Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

Author: Sir Richard Eyre
ISBN: 9780571206612
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett and Alan Schneider

No Author Better Served: The Correspondence of Samuel...

Author: Maurice Harmon ,  Samuel Beckett
ISBN: 9780674003859
Format: Paperback
$88.95

Samuel Beckett claimed he couldn't talk about his work, but he proves remarkably forthcoming in these pages, which...  Read More >>

Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel

Author: John Keane
ISBN: 9780747548386
Format: Paperback
$56.93

Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy....  Read More >>

Le Comte D'Essex

Le Comte D'Essex

Author: Thomas Corneille ,  Wendy Gibson
ISBN: 9780859896665
Format: Paperback
$51.75

This is a volume in the series Textes littéraires/Exeter French Texts. If Elizabeth I of England thought to rid...  Read More >>

Twelfth Night: A User's Guide

Twelfth Night: A User's Guide

Author: Michael Pennington
ISBN: 9780879109509
Format: Paperback
$47.39

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge ,  H. J. Jackson
ISBN: 9780192840431
Format: Paperback
$28.95

This authoritative edition brings together a unique combination of Coleridge's poetry and prose - all the major...  Read More >>

Science on Stage: Expert Advice As Public Drama

Science on Stage: Expert Advice As Public Drama

Author: Stephen Hilgartner
ISBN: 9780804736466
Format: Paperback
$41.95

This is a theoretically informed and empirically grounded study of the social process through which the credibility...  Read More >>

Strindberg and the Five Senses: Strindberg's Chamber Plays

Strindberg and the Five Senses: Strindberg's Chamber...

Author: Hans-Goran Ekman
ISBN: 9780485115529
Format: Hardback
$475.20

In this book, Dr Ekman considers Strindberg's four ""Chamber plays"" of 1907: ""Thunder in the Air"", ""The Burned...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Masculinity

Shakespeare and Masculinity

Author: Smith
ISBN: 9780198711889
Format: Hardback
$144.95

""Shakespeare and Masculinity"" studies Shakespeare's male characters in the light of the medical beliefs, ethical...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time

Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time

Author: Martin Wiggins (Fellow, Fellow, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon)
ISBN: 9780198711612
Format: Hardback
$28.95

This book examines the plays of Shakespeare in their context as part of English Renaissance drama as a whole. Separate...  Read More >>

Science on Stage: Expert Advice As Public Drama

Science on Stage: Expert Advice As Public Drama

Author: Stephen Hilgartner
ISBN: 9780804736459
Format: Hardback
$41.95

This is a theoretically informed and empirically grounded study of the social process through which the credibility...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A.Foakes

Shakespeare Performed: Essays in Honor of R.A.Foakes...

Author: Grace Ioppolo
ISBN: 9780874137323
Format: Hardback
$98.20

Many of the contributors to this collection, including E. A. J. Honigmann, M. M. Mahood, Jonathan Bate, and Stanley...  Read More >>

The Glamour of Grammar: Orality and Politics and the Emergence of Sean O'Casey

The Glamour of Grammar: Orality and Politics and the...

Author: Colbert Kearney
ISBN: 9780313313035
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Levels of education and, consequently, of literacy were low in the Dublin tenements at the beginning of the 20th...  Read More >>

Richard II (York Notes Advanced) English Literature Study Guide - for 2026, 2027 exams: York Notes Series

Richard II (York Notes Advanced) English Literature...

Author: N Keeble
ISBN: 9780582424555
Format: Paperback
$20.67

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature.  This market-leading series has...  Read More >>

Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life

Christopher Marlowe: A Literary Life

Author: L. Hopkins
ISBN: 9780333698259
Format: Paperback
$232.85

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Arthur Miller's Life and Literature: An Annotated and Comprehensive Guide

Arthur Miller's Life and Literature: An Annotated and...

Author: Stefani Koorey
ISBN: 9780810838697
Format: Hardback
$368.81

A reference guide to the literature and life of American playwright, Arthur Miller. It lists his plays, short stories,...  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet, 1597

Romeo and Juliet, 1597

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Jill L. Levenson
ISBN: 9780197290392
Format: Hardback
$85.00

A photographic facsimile of the first quarto of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, printed 1597, taken from the copy...  Read More >>

My Apprenticeship

My Apprenticeship

Author: Maxim Gorky ,  Margaret Wettlin
ISBN: 9780898751178
Format: Paperback
$91.08

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was sent out into the world at the age of 11 to fend for himself. This second volume of...  Read More >>

Timon of Athens

Timon of Athens

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Frances E. Dolan
ISBN: 9780140714876
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Adapted stories with contemporary illustrations to introduce classical literature to a wider audience.  Read More >>

Drama Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Most Significant and Widely Studied Dramatic Works

Drama Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Most...

Author: Linda Pavlovski
ISBN: 9780787631413
Format: Hardback
$559.68

Each print volume in this long-standing series profiles approximately 4-8 dramatists by providing full-text or excerpted...  Read More >>

My Zinc Bed

My Zinc Bed

Author: David Hare
ISBN: 9780571205745
Format: Paperback
$34.32

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Beckett and Eros: Death of Humanism

Beckett and Eros: Death of Humanism

Author: P. Davies
ISBN: 9780333681626
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Menander, Volume III: Samia. Sikyonioi. Synaristosai. Phasma. Unidentified Fragments

Menander, Volume III: Samia. Sikyonioi. Synaristosai....

Author: Menander ,  William Geoffrey Arnott
ISBN: 9780674995840
Format: Hardback
$51.95

This volume provides a Greek text based on careful study of recently discovered papyri, a facing translation and...  Read More >>

The Language of Drama

The Language of Drama

Author: Keith Sanger
ISBN: 9780415214230
Format: Paperback
$50.99

This book applies contemporary linguistic research to a wide range of plays, soap operas and screenplays.  Read More >>

The Hidden Plot: Notes on Theatre and the State

The Hidden Plot: Notes on Theatre and the State

Author: Edward Bond
ISBN: 9780413725509
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This collection of passionate and polemical essays deal with drama, from its origin in the human mind to its use...  Read More >>

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