander Pushkin's thinking about the Russian state,...  Read More >>

Quintessence of Dust: The Mystical Meaning of Hamlet

Quintessence of Dust: The Mystical Meaning of Hamlet...

Author: Kenneth K. C. Chan
ISBN: 9780595313372
Format: Paperback
$50.03

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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Burton Raffel
ISBN: 9780300104530
Format: Paperback
$18.35

Romeo & Juliet is perhaps the most read and loved of all stage works. Now the most extensively annotated version...  Read More >>

English History in Shakespeare's Plays

English History in Shakespeare's Plays

Author: Beverley E. Warner
ISBN: 9781417944651
Format: Paperback
$81.71

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Notes on Falling Leaves

Notes on Falling Leaves

Author: Ayub Khan Din
ISBN: 9781854598042
Format: Paperback
$50.03

A poignant, elegiac short play from the author of East is East.  Read More >>

Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard

Double Act: A Life of Tom Stoppard

Author: Ira Nadel (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9780413730602
Format: Paperback
$46.99

In this major study, Ira Nadel shows how Tom Stoppard's life imitates his art and vice versa. An authorised biography,...  Read More >>

Roman Tragedy: Theatre to Theatricality

Roman Tragedy: Theatre to Theatricality

Author: Mario Erasmo
ISBN: 9780292722200
Format: Paperback
$41.95

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Understanding King Lear: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

Understanding King Lear: A Student Casebook to Issues,...

Author: Donna C. Woodford
ISBN: 9780313319365
Format: Hardback
$137.15

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Shakespeare and the French Poet

Shakespeare and the French Poet

Author: Yves Bonnefoy ,  John Naughton
ISBN: 9780226064420
Format: Hardback
$158.40

A meditation on the major plays of Shakespeare and the thorny art of literary translation, Shakespeare and the French...  Read More >>

Coriolanus: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume 1

Coriolanus: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, Volume...

Author: David George (Urbana University, USA)
ISBN: 9780826458209
Format: Hardback
$390.00

Volumes in this series trace the course of Shakespeare criticism, play-by-play, from the earliest items of recorded...  Read More >>

Zoe Akins: Broadway Playwright

Zoe Akins: Broadway Playwright

Author: Alan Kreizenbeck
ISBN: 9780313298158
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Zoe Akins was an artist who became successful as a Broadway playwright. It primarily focuses on her Broadway plays,...  Read More >>

Tragedies: Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Hercules on Oeta, Octavia

Tragedies: Oedipus, Agamemnon, Thyestes, Hercules on...

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca ,  John G. Fitch
ISBN: 9780674996106
Format: Hardback
$63.36

This volume completes the Loeb Classical Library's new two volume edition of Seneca's tragedies. This annotated...  Read More >>

Riot and Great Anger: Stage Censorship in Twentieth-century Ireland

Riot and Great Anger: Stage Censorship in Twentieth-century...

Author: Joan Fitzpatrick Dean
ISBN: 9780299196608
Format: Hardback
$118.80

Riot and Great Anger suggests that while there was no state censorship, the theatre often evoked heated responses...  Read More >>

Shakespeare from Stage to Screen

Shakespeare from Stage to Screen

Author: Sarah Hatchuel
ISBN: 9786610540310
Format: Electronic book text
$512.16

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1856–1859

1856–1859

Author: Sabine Henze-Döhring ,  Panja Mücke
ISBN: 9783110180305
Format: Hardback
$530.24

Der kulturelle Wandel im Zuge des Second Empire hatte binnen weniger Jahre auch im Leben Meyerbeers tief greifende...  Read More >>

As You Like It: No Fear Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain English

As You Like It: No Fear Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain...

Author: William Shakespeare ,  SparkNotes
ISBN: 9781411401044
Format: Paperback
$12.99

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of As You Like It on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand...  Read More >>

Henry V: No Fear Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain English

Henry V: No Fear Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain English...

Author: William Shakespeare ,  SparkNotes
ISBN: 9781411401037
Format: Paperback
$12.99

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Henry V on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand...  Read More >>

Richard III: No Fear Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain English

Richard III: No Fear Shakespeare Side-by-Side Plain...

Author: William Shakespeare ,  SparkNotes
ISBN: 9781411401020
Format: Paperback
$12.99

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Richard III on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand...  Read More >>

The Alchemist

The Alchemist

Author: Ben Jonson ,  Elizabeth Cook
ISBN: 9780713671049
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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