Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Queer Shakespeare: Desire, Sexuality and Embodiment

Queer Shakespeare: Desire, Sexuality and Embodiment...

Author: Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary’s University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350527485
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, this second edition...  Read More >>

Australian One-Act Plays for Young Adults

Australian One-Act Plays for Young Adults

Author: Brady Lloyd (Teacher in Adelaide, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350588738
Format: Hardback
$130.00

Five universal stories that celebrate the strength of the human spirit, blending hope, humour and heart.  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

Author: Rhodri Lewis
ISBN: 9780691246703
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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Relics

Relics

Author: Ben Ockrent
ISBN: 9781350618428
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A darkly comic family drama about the legacies we inherit, the choices we make, and the heart-breaking compromise...  Read More >>

The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 3

The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare...

Author: Katherine Gillen ,  Adrianna M. Santos
ISBN: 9780866988926
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The third volume in the anthology, featuring a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands...  Read More >>

The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 3

The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare...

Author: Katherine Gillen ,  Adrianna M. Santos
ISBN: 9780866988919
Format: Hardback
$237.47

The third volume in the anthology, featuring a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands...  Read More >>

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist Culture in Early Modern England

Houses of Correction: Carceral Institutions and Humanist...

Author: Matthew Ritger
ISBN: 9781512828993
Format: Hardback
$150.00

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

Activating Hamlet

Activating Hamlet

Author: Eddie Burton
ISBN: 9781032964270
Format: Hardback
$144.87

This book tells a new story about Hamlet, exposing its key philosophical concerns are also significant factors in...  Read More >>

Lanford Wilson: Early Stories, Sketches, and Poems

Lanford Wilson: Early Stories, Sketches, and Poems

Author: David Crespy
ISBN: 9780826223517
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Before Lanford Wilson became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright he wrote dozens of short stories and poems, many...  Read More >>

The Embattled Academy: Staging the Culture Wars in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Drama

The Embattled Academy: Staging the Culture Wars in Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Heath A. Diehl
ISBN: 9781032846811
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book examines U.S. drama's role in the Culture Wars through academic plays like Oleanna and God Kinda Looks...  Read More >>

Ibsen Apocalypse: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller's Six-Hundred-Year Mission to Raise the Ghosts of Modernity

Ibsen Apocalypse: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller's Six-Hundred-Year...

Author: Andrew Friedman ,  Andrew Lane Friedman
ISBN: 9798899480225
Format: Paperback
$95.04

Ibsen Apocalypse historicizes the twenty-first century's most audacious theater work to trace the legacies of modernism's...  Read More >>

Medieval English Theatre 47

Medieval English Theatre 47

Author: Sarah Carpenter ,  Elisabeth Dutton
ISBN: 9781843848011
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Newest research into drama and performance from the Middle Ages and the Tudor period.  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Author: Marissa Nicosia
ISBN: 9781032043951
Format: Paperback
$87.95

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils...  Read More >>

The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre After 1660

The Burlesque Tradition in the English Theatre After...

Author: V. C. Clinton-Baddeley
ISBN: 9781041300304
Format: Hardback
$191.45

Originally published in 1952 this book assembles what the author called ‘the basic jokes’ of theatrical burlesque....  Read More >>

English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans: Its Background, Origins and Developments

English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans:...

Author: A.P. Rossiter
ISBN: 9781041314837
Format: Hardback
$388.12

First published in 1950, English Drama from Early Times to the Elizabethans is a detailed examination of representative...  Read More >>

Othello

Othello

Author: Paul Sugarman
ISBN: 9781493057061
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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The Tempest

The Tempest

Author: Paul Sugarman
ISBN: 9781493057108
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Author: Paul Sugarman
ISBN: 9781493057023
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Ibsen Apocalypse: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller's Six-Hundred-Year Mission to Raise the Ghosts of Modernity

Ibsen Apocalypse: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller's Six-Hundred-Year...

Author: Andrew Friedman ,  Andrew Lane Friedman
ISBN: 9798899480232
Format: Hardback
$316.80

Ibsen Apocalypse historicizes the twenty-first century's most audacious theater work to trace the legacies of modernism's...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Shakespeare in the Kitchen

Author: Marissa Nicosia
ISBN: 9781032043999
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Audiences and scholars alike have long remarked that Shakespeare’s poems and plays record the pleasures and perils...  Read More >>

The dreadful name of Henry Hills: The lives and afterlives of a seventeenth-century printer

The dreadful name of Henry Hills: The lives and afterlives...

Author: Michael Durrant
ISBN: 9781526129390
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This compelling book offers a fresh and insightful contribution to the interrelated fields of book history and literary...  Read More >>

Race / Queer / Queens

Race / Queer / Queens

Author: Mira ‘Assaf ,  Urvashi Chakravarty
ISBN: 9780866988964
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This expansive volume examines the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and other formations of identity in...  Read More >>

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955

Author: Stephen O'Neill
ISBN: 9781836244813
Format: Hardback
$310.50

Irish Culture and Partition, 1920–1955 is the first study of the impact of partition on the culture of Ireland....  Read More >>

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