Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Oxford Shakespeare: Pericles

The Oxford Shakespeare: Pericles
Author: William Shakespeare , Roger Warren (, Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare ^ICymbeline^R and ^I2 Henry VI^R, and co-editor of ^ITwelfth Night^R with Stanley Wells) ISBN: 9780198129325 Format: Hardback	$380.00
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Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium

Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the...
Author: Edith Hall (Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham and Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford) , Fiona Macintosh (Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780199259144 Format: Hardback	$408.00
Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This lavishly... Read More >>

London Assurance

London Assurance
Author: Dion Boucicault , James L. Smith ISBN: 9780713626094 Format: Paperback	$24.99
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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: 9780472113682 Format: Hardback	$198.00
An indispensable guide to the dramatic work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights Read More >>

Strindberg's Secret Codes

Strindberg's Secret Codes
Author: Freddie Rokem ISBN: 9781870041553 Format: Paperback	$108.11
These original and searching essays seek to uncover the hidden secrets of Strindberg's codes as a writer. They include... Read More >>

The Violet Hour

The Violet Hour
Author: Richard Greenberg ISBN: 9780571211845 Format: Paperback	$42.24
In this new play by the Tony Award-winning playwright of Take Me Out, a fledgling (and upper-class) World War I-era... Read More >>

Die Anfänge Des Weltlichen Deutschen Schauspiels 1370-1530: Untersuchung Und Dokumentation

Die Anfänge Des Weltlichen Deutschen Schauspiels 1370-1530:...
Author: Eckehard Simon ISBN: 9783484891241 Format: Hardback	$419.73
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Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas
Author: Chris Wigginton ISBN: 9780746309971 Format: Paperback	$43.96
A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce... Read More >>

Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval and Shakespeare

Allegory and the Work of Melancholy: The Late Medieval...
Author: Jeremy Tambling ISBN: 9789042010185 Format: Paperback	$234.96
Written using critical theory, especially by Walter Benjamin, Blanchot and Derrida, Allegory and the Work of Melancholy:... Read More >>

Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas
Author: Chris Wigginton ISBN: 9780746311097 Format: Hardback	$142.31
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The Towneley Plays: Volume II: Notes and Glossary

The Towneley Plays: Volume II: Notes and Glossary
Author: Martin Stevens , A.C. Cawley ISBN: 9780197224144 Format: Hardback	$90.56
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Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays: A Comparative Study of the English Biblical Cycles and their Continental and Iconographic Counterparts

Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays: A Comparative...
Author: Peter Happé ISBN: 9789042016521 Format: Hardback	$374.88
Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays is centred upon the five extant English mystery cycles with a view to... Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater

Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater
Author: Eladio Cortes , Mirta Barrea-Marlys ISBN: 9780313290411 Format: Hardback	$382.80
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Rupture, Representation, and the Refashioning of Identity in Drama from the North of Ireland, 1969-1994

Rupture, Representation, and the Refashioning of Identity...
Author: Bernard McKenna ISBN: 9780313320293 Format: Hardback	$131.00
The North of Ireland has long been plagued by violent conflict, and dramatic works from that region often reflect... Read More >>

Color Struck Under the Gaze: Ethnicity and the Pathology of Being in the Plays of Johnson, Hurston, Childress, Hansberry, and Kennedy

Color Struck Under the Gaze: Ethnicity and the Pathology...
Author: Martha G. Bower ISBN: 9780313322280 Format: Hardback	$103.00
Using a psychoanalytic approach, the author assesses the consequences of judging persons of color by an impure gaze... Read More >>

Hamlet

Hamlet
Author: Harold Bloom ISBN: 9780791076699 Format: Hardback	$80.30
Presents a selection of criticism on Shakespeare's best known protagonist by such authors as Harold C. Goddard,... Read More >>

Searching Shakespeare: Studies in Culture and Authority

Searching Shakespeare: Studies in Culture and Authority...
Author: Derek Cohen ISBN: 9780802087782 Format: Hardback	$135.00
Shakespeare's plays, Cohen argues, consistently portray the clash between the passionate search for individuality... Read More >>

Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett

Sails of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett
Author: Herbert Blau ISBN: 9780472030019 Format: Paperback	$68.51
Reflections on Samuel Beckett by renowned director and theorist Herbert Blau Read More >>

The Hero and the City: An Interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus

The Hero and the City: An Interpretation of Sophocles'...
Author: Joseph P. Wilson ISBN: 9780472086887 Format: Paperback	$68.51
Challenges many of the traditional views concerning Oedipus at Colonus Read More >>

Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics, 1915-48

Susan Glaspell in Context: American Theater, Culture,...
Author: J. Ellen Gainor ISBN: 9780472030101 Format: Paperback	$85.80
The first in-depth examination of the theatrical achievements of this acclaimed playwright Read More >>

Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman
Author: Harold Bloom ISBN: 9780791075647 Format: Hardback	$79.20
- Comprehensive reading and study guides for some of the world's most important literary masterpieces - Concise... Read More >>

Seneca: ""Thyestes""

Seneca: ""Thyestes""
Author: P.J. Davis ISBN: 9780715632222 Format: Paperback	$68.64
Written in Nero's Rome in about AD62, ""Thyestes"" is one of the greatest and most influential of classical tragedies.... Read More >>

Sophocles: ""Ajax""

Sophocles: ""Ajax""
Author: Jon Hesk ISBN: 9780715630471 Format: Paperback	$68.64
Sophocles' ""Ajax"" is one of the most disturbing and powerful surviving ancient tragedies. But it is also difficult... Read More >>

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: A Routledge...
Author: S.P. Cerasano (Colgate University, New York, USA) ISBN: 9780415240529 Format: Paperback	$46.99
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William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice: A Routledge...
Author: S.P. Cerasano (Colgate University, New York, USA) ISBN: 9780415240512 Format: Hardback	$189.00
This student friendly book draws together text, context, criticism and performance history to provide an integrated... Read More >>

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