Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing...

Author: Richard Peterson ,  Richard O. Peterson
ISBN: 9780764585050
Format: Paperback
$15.81

One of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, this play is set in the seaport town of Messina, in Sicily. The drama concerns...  Read More >>

Shakespeare in the Theater: The Scholarly Literature

Shakespeare in the Theater: The Scholarly Literature...

Author: Stephen Orgel ,  Sean Keilen
ISBN: 9780815329688
Format: Hardback
$435.60

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Shakespeare and the Interpretive Tradition: The Scholarly Literature

Shakespeare and the Interpretive Tradition: The Scholarly...

Author: Stephen Orgel ,  Sean Keilen
ISBN: 9780815329664
Format: Hardback
$435.60

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Embodied Memory: The Theatre of George Tabori

Embodied Memory: The Theatre of George Tabori

Author: Anat Feinberg
ISBN: 9780877456865
Format: Hardback
$110.88

A study of the controversial dramatist, George Tabori. A Jewish-Hungarian playwright and novelist, Tabori is a unique...  Read More >>

Carlo Gozzi: A Life in 18th Century Venetian Theater, an Afterlife in Opera

Carlo Gozzi: A Life in 18th Century Venetian Theater,...

Author: John L. DiGaetani
ISBN: 9780786400775
Format: Hardback
$131.87

This is a biography in English of this figure in the history of world theater, a playwright in 18th century Venice....  Read More >>

Half a Century of Japanese Theater V.1; 1990s

Half a Century of Japanese Theater V.1; 1990s

Author: Japan Playwrights Association
ISBN: 9784314101356
Format: Paperback
$132.00

The first volume, Japanese Theater of the 1990s, Part 1, treats six major playwrights, five men and one woman. Their...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare: A Popular Life

William Shakespeare: A Popular Life

Author: Garry O'Connor
ISBN: 9781557834010
Format: Hardback
$73.79

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Brian Friel's (Post) Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion, and Politics

Brian Friel's (Post) Colonial Drama: Language, Illusion,...

Author: F. C. McGrath
ISBN: 9780815628132
Format: Hardback
$92.27

This study of Ireland's most important living playwright places Brian Friel in the new canon of post-colonial writers....  Read More >>

Shakespeare Studies v. 27

Shakespeare Studies v. 27

Author: J.Leeds Barroll
ISBN: 9780838638354
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing more than three hundred...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Criminals: Criminology, Fiction, and Drama

Shakespeare's Criminals: Criminology, Fiction, and Drama...

Author: Victoria M. Time
ISBN: 9780313308703
Format: Hardback
$131.00

Challenges criminologists to expand their spheres of inquiry through Shakespeare's use of law and justice themes....  Read More >>

Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350-1642

Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350-1642

Author: Professor John D Cox (Hope College, Michigan)
ISBN: 9781280159282
Format: Undefined
$330.00

John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing...  Read More >>

The Language of Drama

The Language of Drama

Author: Keith Sanger
ISBN: 9781280335907
Format: Electronic book text
$152.99

This book is unique in offering A-Level and undergradute students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis...  Read More >>

Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan

Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan

Author: Professor Tiffany Stern (University of Oxford University College Oxford, UK University College Oxford, UK University College Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781280766732
Format: Electronic book text
$445.82

Conventions and references Introduction Rehearsal in the theatres of Peter Quince and Ben Jonson Rehearsal in Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre

A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre

Author: Professor Christopher Innes (York University, Toronto)
ISBN: 9781280326974
Format: Electronic book text
$330.00

A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre provides a fascintating overview of modern theatre. Innes has selected three...  Read More >>

Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre

Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre...

Author: Patrick McGuinness (St. Anne's College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9781280765988
Format: Electronic book text
$530.75

This is a study of one of theatre's quietest but most radical innovators. The playwright, poet, and essayist Maurice...  Read More >>

Theatre of the Book 1480 1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe

Theatre of the Book 1480 1880: Print, Text, and Performance...

Author: Professor of English and Comparative Literature Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University)
ISBN: 9781280444937
Format: Electronic book text
$191.08

Theatre of the Book is an account of the entangled histories of print and the theatre in Europe between the Renaissance...  Read More >>

Cliffsnotes on Shakespeare's King Lear

Cliffsnotes on Shakespeare's King Lear

Author: Sheri Metzger, PH.D.
ISBN: 9781299909496
Format: Electronic book text
$15.81

In CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's King Lear, you explore one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies - the gripping...  Read More >>

Drama Criticism

Drama Criticism

Author: Lawrence J Trudeau
ISBN: 9780787631390
Format: Hardback
$559.68

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The World and the Chylde

The World and the Chylde

Author: Peter Happe ,  Clifford Davidson
ISBN: 9781580440523
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe

Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe

Author: Roger Chartier
ISBN: 9780712346351
Format: Paperback
$84.48

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Political Shakespeare: The Scholarly Literature

Political Shakespeare: The Scholarly Literature

Author: Stephen Orgel ,  Sean Keilen
ISBN: 9780815329695
Format: Hardback
$435.60

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Shakespeare and Gender: The Scholarly Literature

Shakespeare and Gender: The Scholarly Literature

Author: Stephen Orgel ,  Sean Keilen
ISBN: 9780815329626
Format: Hardback
$435.60

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Shakespeare's Poems: The Scholarly Literature

Shakespeare's Poems: The Scholarly Literature

Author: Stephen Orgel ,  Sean Keilen
ISBN: 9780815329640
Format: Hardback
$435.60

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