Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

Henry V

Henry V

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Roma Gill, OBE
ISBN: 9780198320333
Format: Paperback
$13.95

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Sophocles: Electra

Sophocles: Electra

Author: Jennifer R. March ,  Jennifer R. March
ISBN: 9780856685750
Format: Hardback
$211.20

In SophoclesÆ hands the focus of the play is on Electra herself: her endurance and loyalty to the dead Agamemnon...  Read More >>

Minstrels Playing: Music in Early English Religious Drama II

Minstrels Playing: Music in Early English Religious...

Author: Richard Rastall
ISBN: 9780859915854
Format: Hardback
$316.80

MEDIUM AEVUM says of Heaven Singing, the general discussion of the subject from which the present volume follows...  Read More >>

Modern Spanish Dramatists: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook

Modern Spanish Dramatists: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook...

Author: Mary Parker
ISBN: 9780313305788
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Since its Golden Age, Spanish drama has evolved in considerably unintended and unexpected ways with the contemporary...  Read More >>

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Play

Antony and Cleopatra: A Guide to the Play

Author: Joan L. Hall
ISBN: 9780313311574
Format: Hardback
$100.00

In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes the classical love story of the Roman general and the Egyptian queen,...  Read More >>

Of Philosophers and Kings: Political Philosophy in Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"" and ""King Lear""

Of Philosophers and Kings: Political Philosophy in Shakespeare's...

Author: Leon Harold Craig
ISBN: 9780802035714
Format: Hardback
$221.76

This innovative work argues that Shakespeare was as great a philosopher as he was a poet, and that his greatness...  Read More >>

Theater, Culture, and Community in Reformation Bern, 1523-1555

Theater, Culture, and Community in Reformation Bern,...

Author: Glenn Ehrstine
ISBN: 9789004123533
Format: Hardback
$388.08

This study examines the sociocultural context of Bern’s ten Reformation plays, authored by Niklaus Manuel and Hans...  Read More >>

Women and Race in Early Modern Texts

Women and Race in Early Modern Texts

Author: Joyce Green MacDonald (University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9781280163340
Format: Undefined
$330.00

Joyce Green MacDonald discusses the links between women's racial, sexual, and civic identities in early modern texts....  Read More >>

Alternative Shakespeares

Alternative Shakespeares

Author: John Drakakis (University of Stirling, UK)
ISBN: 9781280075346
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical...  Read More >>

Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage: From Shakespeare to Webster

Spatial Representations and the Jacobean Stage: From...

Author: Russell West, Professor
ISBN: 9781280220142
Format: Electronic book text
$396.00

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Shakespeare: Three Problem Plays

Shakespeare: Three Problem Plays

Author: Nicholas Marsh
ISBN: 9781280220135
Format: Electronic book text
$263.87

Focussing on All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida, Nicholas Marsh uses close...  Read More >>

Theory/Theatre: An Introduction

Theory/Theatre: An Introduction

Author: Author Mark Fortier (University of Guelph)
ISBN: 9781280111204
Format: Electronic book text
$316.80

A unique and engaging introduction to literary theory as it relates to theatre and performance. Fortier lucidly...  Read More >>

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama

Author: Keir Elam
ISBN: 9781280074943
Format: Electronic book text
$290.40

This study, the first of its kind in English, traces the history of semiotic approaches to performance, from the...  Read More >>

Cliffsnotes on Shakespeare?s Othello

Cliffsnotes on Shakespeare?s Othello

Author: Gary K Carey, M.A. ,  Helen McCulloch
ISBN: 9781299909908
Format: Electronic book text
$15.81

Betrayal and manipulation lie at the heart of Othello. Keep up with all the crosses and double-crosses of this...  Read More >>

Shame in Shakespeare

Shame in Shakespeare

Author: Ewan Fernie (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9780415258289
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This title explores the meaning of the humiliation that Shakepearean heroes suffer by looking at aspects including:...  Read More >>

Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre

Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre

Author: Franc Chamberlain (University College, Cork, Ireland) ,  Ralph Yarrow
ISBN: 9780415270250
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This title brings together a collection of essays that focus on Lecoq's school of mime and physical theatre.  Read More >>

Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia

Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov...

Author: Laurence Kelly
ISBN: 9781860646669
Format: Hardback
$179.52

In this biography of Alexander Griboyedov, Laurence Kelly paints a vivid picture of his remarkable literary and...  Read More >>

The Importance of Being Earnest Paper Dolls

The Importance of Being Earnest Paper Dolls

Author: Brenda Sneathen Mattox
ISBN: 9780486419411
Format: Paperback
$15.71

Nine figures and 30 period costumes pay tribute to Wilde's comic masterpiece. Inspired by the cast and plot of the...  Read More >>

Shame in Shakespeare

Shame in Shakespeare

Author: Ewan Fernie (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9780415258272
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This title explores the meaning of the humiliation that Shakepearean heroes suffer by looking at aspects including:...  Read More >>

Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre

Jacques Lecoq and the British Theatre

Author: Franc Chamberlain (University College, Cork, Ireland) ,  Ralph Yarrow
ISBN: 9780415270243
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This title brings together a collection of essays that focus on Lecoq's school of mime and physical theatre.  Read More >>

An Anthology of Renaissance Plays in Translation: Works from the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Traditions

An Anthology of Renaissance Plays in Translation: Works...

Author: Raymond Conlon
ISBN: 9780773469051
Format: Hardback
$369.47

This title is a selection of Renaissance Italian, Spanish and Portuguese plays in translation, each accompanied...  Read More >>

""The ""The Merchant of Venice""

""The ""The Merchant of Venice""

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Miriam Gilbert
ISBN: 9781903436134
Format: Paperback
$79.17

The ""Shakespeare at Stratford"" series discusses and analyses the wide range of theatrical interpretation stimulated...  Read More >>

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