Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

Shakespeare's Arguments with History

Shakespeare's Arguments with History

Author: R. Knowles
ISBN: 9780333970218
Format: Hardback
$369.60

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Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

Author: Harold Bloom
ISBN: 9780791063590
Format: Hardback
$63.80

A collection of fourteen critical essays on the works of the English dramatist and poet arranged in chronological...  Read More >>

Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and Praxis

Rhetoric and Kairos: Essays in History, Theory, and...

Author: Phillip Sipiora ,  James S. Baumlin
ISBN: 9780791452349
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and practice of kairos: that is of the role ""timeliness""...  Read More >>

Pragmalinguistische Aspekte des dramatischen Dialogs: Dialoganalytische Untersuchungen zu Gottscheds ""Sterbender Cato"", Lessings ""Emilia Galotti"" und Schillers ""Die Raeuber""

Pragmalinguistische Aspekte des dramatischen Dialogs:...

Author: Eckhard Hauenherm
ISBN: 9783631389850
Format: Paperback
$160.17

Anhand der Analyse dreier Dramen des 18. Jahrhunderts, Gottscheds Sterbender Cato, Lessings Emilia Galotti und Schillers...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Neighbors: Theory Matters in the Bard and His Contemporaries

Shakespeare's Neighbors: Theory Matters in the Bard...

Author: Rocco Coronato
ISBN: 9780761821458
Format: Hardback
$129.95

Shakespeare's Neighbors focuses on what lay next door to Shakespeare- the theoretical context that, while partially...  Read More >>

Beckett's Eighteenth Century

Beckett's Eighteenth Century

Author: F. Smith
ISBN: 9780333925393
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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Beckett and Philosophy

Beckett and Philosophy

Author: R. Lane
ISBN: 9780333918791
Format: Hardback
$116.41

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Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O'Casey, Beckett

Tragedy and Irish Literature: Synge, O'Casey, Beckett...

Author: R. McDonald
ISBN: 9780333923931
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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Taming of the Shrew: Reference Guide

Taming of the Shrew: Reference Guide

Author: BarCharts, Inc.
ISBN: 9781572226500
Format: Book
$13.07

Topics covered include: social structure & culture, formal organizations, socialization & deviance, basic concepts...  Read More >>

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach

Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach...

Author: Patrick Tucker
ISBN: 9780878300952
Format: Paperback
$97.55

Patrick Tucker finds the key to acting Shakespeare in a rediscovered method, and the results are revolutionary....  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: 9780472106509
Format: Hardback
$211.20

The first in-depth examination of the theatrical achievements of this acclaimed playwright  Read More >>

Je me souviens

Je me souviens

Author: Lorena Gale
ISBN: 9780889224537
Format: Paperback
$42.11

This powerful dramatic monologue reconstructs Lorena Gale's coming of age as an African Canadian in Montreal. Cast...  Read More >>

Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two- Headed Calf

Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two-...

Author: Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz ,  Daniel Gerould
ISBN: 9780415275064
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume contains two of Witkacy's ""tropical"" plays inspired by the playwright's trip to Ceylon and Australia...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Theories of Blood, Character, and Class: A Festschrift in Honor of David Shelley Berkeley

Shakespeare's Theories of Blood, Character, and Class:...

Author: Peter C. Rollins ,  Alan Smith
ISBN: 9780820445182
Format: Hardback
$274.56

Shakespeare's Theories of Blood, Character, and Class is a collection of essays that explores the works of Shakespeare...  Read More >>

The Libretto as Literature: Doktor Faust by Ferruccio Busoni

The Libretto as Literature: Doktor Faust by Ferruccio...

Author: Nancy O. Chamness
ISBN: 9780820440774
Format: Hardback
$267.56

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The Wilde Years: Oscar Wilde and His Times

The Wilde Years: Oscar Wilde and His Times

Author: Tomoko Sato ,  Lionel Lambourne
ISBN: 9780856675263
Format: Hardback
$166.32

This study of Oscar Wilde portrays him as the central figure linking the artistic cities of London and Paris in...  Read More >>

Spectator at the Theatre: A Decade of First Nights

Spectator at the Theatre: A Decade of First Nights

Author: Sheridan Morley
ISBN: 9781840022476
Format: Paperback
$100.19

In this collection of his Spectator reviews, written in London and New York, Sheridan Morley looks back on the...  Read More >>

Stages and Playgoers: From Guild Plays to Shakespeare

Stages and Playgoers: From Guild Plays to Shakespeare...

Author: Janet Hill ,  Janet Hill
ISBN: 9780773522732
Format: Hardback
$250.80

A discussion of the long, vital tradition of dialogue between stage and audience from mediaeval, through Tudor,...  Read More >>

The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition

The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination...

Author: Craig S. Walker ,  Craig S. Walker
ISBN: 9780773520752
Format: Paperback
$86.99

An analysis of Canadian dramatic writing.  Read More >>

Shaw and His Contemporaries: Theatre Essays

Shaw and His Contemporaries: Theatre Essays

Author: Ronald Bryden ,  Denis W. Johnston
ISBN: 9780889627918
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni

Playing with Gender: The Comedies of Goldoni

Author: Maggie Gunsberg
ISBN: 9781902653242
Format: Paperback
$112.00

This work takes gender as its point of entry into the comedies of Carlo Goldoni (1707-93). The dramatization of...  Read More >>

Stoppard's Theatre: Finding Order Amid Chaos

Stoppard's Theatre: Finding Order Amid Chaos

Author: John Fleming
ISBN: 9780292725522
Format: Paperback
$52.95

With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and commercially successful plays, from ""Rosencrantz...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett's Self-Referential Drama: The Sensitive Chaos, 2nd Edition

Samuel Beckett's Self-Referential Drama: The Sensitive...

Author: Shimon Levy
ISBN: 9781902210544
Format: Hardback
$171.60

An exploration of Samuel Beckett's drama, using the criteria that ensue from the works themselves, with particular...  Read More >>

Macbeth: Reference Guide

Macbeth: Reference Guide

Author: BarCharts, Inc.
ISBN: 9781572226302
Format: Book
$13.07

This concise breakdown of Shakespeare's play is laminated in an easy to understand format ideal for students or...  Read More >>

The ""Trojan Women""and Other Plays

The ""Trojan Women""and Other Plays

Author: Euripides ,  Edith Hall
ISBN: 9780192839879
Format: Paperback
$16.95

This is the third volume of Euripides plays in new translation. It contains the three great war plays Trojan Women,...  Read More >>

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