Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Electra and Other Plays

Electra and Other Plays

Author: Euripides ,  Richard Rutherford
ISBN: 9780140446685
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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Theatres Of War: French Committed Theatre from the Second World War to the Cold War

Theatres Of War: French Committed Theatre from the Second...

Author: Ted Freeman ,  E. Freeman
ISBN: 9780859894852
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Theatres of War is the first full-length study to be devoted to the 'Committed' theatre that flourished in modern...  Read More >>

Moliere Today 1

Moliere Today 1

Author: Michael Spingler
ISBN: 9789057020278
Format: Paperback
$81.99

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Moliere Today 2

Moliere Today 2

Author: Michael Spingler
ISBN: 9789057021145
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood

Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful...

Author: Cari Beauchamp
ISBN: 9780520214927
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and the other women who...  Read More >>

The Wisdom of Shakespeare in  As You Like it

The Wisdom of Shakespeare in As You Like it

Author: Peter A. Dawkins ,  Mark Rylance
ISBN: 9780953289011
Format: Undefined
$65.87

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King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance

King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language...

Author: Judy Kronenfeld
ISBN: 9780822320388
Format: Paperback
$45.95

The author critiques the methodology and assumptions of many new historicist, Marxist, and deconstructive approaches...  Read More >>

King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance

King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language...

Author: Judy Kronenfeld
ISBN: 9780822320272
Format: Hardback
$170.95

The author critiques the methodology and assumptions of many new historicist, Marxist, and deconstructive approaches...  Read More >>

The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946

The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946

Author: Lois Gordon
ISBN: 9780300074956
Format: Paperback
$51.95

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When A Young Man Falls in Love: The Sexual Exploitation of Women in New Comedy

When A Young Man Falls in Love: The Sexual Exploitation...

Author: Vincent J. Rosivach
ISBN: 9780415184489
Format: Hardback
$305.00

When A Young Man Falls in Love poses important questions about the dramatic portrayal of women in the Roman world....  Read More >>

Shakespearian Criticism: Gender Roles

Shakespearian Criticism: Gender Roles

Author: Dana Barnes ,  Dana Barnes
ISBN: 9780787619855
Format: Hardback
$823.68

This illustrated volume focused on criticisms published after 1960, providing the reader with systematic approach...  Read More >>

Dramatic Discourse: Dialogue as Interaction in Plays

Dramatic Discourse: Dialogue as Interaction in Plays...

Author: Vimala Herman
ISBN: 9780415184519
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This study uses the major frameworks of modern discourse studies to analyse dramatic dialogue.  Read More >>

The Queens

The Queens

Author: Normand Chaurette ,  Linda Gaboriau
ISBN: 9780889224032
Format: Paperback
$31.55

The shifting passions and ambitions of six women drawn from Shakespeare's theatre. Cast of 6 women.  Read More >>

Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman

Bernard Shaw: The Ascent of the Superman

Author: Sally Peters
ISBN: 9780300075007
Format: Paperback
$61.95

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Rewrites: A Memoir

Rewrites: A Memoir

Author: Neil Simon
ISBN: 9780684835624
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing

Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern...

Author: Kate Chedgzoy (Lecturer in English and Comparative Studies, University of Warwick) ,  Melanie Hanson (Lecturer in English, University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781853311840
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Voicing Women offers fresh, theoretically inspired readings of women Renaissance writers, as well as detailed critical...  Read More >>

Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays

Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays...

Author: Karen Brazell
ISBN: 9780231108720
Format: Hardback
$223.95

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A Star-crossed Golden Age: Myth and the Spanish Comedia

A Star-crossed Golden Age: Myth and the Spanish Comedia...

Author: Frederick A. De Armas
ISBN: 9780838753767
Format: Hardback
$91.86

The NEH Institute was created to study Spanish drama from 1580–1680 from the perspective of Greek and Roman mythology,...  Read More >>

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare ,  J A Bryant
ISBN: 9780833510891
Format: Hardback
$38.81

Newly revised, here is Shakepeare's dramatic play about two stars-crossed lovers, ""Romeo & Juliet."" It features...  Read More >>

Aristophanes: Birds: Student Edition

Aristophanes: Birds: Student Edition

Author: Aristophanes ,  Nan Dunbar (Emeritus Fellow in Classics, Emeritus Fellow in Classics, Somerville College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198721772
Format: Paperback
$99.95

This is an abridgement of Nan Dunbar's 1995 Oxford edition of Birds, one of Aristophanes' masterpieces (and the...  Read More >>

Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage

Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the...

Author: Josephine Lee
ISBN: 9781566396370
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Tells us about the complex social and political issues depicted by Asian-American playwrights. In this title, the...  Read More >>

Locke and Blake: A Conversation Across the Eighteenth Century

Locke and Blake: A Conversation Across the Eighteenth...

Author: Wayne Glausser
ISBN: 9780813015705
Format: Hardback
$158.27

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The King and the Adulteress: A Psychoanalytic and Literary Reinterpretation of Madame Bovary and King Lear

The King and the Adulteress: A Psychoanalytic and Literary...

Author: Roberto Speziale-Bagliacca ,  Colin Rice
ISBN: 9780822320753
Format: Hardback
$89.95

Presents a psychoanalytic study of ""Madame Bovary"" and ""King Lear"" that produces an understanding of these works....  Read More >>

Early Women Dramatists, 1550-1800

Early Women Dramatists, 1550-1800

Author: Margarete Rubik
ISBN: 9780312210595
Format: Hardback
$250.80

The book offers a comprehensive survey of women's drama between the Renaissance and the end of the eighteenth century,...  Read More >>

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