Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

The Knight of the Burning Pestle

The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Author: Francis Beaumont ,  Michael Hattaway (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9780713650693
Format: Paperback
$19.99

This title is part of the New Mermaid series of modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of English plays. Each...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism

Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism

Author: Ania Loomba (, Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9780198711759
Format: Hardback
$91.95

Examining the depiction of cultural, religious, and ethnic difference in Shakespeare's plays, Ania Loomba considers...  Read More >>

More Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Men

More Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Men

Author: Simon Dunmore
ISBN: 9780713663211
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Lectures on Shakespeare

Lectures on Shakespeare

Author: W. H. Auden ,  Arthur C. Kirsch
ISBN: 9780691102825
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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A. Reconsidering Shakespeare

A. Reconsidering Shakespeare

Author: Terrence Hawkes
ISBN: 9780415300179
Format: Mixed media product
$510.00

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Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event

Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event

Author: John Russell Brown
ISBN: 9780333801321
Format: Paperback
$102.96

In his latest book, John Russell Brown sets out the grounds for a new and revealing way of studying Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Andria

Andria

Author: Terence ,  G. P. Shipp
ISBN: 9781853996405
Format: Paperback
$84.48

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Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event

Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event

Author: John Russell Brown
ISBN: 9780333801314
Format: Hardback
$316.80

In his latest book, John Russell Brown sets out the grounds for a new and revealing way of studying Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the New Historical Fiction

Constructing a World: Shakespeare's England and the...

Author: Martha Tuck Rozett
ISBN: 9780791455524
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Examines recent developments in historical fiction, with particular attention to the way contemporary writers have...  Read More >>

A Theatergoer's Guide to Shakespeare's Themes

A Theatergoer's Guide to Shakespeare's Themes

Author: Robert Fallon
ISBN: 9781566634571
Format: Hardback
$40.95

An examination of the themes in Shakespeare's plays, following on from Robert Fallon's ""Theatergoer's Guide to...  Read More >>

The Authentic Shakespeare: and Other Problems of the Early Modern Stage

The Authentic Shakespeare: and Other Problems of the...

Author: Stephen Orgel
ISBN: 9780415912136
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Beautifully illustrated, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that...  Read More >>

Coleridge's Idea of Wordsworth as Philosopher Poet

Coleridge's Idea of Wordsworth as Philosopher Poet

Author: David D. Joplin
ISBN: 9780773470637
Format: Hardback
$290.27

"This study focuses on Coleridge's philosophical ideas about nature in works such as ""Biographia Literaria"", ""The...  Read More >>

Widows, Pariahs and Bayaderes: India as Spectacle

Widows, Pariahs and Bayaderes: India as Spectacle

Author: Binita Mehta
ISBN: 9780838754559
Format: Hardback
$115.14

This book analyzes how French dramatists reproduced certain images of India such as the burning widow, the lowly...  Read More >>

The Witlings and The Woman-Hater

The Witlings and The Woman-Hater

Author: Frances Burney ,  Peter Sabor
ISBN: 9781551113784
Format: Paperback
$60.59

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Grinning At The Edge: A Biography of Alan Ayckbourn

Grinning At The Edge: A Biography of Alan Ayckbourn...

Author: Paul Allen
ISBN: 9780413771360
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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The Dark Side of Shakespeare: An Iron-Fisted Romantic in England's Most Perilous Times: Volume I of III

The Dark Side of Shakespeare: An Iron-Fisted Romantic...

Author: W Ron Hess
ISBN: 9780595247776
Format: Paperback
$92.27

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Speak the Speech!: Shakespeare's Monologues Illuminated

Speak the Speech!: Shakespeare's Monologues Illuminated...

Author: Rhona Silverbush ,  Sami Plotkin
ISBN: 9780571211227
Format: Paperback
$59.95

The most comprehensive sourcebook of Shakespeare's monologues ever available in one volume. A detailed guide to...  Read More >>

Hamlet in Purgatory

Hamlet in Purgatory

Author: Stephen Greenblatt
ISBN: 9780691102573
Format: Paperback
$68.51

With the doctrine of Purgatory and the elaborate practices that grew up around it, the church had provided a powerful...  Read More >>

Operette als Moraltheater

Operette als Moraltheater

Author: Ralph-Günther Patocka
ISBN: 9783484660397
Format: Hardback
$406.56

Obwohl die Forschung Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) für sich neu entdeckt hat, wird sein Theater primär durch die...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy in Action

Greek Tragedy in Action

Author: Oliver Taplin
ISBN: 9780415302517
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book attempts to reinstate the works of Greek Tragedy as plays rather than just texts to be read. Taplin concentrates...  Read More >>

Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays

Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays

Author: Daniel Mendelsohn
ISBN: 9786611930417
Format: Electronic book text
$400.91

Presenting a study of Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women , this book uses different insights into the Greek...  Read More >>

English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology

English Renaissance Drama: A Norton Anthology

Author: David Bevington (University of Chicago) ,  Lars Engle (University of Tulsa)
ISBN: 9780393976557
Format: Hardback
$175.95

The most extensive new collection in this field published in more than three decades, English Renaissance Drama:...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems

An Introduction to Shakespeare's Poems

Author: Peter Hyland
ISBN: 9786610860081
Format: Electronic book text
$660.00

This title provides a lively and informed examination of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry: the narrative poems...  Read More >>

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism of William Shakespeare's Plays & Poetry, from the First Published Appraisals to Current Evaluations

Shakespearean Criticism: Excerpts from the Criticism...

Author: Lynn M Zott ,  Lynn Zott
ISBN: 9780787659981
Format: Hardback
$823.68

The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: < ul>< i>< li> As You Like It< li> Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2< li>...  Read More >>

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