Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Shakespeare and Feminist Performance: Ideology on Stage

Shakespeare and Feminist Performance: Ideology on Stage...
Author: Sarah Werner ISBN: 9781280108181 Format: Electronic book text	$316.80
Argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing... Read More >>

Colonial Women: Race and Culture in Stuart Drama

Colonial Women: Race and Culture in Stuart Drama
Author: Assistant Professor Department of English Heidi Hutner (State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY) ISBN: 9781280531194 Format: Electronic book text	$160.38
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Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender

Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender
Author: Michelene Wandor ISBN: 9781280068157 Format: Electronic book text	$330.00
In this extensively revised and updated edition of Michelene Wandor's classic work Look Back in Gender, Wandor takes... Read More >>

Shakespeare's Military Language

Shakespeare's Military Language
Author: Charles Edelman (Edith Cowan University, Western Australia) ISBN: 9781281291707 Format: Electronic book text	$2164.80
More than just a book of definitions, the dictionary provides a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's portrayal... Read More >>

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure
Author: George L Geckle ISBN: 9781281291837 Format: Electronic book text	$2164.80
In this critical evaluation of the classic, the discussion focuses on the nature of the major characters, the morality... Read More >>

Deadly Thought

Deadly Thought
Author: Jan H Blits ISBN: 9781299830684 Format: Electronic book text	$118.77
The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul,... Read More >>

Tyranny in Shakespeare

Tyranny in Shakespeare
Author: Mary Ann McGrail ISBN: 9781299790575 Format: Electronic book text	$87.09
For Shakespeare, tyranny is a perpetual political and human problem. This work locates Shakespeare's expansive definition... Read More >>

Enter The Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's Stage

Enter The Body: Women and Representation on Shakespeare's...
Author: Carol Chillington Rutter ISBN: 9780415141635 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This work speculates on how the theatre ""plays"" women's bodies, and how audiences read them. Covering themes including... Read More >>

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett
Author: David Pattie ISBN: 9780415202534 Format: Hardback	$189.00
This book is the first volume to bring together accessible accounts not only of Beckett's life and work, nut of... Read More >>

Aphra Behn's Afterlife

Aphra Behn's Afterlife
Author: Jane Spencer (Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Exeter) ISBN: 9780198184942 Format: Hardback	$279.95
The most successful woman writer of the Restoration, Aphra Behn (1640-89) became an important influence on the literature... Read More >>

Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy

Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy
Author: M. S. Silk (Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Professor of Greek Language and Literature, King's College, University of London) ISBN: 9780198140290 Format: Hardback	$312.95
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Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century

Oscar Wilde's Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry...
Author: Josephine M. Guy (Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of Nottingham) , Ian Small (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham) ISBN: 9780198187288 Format: Hardback	$264.95
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Paradigms Found: Feminist, Gay, and New Historicist Readings of Shakespeare

Paradigms Found: Feminist, Gay, and New Historicist...
Author: Pilar Hidalgo ISBN: 9789042012356 Format: Paperback	$153.12
Paradigms Found is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, and for anyone interested in... Read More >>

The Bengali Drama: Its Origin and Development

The Bengali Drama: Its Origin and Development
Author: P. Guha-Thakurta ISBN: 9780415245043 Format: Hardback	$462.00
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Collected Screenplays 1

Collected Screenplays 1
Author: Harold Pinter , Ian Smith ISBN: 9780571203192 Format: Paperback	$59.99
This collection of screenplays includes ""The Servant"", ""The Pumpkin Eater"", ""The Quiller Memorandum"", ""Accident"",... Read More >>

Collected Screenplays 2

Collected Screenplays 2
Author: Harold Pinter , Ian Smith ISBN: 9780571203246 Format: Paperback	$64.69
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Dictionary of Shakespeare

Dictionary of Shakespeare
Author: Louise McConnell , Louise McConnell ISBN: 9781579582159 Format: Hardback	$264.00
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The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays

The Comedy of Errors: Critical Essays
Author: Robert S. Miola , Philip C. Kolin ISBN: 9780815338895 Format: Paperback	$83.99
This collection of essays and reviews represents some of the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's... Read More >>

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Essays

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Essays
Author: Dorothea Kehler ISBN: 9780815338901 Format: Paperback	$112.00
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed... Read More >>

Thomas Durfey and Restoration Drama: The Work of a Forgotten Writer

Thomas Durfey and Restoration Drama: The Work of a Forgotten...
Author: John McVeagh , Mr. Richard Bradford ISBN: 9780754602538 Format: Hardback	$189.00
This is the only complete critical study yet published of an underrated and prolific Restoration dramatist and poet.... Read More >>

Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream""

Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream""
Author: Cliffs Notes ISBN: 9780764586729 Format: Paperback	$15.81
This guide to Shakespeare's ""A Midsummers Night's Dream"" aims to help students understand the overall structure... Read More >>

Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria

Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria
Author: Aristophanes , Jeffrey Henderson ISBN: 9780674995871 Format: Hardback	$63.36
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Space and Time in Epic Theater: The Brechtian Legacy

Space and Time in Epic Theater: The Brechtian Legacy...
Author: Sarah Bryant-Bertail (Author) ISBN: 9781571131867 Format: Hardback	$184.80
The development of epic theater before, during, and after Brecht's time, and analysis of epic productions, showing... Read More >>

Drama for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Dramas

Drama for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and...
Author: Elizabeth Thomason ISBN: 9780787640859 Format: Hardback	$311.52
Every bi-annual volume of Drama for Students features coverage of 15 plays most frequently studied in literature... Read More >>

Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew""

Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew""
Author: Kate Maurer ISBN: 9780764586736 Format: Paperback	$19.77
This guide to William Shakespeare's ""The Taming of the Shrew"" aims to help students understand the structure of... Read More >>

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