Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

Contemporary Jewish-American Dramatists and Poets: A...

Author: Joel Shatzky ,  Michael Taub
ISBN: 9780313294617
Format: Hardback
$114.00

Entries summarize the life, work, and critical reception of contemporary Jewish-American dramatists and poets. These...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies

Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in...

Author: Philippa Berry
ISBN: 9780415068956
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In this text, the author Philippa Berry rewrites critical perceptions of death in Shakespeare's tragedies from a...  Read More >>

Italienische Spieltexte II: Aus unveröffentlichten Handschriften

Italienische Spieltexte II: Aus unveröffentlichten Handschriften...

Author: Alfred Noe
ISBN: 9783110164930
Format: Hardback
$703.56

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für ""Italienische Spieltexte II"" verfügbar.  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in the Tragedies

Shakespeare's Feminine Endings: Disfiguring Death in...

Author: Philippa Berry
ISBN: 9780415068949
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In this text, the author Philippa Berry rewrites critical perceptions of death in Shakespeare's tragedies from a...  Read More >>

Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe

Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe

Author: P. Kiernan ,  Kiernan
ISBN: 9780312222741
Format: Hardback
$343.20

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Stages of Desire: The Mythological Tradition in Classical and Contemporary Spanish Theater

Stages of Desire: The Mythological Tradition in Classical...

Author: Michael Kidd (University of New Mexico)
ISBN: 9780271025087
Format: Paperback
$73.79

A study of how Spanish playwrights have expoited classical mythology over the centuries. Kidd reviews the work of...  Read More >>

The Convent of Pleasure"" and Other Plays

The Convent of Pleasure"" and Other Plays

Author: Margaret Cavendish ,  Anne Shaver (Professor of English, Denison University)
ISBN: 9780801861000
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Edited with notes and annotation by Anne Shaver, '""The Convent of Pleasure"" and Other Plays' also contains a timeline,...  Read More >>

""The Tempest""

""The Tempest""

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Alden T. Vaughan
ISBN: 9781903436080
Format: Paperback
$44.88

This edition situates ""The Tempest"" at the centre of changing cultural attitudes towards colonialism, power politics...  Read More >>

""Tempest""

""Tempest""

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Alden T. Vaughan
ISBN: 9781903436073
Format: Hardback
$264.00

This edition situates ""The Tempest"" at the centre of changing cultural attitudes towards colonialism, power politics...  Read More >>

William Shakespeare: Richard II: Essays, Articles, Reviews

William Shakespeare: Richard II: Essays, Articles, Reviews...

Author: Martin Coyle
ISBN: 9780231115377
Format: Paperback
$42.95

This Columbia Critical Guide steers a clear path through the huge body of critical material on Richard II that has...  Read More >>

Euripides, 4: Ion, Children of Heracles, the Madness of Heracles, Iphigenia in Tauris, Orestes

Euripides, 4: Ion, Children of Heracles, the Madness...

Author: David R. Slavitt ,  Palmer Bovie
ISBN: 9780812216974
Format: Paperback
$39.95

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The Playwright's Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and out of Your Life

The Playwright's Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in...

Author: Gary Garrison (Tisch School of Arts, New York University, USA)
ISBN: 9780325001654
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Aimed at both aspiring and established playwrights, this guide offers tales of inspiration, tricks of the trade...  Read More >>

How to Read a Play

How to Read a Play

Author: Ronald Hayman
ISBN: 9780802136299
Format: Paperback
$34.32

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Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics

Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics...

Author: Gregory W. Dobrov (Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin, Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9780195116588
Format: Hardback
$157.95

This study explores the reflexive aspects of ancient theatrical culture across genres. The ""syntax"" of drama is...  Read More >>

Shakespeare After Theory

Shakespeare After Theory

Author: David Scott Kastan
ISBN: 9780415901123
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Responding to the theoretical initiatives of the last twenty years this book compellingly restores Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

Distance Manipulation: The Russian Modernist Search for a New Drama

Distance Manipulation: The Russian Modernist Search...

Author: Joanna Kot
ISBN: 9780810116542
Format: Hardback
$158.27

At the turn of the century, a stream of dramatic works appeared that confused their audiences to an unprecedented...  Read More >>

Towards a Cultural Philology: ""Phedre"" and the Construction of 'Racine'

Towards a Cultural Philology: ""Phedre"" and the Construction...

Author: Amy Wygant
ISBN: 9781900755146
Format: Paperback
$58.99

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""Othello"" and Interpretive Traditions

""Othello"" and Interpretive Traditions

Author: Edward Pechter
ISBN: 9780877456858
Format: Hardback
$95.04

This study desribes ""Othello's"" design and effects in a way that accounts for its power to engage the interests...  Read More >>

Moveable Margins: The Narrative Art of Carme Riera

Moveable Margins: The Narrative Art of Carme Riera

Author: Kathleen M. Glenn ,  Mirella Servodidio
ISBN: 9780838753996
Format: Hardback
$109.97

Riera's status as a Majorcan, a woman in a patriarchal culture and a speak and writer of a minority language (Catalan)...  Read More >>

Einfuhrung - Ergebnisse - Erkenntnisse (Sonderdruck)

Einfuhrung - Ergebnisse - Erkenntnisse (Sonderdruck)...

Author: Reinhart Meyer
ISBN: 9783484990494
Format: Paperback
$171.57

This annotated bibliography of dramas of the 18th century covers all dramas performed and/or published between 1700...  Read More >>

Shakespeare After Theory

Shakespeare After Theory

Author: David Scott Kastan
ISBN: 9780415901130
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Responding to the theoretical initiatives of the last twenty years this book restores Shakespeare's plays to the...  Read More >>

Aristophanes, 3: The Suits, Clouds, Birds

Aristophanes, 3: The Suits, Clouds, Birds

Author: David R. Slavitt ,  Palmer Bovie
ISBN: 9780812216981
Format: Paperback
$37.95

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Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Readings

Shakespeare's Late Plays: New Readings

Author: Jennifer Richards (Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture, Newcastle University) ,  James Knowles (Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle)
ISBN: 9780748611539
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays performed between 1608 and 1613.  Read More >>

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