Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

The Changeling: Thomas Middleton & William Rowley

The Changeling: Thomas Middleton & William Rowley

Author: N. Bawcutt ,  Thomas Middleton
ISBN: 9780719044816
Format: Paperback
$17.99

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Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond

Tragedy and the Tragic: Greek Theatre and Beyond

Author: Silk
ISBN: 9780198152590
Format: Paperback
$140.95

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Death and the King's Horseman

Death and the King's Horseman

Author: Wole Soyinka
ISBN: 9780413695505
Format: Paperback
$26.95

Based on real events that took place in Oyo, the ancient Yoruba city of Nigeria, in 1946, Nobel Prize-winner Wole...  Read More >>

Four Restoration Marriage Plays

Four Restoration Marriage Plays

Author: Thomas Otway ,  Nathaniel Lee
ISBN: 9780192834478
Format: Paperback
$12.95

Marriage and its discontents lie at the heart of Restoration comedy. In all four of the plays, a married woman confronts...  Read More >>

Court Masques

Court Masques

Author: David Lindley
ISBN: 9780192834560
Format: Paperback
$12.95

The masque was a mode of entertainment at the early Stuart court. This selection of 18 masques traces the evolution...  Read More >>

Theater Ist Theater: Ein Vergleich der Kreidekreisstuecke Bertolt Brechts und Li Xingdaos

Theater Ist Theater: Ein Vergleich der Kreidekreisstuecke...

Author: Peter Yang
ISBN: 9780820439051
Format: Hardback
$139.79

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The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays

The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays

Author: J. M. Synge ,  Ann Saddlemyer
ISBN: 9780192834485
Format: Paperback
$16.95

This volume offers all of J M Synge's plays, which range from racy comedy to stark tragedy, all sharing a lyricism....  Read More >>

The Alchemist and Other Plays

The Alchemist and Other Plays

Author: Ben Jonson ,  Gordon Campbell
ISBN: 9780192834461
Format: Paperback
$25.95

This edition brings together Jonson's four great comedies in one volume. ""Volpone"" (1606), ""Epicene"" (1609),...  Read More >>

""The Country Wife and Other Plays

""The Country Wife and Other Plays

Author: William Wycherley ,  Peter Dixon
ISBN: 9780192834546
Format: Paperback
$20.95

William Wycherley's comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, and social criticism. This volume...  Read More >>

Lucky Stiff

Lucky Stiff

Author: Stephen Flaherty ,  Lynn Ahrens
ISBN: 9780769253947
Format: Book
$52.77

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Arnold Wesker: A Casebook

Arnold Wesker: A Casebook

Author: Reade W. Dornan
ISBN: 9780815311782
Format: Hardback
$194.00

Collection of essays on one of Britains ""Angry Young Men"". It contains critical discussions of most of Wesker's...  Read More >>

The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare: Literary Reception in Anthropological Perspective

The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare: Literary Reception...

Author: Peter Davidhazi
ISBN: 9786613960092
Format: Electronic book text
$475.20

Focusing on England, Hungary and on some other European countries, the book explores the latent religious patterns...  Read More >>

Samuel Beckett: A Casebook

Samuel Beckett: A Casebook

Author: Jennifer M. Jeffers ,  Kimball King
ISBN: 9780815325512
Format: Hardback
$305.00

From Deleuzean rhizomatics to New Historicism to the crucial question of gender, each reading repositions Beckett's...  Read More >>

Closet Performances: Political Exhibition and Prohibition in the Dramas of Byron and Shelley

Closet Performances: Political Exhibition and Prohibition...

Author: Michael Simpson
ISBN: 9780804730952
Format: Hardback
$117.95

Revealing the series of closet dramas written by Byron and Shelley to be deeply embedded in contemporary radical...  Read More >>

The Propaganda of Power: The Role of Panegyric in Late Antiquity

The Propaganda of Power: The Role of Panegyric in Late...

Author: Mary Whitby
ISBN: 9789004105713
Format: Hardback
$551.76

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Staging the Rage: Web of Misogyny in Modern Drama

Staging the Rage: Web of Misogyny in Modern Drama

Author: Katherine H. Burkman ,  Judith Roof
ISBN: 9780838637630
Format: Hardback
$98.20

The essayists in this book explore not only the rage of modern dramatists' misogynistic characters but also the...  Read More >>

Playing the Globe: Genre and Geography in English Renaissance Drama

Playing the Globe: Genre and Geography in English Renaissance...

Author: John Gillies ,  Prof. Virginia Mason Vaughan
ISBN: 9780838637395
Format: Hardback
$118.80

The relationship between English Renaissance drama and Renaissance geography is discussed in this book. It also...  Read More >>

Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words: A Guide from A to Zounds

Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words: A Guide from A to Zounds...

Author: Dale F. Coye
ISBN: 9780313306556
Format: Hardback
$114.00

An authoritative resource that provides readers with the correct pronunciation of any difficult word in Shakespeare's...  Read More >>

The Critical Response to Samuel Beckett

The Critical Response to Samuel Beckett

Author: Cathleen C. Andonian
ISBN: 9780313289101
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Though he experimented with literary forms, his works are within the 20th century intellectual tradition of alienation,...  Read More >>

Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An Annotated Bibliography

Contemporary African American Female Playwrights: An...

Author: Dana A. Williams
ISBN: 9780313301322
Format: Hardback
$60.00

This reference book sheds light on the achievement of African American female playwrights, both in the theatre...  Read More >>

Troilus And Cressida: Third Series

Troilus And Cressida: Third Series

Author: William Shakespeare ,  David Bevington (University of Chicago, USA)
ISBN: 9781903436691
Format: Paperback
$47.52

The introduction to this edition of ""Troilus and Cressida"" places it in its late Elizabethan context, examines...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar: Third Series

Julius Caesar: Third Series

Author: William Shakespeare ,  David Daniell
ISBN: 9781903436219
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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Renaissance Drama in Action

Renaissance Drama in Action

Author: Martin White
ISBN: 9780415067393
Format: Paperback
$79.99

An exploration of Renaissance theatre practice and staging, which relates the characteristics of Renaissance theatre...  Read More >>

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