Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

Henry IV

Henry IV

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Roma Gill, OBE
ISBN: 9780198320586
Format: Paperback
$13.95

Helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare's plays. Each play in this series has a range of students' notes....  Read More >>

Persons, Roles, and Minds: Identity in Peony Pavilion and Peach Blossom Fan

Persons, Roles, and Minds: Identity in Peony Pavilion...

Author: Tina Lu
ISBN: 9780804742023
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays, Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion and Kong Shangren's Peach Blossom Fan,...  Read More >>

The Temptation of Innocence in the Dramas of Arthur Miller

The Temptation of Innocence in the Dramas of Arthur...

Author: Terry Otten
ISBN: 9780826214065
Format: Hardback
$118.67

This text examines all of Arthur Miller's plays, from his unpublished undergraduate dramas to Mr Peter's Connections...  Read More >>

After Shakespeare

After Shakespeare

Author: John Gross
ISBN: 9780192142689
Format: Hardback
$57.50

After Shakespeare is an anthology, drawing on the literature inspired by Shakespeare from a whole range of other...  Read More >>

Ibsen and Ibsenism in China 1908-1997: A Critical-Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, Translation and Peformance

Ibsen and Ibsenism in China 1908-1997: A Critical-Annotated...

Author: Kwok-kan Tam
ISBN: 9789622019072
Format: Hardback
$59.49

Ibsen has often been considered as the most important source, besides Goethe, of Western influence in modern Chinese...  Read More >>

Some Assembly Required

Some Assembly Required

Author: Eugene Stickland
ISBN: 9781551114996
Format: Paperback
$58.74

This re-issue incorporates a number of small revisions, and includes a new introduction by the author.  Read More >>

Othello

Othello

Author: Lois Potter ,  Jim Bulman
ISBN: 9780719027260
Format: Paperback
$36.99

""Othello"", with its racism, jealousy and sexual stereotyping seems most immediate to contemporary audiences. This...  Read More >>

The Sound of Shakespeare

The Sound of Shakespeare

Author: Wes Folkerth
ISBN: 9780415253772
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume is about the role of sound in Shakespeare's art, about how he heard the world around him, and about...  Read More >>

Othello

Othello

Author: Lois Potter
ISBN: 9780719027253
Format: Hardback
$234.96

""Othello"", with its racism, jealousy and sexual stereotyping seems most immediate to contemporary audiences. This...  Read More >>

Reichsstadt und Schauspiel

Reichsstadt und Schauspiel

Author: Markus Paul
ISBN: 9783484365698
Format: Hardback
$607.17

Im Barockzeitalter zog nach Richard Alewyn ein »bacchantischer Festzug« durch Europa mit pompösen Theater- und Opernspektakeln...  Read More >>

The Sound of Shakespeare

The Sound of Shakespeare

Author: Wes Folkerth
ISBN: 9780415253765
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume is about the role of sound in Shakespeare's art, about how he heard the world around him, and about...  Read More >>

Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy

Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy

Author: J. Michael Walton ,  Marianne McDonald
ISBN: 9780413771421
Format: Hardback
$100.00

This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists, of the past and...  Read More >>

Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called Shakespeare Plays 1887

Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called...

Author: Ignatius Donnelly
ISBN: 9780766126329
Format: Paperback
$108.11

Volume two of a two volume set. (This description is for all volumes.) Contents: The Argument: William Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called Shakesp Eare Plays 1887

Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called...

Author: Ignatius Donnelly
ISBN: 9780766126312
Format: Paperback
$108.11

Volume one of a two volume set. (This description is for all volumes.) Contents: The Argument: William Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism

Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History...

Author: Robert L. McDonald ,  Linda Rohrer Paige
ISBN: 9780817310790
Format: Hardback
$145.20

This collection addresses the neglected state of scholarship on southern women dramatists by bringing together criticism...  Read More >>

Shakespeare: The Christian Teaching Letters and Introduction

Shakespeare: The Christian Teaching Letters and Introduction...

Author: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9781410200563
Format: Paperback
$47.49

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Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization of Mind

Staging Consciousness: Theater and the Materialization...

Author: William W. Demastes
ISBN: 9780472112029
Format: Hardback
$184.80

How theater has challenged the mind/body dualism that underpins much of Western thought  Read More >>

Beth Henley: A Casebook

Beth Henley: A Casebook

Author: Julia A. Fesmire
ISBN: 9780815338789
Format: Hardback
$194.00

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Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of ""Poetics II""

Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of ""Poetics...

Author: Richard Janko
ISBN: 9780715631690
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This edition of ""Tractatus Coislinianus"", a summarised treatise on comedy, purporting to be derived from Aristotle's...  Read More >>

The World Must be Peopled: Shakespeare's Comedies of Forgiveness

The World Must be Peopled: Shakespeare's Comedies of...

Author: Michael D. Friedman
ISBN: 9780838639412
Format: Hardback
$122.76

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Empedocles' Shoe

Empedocles' Shoe

Author: Karen Leeder ,  Tom Kuhn (St Hugh's College, Oxford University, UK)
ISBN: 9780413757302
Format: Hardback
$100.00

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Modern African Drama: A Norton Critical Edition

Modern African Drama: A Norton Critical Edition

Author: Biodun Jeyifo (Cornell University)
ISBN: 9780393975291
Format: Paperback
$47.95

The first truly continentally representative collection of modern African drama in any language, this Norton Critical...  Read More >>

Henry IV (Falstaff): Actors on Shakespeare

Henry IV (Falstaff): Actors on Shakespeare

Author: Simon Callow ,  Colin Nicholson
ISBN: 9780571214068
Format: Paperback
$14.99

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Julius Caesar: Actors on Shakespeare

Julius Caesar: Actors on Shakespeare

Author: Corin Redgrave ,  Colin Nicholson
ISBN: 9780571212408
Format: Paperback
$14.99

Corin Redgrave played Octavius Caesar in 1972 for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Brutus in 1986 at the Young Vic,...  Read More >>

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