Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Alchemist

The Alchemist

Author: Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, USA) ,  Tanya Pollard
ISBN: 9781472532596
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination...  Read More >>

Love Poetry and Criticism: Ovid, Shakespeare and Donne (Volume 2)

Love Poetry and Criticism: Ovid, Shakespeare and Donne...

Author: Ophelia Francois
ISBN: 9781647284701
Format: Hardback
$451.44

Ovid, William Shakespeare and John Donne are among the most prominent names within the European literary canon....  Read More >>

Love Poetry and Criticism: Ovid, Shakespeare and Donne (Volume 1)

Love Poetry and Criticism: Ovid, Shakespeare and Donne...

Author: Ophelia Francois
ISBN: 9781647284695
Format: Hardback
$403.92

Ovid, William Shakespeare and John Donne are among the most prominent names within the European literary canon....  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Digital Performance in Practice

Shakespeare and Digital Performance in Practice

Author: Erin Sullivan
ISBN: 9783031057656
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Shakespeare and Digital Performance in Practice explores the impact of digital technologies on the theatrical performance...  Read More >>

Shakespeare on Prejudice: 'Scorns and Mislike' in Shakespeare's Plays

Shakespeare on Prejudice: 'Scorns and Mislike' in Shakespeare's...

Author: Professor B. J. Sokol (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350296145
Format: Paperback
$59.99

How are unwarranted dislikes and prejudices portrayed in the works of Shakespeare and to what extent does Shakespeare...  Read More >>

The Vespers: 100 Monologues for Everyone

The Vespers: 100 Monologues for Everyone

Author: Philip Ridley
ISBN: 9781350181656
Format: Paperback
$39.99

""100 self-contained original monologues for actors of all ages and genders, written by one of Britain's most celebrated...  Read More >>

Nae Expectations

Nae Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens ,  Gary McNair (Author)
ISBN: 9781350456921
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Gary McNair's fresh look at the Dickens classic, with a Glasgow tongue and a gallus spirit.  Read More >>

Jokes in Greek Comedy: From Puns to Poetics

Jokes in Greek Comedy: From Puns to Poetics

Author: Dr Naomi Scott (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9781350248489
Format: Hardback
$170.00

""In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever 'just a joke'. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve,...  Read More >>

Trueman and the Arsonists

Trueman and the Arsonists

Author: Simon Stephens (Author) ,  Max Frisch
ISBN: 9781350446410
Format: Paperback
$23.99

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Time and Poetic Speech: A Philosophical Investigation

Time and Poetic Speech: A Philosophical Investigation...

Author: Kwok Kui Wong
ISBN: 9783031124570
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This book analyzes the relation between the flow time and poetic speech in drama and rhetoric. It uses examples...  Read More >>

Kabi Damodara Rachana Sambhara

Kabi Damodara Rachana Sambhara

Author: Damodara Mohapatra ,  Debasis Mohapatra
ISBN: 9781645604488
Format: Paperback
$52.80

ସୂଚିପତ୍ର ====== କବି ଦାମୋଦର ମହାପାତ୍ର ସିଦ୍ଧି ଓ ସାଧନା- ଦେବାଶିଷ ମହାପାତ୍ର ୨୯ ୧. ନାଟ୍ୟ ସ୍ତବକ ========= ରାଜା ହରିଶ୍ଚନ୍ଦ୍ର...  Read More >>

Portrayals of Masculinity in Nigerian Plays

Portrayals of Masculinity in Nigerian Plays

Author: Beatrice Nwawuloke Onuoha
ISBN: 9781666935035
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Portrayals of Masculinity in Nigerian Plays explores Nigerian people's notions of masculinity as portrayed in twelve...  Read More >>

Flight Risk

Flight Risk

Author: Meg Braem ,  Samantha Macdonald
ISBN: 9781773854724
Format: Paperback
$51.70

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Flight Risk

Flight Risk

Author: Meg Braem ,  Samantha Macdonald
ISBN: 9781773854717
Format: Hardback
$69.30

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The Promised End: Endings in Shakespeare's tragedies

The Promised End: Endings in Shakespeare's tragedies...

Author: Peter Mercer
ISBN: 9781528954365
Format: Paperback
$23.26

The Promised End explores how the endings of Shakespeare’s tragedies work – how, in effect, they resist conventional...  Read More >>

The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630

The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and...

Author: Katrin Ettenhuber (Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Pembroke College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780198881186
Format: Hardback
$183.95

This book charts for the first time the deep relationship between Renaissance literature and logic. Ettenhuber shows...  Read More >>

Pauline Style and Renaissance Literary Culture

Pauline Style and Renaissance Literary Culture

Author: Daniel Knapper (Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Adjunct Professor of English, Calvin University)
ISBN: 9780198879794
Format: Hardback
$183.95

Daniel Knapper provides the first critical history of Saint Paul's rhetorical style in the Renaissance. The book...  Read More >>

Hamnet

Hamnet

Author: Maggie O'Farrell ,  Lolita Chakrabarti
ISBN: 9781350455498
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Based on Maggie O'Farrell's award-winning novel of the same name, and adapted by the Olivier-award winning Lolita...  Read More >>

A Topsy-Turvy World: Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties

A Topsy-Turvy World: Short Plays and Farces from the...

Author: Wilt Idema (Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University) ,  Wai-yee Li (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780231208970
Format: Paperback
$74.95

A Topsy-Turvy World presents English translations of shorter late Ming and early Qing plays. Satirical and often...  Read More >>

Theater and Politics in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives

Theater and Politics in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives

Author: Raphaëla Dubreuil
ISBN: 9789004681736
Format: Hardback
$377.52

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Manic Street Creature

Manic Street Creature

Author: Maimuna Memon
ISBN: 9781350457485
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale

Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s...

Author: Martina Zamparo
ISBN: 9783031051692
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays,...  Read More >>

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