Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa to the World

The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard: From South Africa...

Author: Albert Wertheim
ISBN: 9780253338235
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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Shakespeare's Reading

Shakespeare's Reading

Author: Miola
ISBN: 9780198711698
Format: Paperback
$60.95

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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: 9780198711605
Format: Paperback
$38.95

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

Shakespeare and Masculinity

Shakespeare and Masculinity

Author: Smith
ISBN: 9780198711896
Format: Paperback
$74.95

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The Magnetic Lady: Ben Jonson

The Magnetic Lady: Ben Jonson

Author: Peter Happe ,  Peter Happe
ISBN: 9780719048890
Format: Hardback
$91.99

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The Trickster-Function in the Theatre of García Lorca

The Trickster-Function in the Theatre of García Lorca...

Author: Sarah Wright
ISBN: 9781855660748
Format: Hardback
$211.20

A contribution to the understanding of the theatrical output of major figure of Spanish literary canon.  Read More >>

Autorentext und Inszenierungstext

Autorentext und Inszenierungstext

Author: Christine Damis
ISBN: 9783484523036
Format: Hardback
$406.56

Die Arbeit analysiert und beschreibt erstmalig Rezeptionsmechanismen von Theatertexten mit Blick auf die ""konkrete...  Read More >>

100 Years of Kurt Weill

100 Years of Kurt Weill

Author: Tom Sellar
ISBN: 9780822364887
Format: Paperback
$31.68

The year 2000 marks the hundredth birthday of theater and opera composer Kurt Weill. This book features rediscovered...  Read More >>

Edward Albee: A Singular Journey

Edward Albee: A Singular Journey

Author: Mel Gussow
ISBN: 9781557834478
Format: Paperback
$44.75

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Shakespeare, His Life & Work

Shakespeare, His Life & Work

Author: Richard Hampton ,  David Weston
ISBN: 9781572701786
Format: Audio
$47.39

This entertaining introduction to Shakespeare's work weaves biographical information with excerpts from 33 of his...  Read More >>

Shakespeare'S Tragic Form: Spirit in the Wheel

Shakespeare'S Tragic Form: Spirit in the Wheel

Author: Dr Robert Lanier Reid
ISBN: 9780874137255
Format: Hardback
$91.08

Since about 1960, when five-act division in Shakespeare's plays was strongly disputed, most critics have focused...  Read More >>

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

Drama for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and...

Author: Michael L Lablanc
ISBN: 9780787640842
Format: Hardback
$311.52

Every bi-annual volume of Drama for Students features coverage of 14 plays most frequently studied in literature...  Read More >>

Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment

Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the...

Author: Martin Harries
ISBN: 9780804736213
Format: Hardback
$80.95

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Renaissance Drama v. 29; New Series

Renaissance Drama v. 29; New Series

Author: Wendy Wall ,  Jeffrey Masten
ISBN: 9780810118119
Format: Hardback
$184.67

This text is an annual publication devoted to understanding drama as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The...  Read More >>

Understanding Othello: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

Understanding Othello: A Student Casebook to Issues,...

Author: Faith Nostbakken
ISBN: 9780313309861
Format: Hardback
$87.00

Although Othello has been one of Shakespeare's most popular plays, its performance history has been marked with...  Read More >>

Student Companion to Tennessee Williams

Student Companion to Tennessee Williams

Author: Nancy M. Tischler
ISBN: 9780313312380
Format: Hardback
$80.00

From his earliest success in 1945 with the poignant 'The Glass Menagerie', until his final curtain call with the...  Read More >>

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Mary Beth Rose
ISBN: 9780140714616
Format: Paperback
$29.99

With dramatic criticism and commentaries from such authors as George Bernard Shaw and Peter Holland, as well as...  Read More >>

Cymbeline

Cymbeline

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Peter Holland
ISBN: 9780140714722
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' ""Persians"" and the History of the Fifth Century

The Emptiness of Asia: Aeschylus' ""Persians"" and the...

Author: Thomas Harrison
ISBN: 9780715629680
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Aeschylus' ""Persions"" is the first surviving Greek drama. This book provides aims to provide both a more satisfactory...  Read More >>

The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture

The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern...

Author: Christopher Pye
ISBN: 9780822325475
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Combines psychoanalytic and cultural theory to advance an innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity....  Read More >>

The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture

The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern...

Author: Christopher Pye
ISBN: 9780822325109
Format: Hardback
$146.95

Combines psychoanalytic and cultural theory to advance an innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity....  Read More >>

The Merchant of Venice

The Merchant of Venice

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781903342176
Format: Mixed media product
$26.27

Although generally considered a comedy, this play has an underlying plot of considerable moral dimension. The three...  Read More >>

Macbeth

Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781903342152
Format: Mixed media product
$26.27

This play is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies. It encompasses witchcraft, bloody murder, ghostly apparitions...  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781903342169
Format: Mixed media product
$26.27

Love, sex and death are the components in this story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers...  Read More >>

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