Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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A Reexamination of Tragedy and Madness in Eight Selected Plays, from the Greeks to the 20th Century

A Reexamination of Tragedy and Madness in Eight Selected...

Author: Gregory J. Reid (University of Montreal, Canada)
ISBN: 9780773471788
Format: Hardback
$290.27

This study links classic tragedy and the modern period through the concept of madness, which has been an extensive...  Read More >>

Hamlet: Critical Essays

Hamlet: Critical Essays

Author: Arthur F. Kinney
ISBN: 9780415410984
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the...  Read More >>

Hamlet: Critical Essays

Hamlet: Critical Essays

Author: Arthur F. Kinney
ISBN: 9780815338765
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the...  Read More >>

The Athenian Sun in an African Sky: Modern African Adaptations of Classical Greek Tragedy

The Athenian Sun in an African Sky: Modern African Adaptations...

Author: Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
ISBN: 9780786410934
Format: Paperback
$60.50

Kevin Wetmore's study focuses on African American adaptations of classical Greek tragedy. The author concentrates...  Read More >>

Shakespearean Characterization: A Guide for Actors and Students

Shakespearean Characterization: A Guide for Actors and...

Author: Leslie O'Dell
ISBN: 9786610708277
Format: Electronic book text
$580.54

Provides practical advice for the modern actor on how to portray Shakespeare's characters.  Read More >>

Performing Brecht

Performing Brecht

Author: Margaret Eddershaw
ISBN: 9781280329234
Format: Electronic book text
$356.40

Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over the last forty...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere?

Shakespeare in Canada: A World Elsewhere?

Author: Diana Brydon ,  Irena R Makaryk
ISBN: 9781282022799
Format: Electronic book text
$231.26

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Literaturverzeichnis 2001

Literaturverzeichnis 2001

Author: Reinhart Meyer
ISBN: 9783484990487
Format: Paperback
$248.13

This annotated bibliography of dramas of the 18th century covers all dramas performed and/or published between 1700...  Read More >>

Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques

Ben Jonson's Plays and Masques

Author: Ben Jonson ,  Richard L. Harp (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
ISBN: 9780393976380
Format: Paperback
$60.06

This collection features three of Jonson's masterpieces: Volpone, Epicoene, and The Alchemist.  Read More >>

1750-1752

1750-1752

Author: Reinhart Meyer
ISBN: 9783484107847
Format: Hardback
$686.40

This annotated bibliography of dramas of the 18th century covers all dramas performed and/or published between 1700...  Read More >>

A Companion to Restoration Drama

A Companion to Restoration Drama

Author: Susan J. Owen (University of Sheffield)
ISBN: 9780631219231
Format: Hardback
$373.95

Illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work between 1660 and 1710. This book examines well known genres...  Read More >>

Visual Shakespeare: Essays in Film and Television

Visual Shakespeare: Essays in Film and Television

Author: Graham Holderness
ISBN: 9781902806136
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof

Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof

Author: Stephen M. Buhler
ISBN: 9780791451403
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Rethinking Peter Weiss

Rethinking Peter Weiss

Author: Jost Hermand ,  Marc Silberman
ISBN: 9780820458199
Format: Paperback
$163.15

Weiss's substantial oeuvre has become a casualty of the cold war's end, the collapse of socialism, and the beginning...  Read More >>

Die Suche nach der Sudafrikanischen Iphigenie/In Search of the South African Iphigenie: Seminarberichte/Seminar Reports

Die Suche nach der Sudafrikanischen Iphigenie/In Search...

Author: Erika von Wietersheim ,  Dan Farrelly
ISBN: 9780953425785
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Discussions of Goethe's 'Iphigenie auf Tauris' (Under the Curse) as relevant to women's issues in modern South Africa...  Read More >>

The Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian guide to six Shakespeare plays

The Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian guide...

Author: Peter J Leithart ,  Canon Press
ISBN: 9781885767233
Format: Paperback
$55.44

This book is a Christian introduction to Shakespeare for high school students and includes analysis, questions,...  Read More >>

Tennessee Williams: A Casebook

Tennessee Williams: A Casebook

Author: Robert Gross
ISBN: 9780815331742
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Pinter and the Object of Desire: An Approach Through the Screenplays

Pinter and the Object of Desire: An Approach Through...

Author: Linda Renton
ISBN: 9781900755535
Format: Paperback
$90.99

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

""The Winter's Tale""

""The Winter's Tale""

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Patricia Tatspaugh
ISBN: 9781903436165
Format: Paperback
$79.17

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

Othello

Othello

Author: Gayle Holste ,  William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780613998352
Format: Hardback
$50.82

For use in schools and libraries only. Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern...  Read More >>

King Henry VI

King Henry VI

Author: William Shakespeare ,  John D. Cox
ISBN: 9781903436301
Format: Hardback
$316.80

In their introduction to this play, the editors show how the young Shakespeare, working closely from his chronicle...  Read More >>

Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays

Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in...

Author: Sarah Beckwith (Department of English at Duke University)
ISBN: 9780226041346
Format: Hardback
$163.95

In this text, Sarah Beckwith explores the lavish and complex form of the York Corpus Christi plays. She shows how...  Read More >>

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

Author: Michael Dobson ,  Stanley W. Wells
ISBN: 9780198117353
Format: Hardback
$120.00

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is a reference work about Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives....  Read More >>

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