Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Humour in British First World War Literature: Taming the Great War

Humour in British First World War Literature: Taming...

Author: Emily Anderson
ISBN: 9783031340505
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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The Opera (Edition2023)

The Opera (Edition2023)

Author: Streatfeild R a
ISBN: 9789359323121
Format: Paperback
$23.26

R. A. Streatfeild's classic novel ""The Opera"" provides readers with an enthralling insight into the realm of the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's First Folio: 400th Anniversary Facsimile Edition: Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, Published According to  the Original Copies

Shakespeare's First Folio: 400th Anniversary Facsimile...

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Adrian Edwards
ISBN: 9780847873821
Format: Hardback
$356.40

A full-size facsimile of one of the most complete early copies of the famed First Folio, selected and luxuriously...  Read More >>

Great Expectations

Great Expectations

Author: Tanika Gupta (Author) ,  Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781350448223
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Tanika Gupta's acclaimed reimagining of Charles Dicken's classic tale, transporting the well-known story to new...  Read More >>

Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts: The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures

Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts: The Staging...

Author: Ann C. Hall (University of Louisville, USA) ,  Alan Nadel (University of Kentucky, USA)
ISBN: 9781350371699
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Ghosts haunt the stages of world theatre, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century...  Read More >>

Jack Davis: The Maker of History

Jack Davis: The Maker of History

Author: Gerry Turcotte
ISBN: 9781923024342
Format: Paperback
$19.95

Originally published: Sydney, NSW: Angus & Robertson, 1994.  Read More >>

Kleist-Jahrbuch 2023

Kleist-Jahrbuch 2023

Author: Anne Fleig ,  Barbara Gribnitz
ISBN: 9783662680599
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Das Kleist-Jahrbuch 2023 dokumentiert die Verleihung des Kleist-Preises 2022 im November 2022 mit den Reden der...  Read More >>

The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne: What if everything you learned about Shakespeare was a lie?

The Starre, the Moone, the Sunne: What if everything...

Author: Ron Destro
ISBN: 9780645807714
Format: Paperback
$44.85

What if everything you learned about Shakespeare was a lie? This delightfully written and humorous tale explores...  Read More >>

Seneca in Performance

Seneca in Performance

Author: George W.M. Harrison
ISBN: 9781914535345
Format: Paperback
$58.30

The plays of Seneca the Younger, minister and philosopher under Nero, are today increasingly studied, appreciated...  Read More >>

On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare's Drama

On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare's Drama...

Author: Sophie Battell
ISBN: 9781474475686
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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Allegorising Thought on the Shakespearean Stage: The Discovery of the Mind

Allegorising Thought on the Shakespearean Stage: The...

Author: Claire Gu ron
ISBN: 9781399510653
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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Les derniers Iroquois

Les derniers Iroquois

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9789357972468
Format: Book
$60.59

Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout...  Read More >>

Le gibet

Le gibet

Author: Arthur Acheson
ISBN: 9789357972505
Format: Book
$52.48

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

La fille des indiens rouges

La fille des indiens rouges

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9789357972482
Format: Book
$44.19

This Arden edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is closely based on the 1609 Quarto. As Katherine Duncan-Jones demonstrates,...  Read More >>

Aventures de l''abbé de Choisy habillé en femme

Aventures de l''abbé de Choisy habillé en femme

Author: William Poel
ISBN: 9789357972604
Format: Book
$49.84

This book, published in 1913, argues that only a return to Elizabethan performance methods would enable a true understanding...  Read More >>

Un tournoi à Romans en 1484

Un tournoi à Romans en 1484

Author: C M Ingleby
ISBN: 9789357972581
Format: Book
$40.13

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

Poison on the Early Modern English Stage: Plants, Paints and Potions

Poison on the Early Modern English Stage: Plants, Paints...

Author: Lisa Hopkins ,  Bill Angus
ISBN: 9781526159922
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660

Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical...

Author: Marissa Nicosia (Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature, Pennsylvania State University - Abington College)
ISBN: 9780198872658
Format: Hardback
$168.19

This volume argues that early modern chronicle plays reckon with past, present, and future time, and in doing so...  Read More >>

Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English Drama

Intersectionalities of Class in Early Modern English...

Author: Ronda Arab ,  Laurie Ellinghausen
ISBN: 9783031355639
Format: Hardback
$448.77

Defining class broadly as an identity categorization based on status, wealth, family, bloodlines, and occupation,...  Read More >>

The Tragedian: An essay on the histrionic genius of Junius Brutus Booth

The Tragedian: An essay on the histrionic genius of...

Author: Thomas Ridgeway Gould
ISBN: 9783348104401
Format: Paperback
$72.60

The Tragedian - An essay on the histrionic genius of Junius Brutus Booth is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of...  Read More >>

Furor Hereos: Heroischer Wahnsinn in Der Renaissance (Ariosto, Tasso, Bruno)

Furor Hereos: Heroischer Wahnsinn in Der Renaissance...

Author: Angela Oster
ISBN: 9783770566099
Format: Hardback
$322.08

Die Studie präsentiert Kultur und Literatur des Wahnsinns der Renaissance in den verschiedenen Wissensgebieten:...  Read More >>

Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England

Boundaries of Violence in Early Modern England

Author: Samantha Dressel ,  Matthew Carter
ISBN: 9781032333342
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Changeling: The State of Play

The Changeling: The State of Play

Author: Professor Gordon McMullan (King's College London, UK) ,  Kelly Stage (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
ISBN: 9781350288430
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling...  Read More >>

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