Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

For use in schools and libraries only. Background information about Shakespeare, Elizabethan theater, and the text...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's fascination with the Mediterranean formed the theme for this conference. The volume contains the plenary...  Read More >>

This is a tribute to one of the most prominent Shakespeareans in the last half of the twentieth century. It contains...  Read More >>

These 17 essays try, without denying authority to the text and the theatre, to widen the scene of inquiry to include...  Read More >>

This book explores how Shakespeare's plays dramatize the ways in which the struggle with mortality generates intractable...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Studies is an international volume, containing essays and studies by critics and cultural historians...  Read More >>

CONTENTS Preface by Barrett H. Clark Jose Echegaray Chronological List of the Plays of Jose Echegaray The Great...  Read More >>

Shakepeare Imitations is a collection of all-but-forgotten Shakespearean plays, composed between 1710 and 1830....  Read More >>

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The secret of Falstaff's wit is for the most part a masterly presence of mind, an absolute self-possession, which...  Read More >>

We also know that a monument was erected to him in Stratford Church. And because L. Digges, in his lines in the...  Read More >>

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The difficulty referred to at the close of the last chapter is the same as that which those who rarely go to a theatre...  Read More >>

About one hour before noontide the youth WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, accused of deer-stealing, and apprehended for that...  Read More >>

Hero. Good Margaret runne thee to the parlour, There shalt thou finde my Cosin Beatrice, Proposing with the Prince...  Read More >>

What mankind have long possessed they have often examined and compared, and if they persist to va- lue the possession,...  Read More >>

Bacon intended to prove that the plays attributed to William Shakespeare were written by a coterie of men, including...  Read More >>

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An anthropological study of play-acting. Kirsten Hastrup aims at a renewed understanding of action and motivation...  Read More >>

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This edition of the manuscripts of ""Deirdre"" presents the transcription of work from three substantially different...  Read More >>

A remarkable work that recovers the songs Shakespeare's audiences actually heard and brings them to life through...  Read More >>

The best known - and longest - of Harley Granville Barker's celebrated Prefaces to Shakespeare: some of the best...  Read More >>

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