Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

The Arab in Israeli Drama and Theatre

The Arab in Israeli Drama and Theatre

Author: Dan Urian ,  Naomi Paz
ISBN: 9789057021312
Format: Paperback
$110.00

The Author uses of extensive examples, showing how theatre, politics and personal perceptions intertwine, presenting...  Read More >>

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Lambda Literary Award)

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Lambda...

Author: Moises Kaufman
ISBN: 9780375702327
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Shakespearian Criticism: Kingship

Shakespearian Criticism: Kingship

Author: Dana Barnes ,  Dana Barnes
ISBN: 9780787612504
Format: Hardback
$823.68

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

August Wilson: A Research and Production Sourcebook

August Wilson: A Research and Production Sourcebook...

Author: Yvonne Shafer
ISBN: 9780313292705
Format: Hardback
$165.00

Based on extensive research that includes two interviews with Wilson, this reference book is a comprehensive guide...  Read More >>

Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of...

Author: David Mamet
ISBN: 9780231110884
Format: Hardback
$39.95

What makes good drama? How does drama matter in our lives? One of America's most respected writers reminds us of...  Read More >>

Carlo Goldoni and Eighteenth-century Theatre

Carlo Goldoni and Eighteenth-century Theatre

Author: Joseph Farrell
ISBN: 9780773484658
Format: Hardback
$290.27

"This volume discusses the work of the comic playwright Carlo Goldoni in 18th-century Italian theatre. It includes...  Read More >>

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

Author: Edmond Rostand ,  Geoff Woollen
ISBN: 9780631004806
Format: Paperback
$46.55

Text in French, with introd. and notes in English.  Read More >>

Critical Essays on Shakespeare's the Tempest

Critical Essays on Shakespeare's the Tempest

Author: Prof. Virginia Mason Vaughan ,  Alden T. Vaughan
ISBN: 9780783800516
Format: Hardback
$174.24

Essays address William Shakespeares The Tempest.  Read More >>

Sophocles’ Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society

Sophocles’ Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society

Author: Charles Segal
ISBN: 9780674821019
Format: Paperback
$68.95

In a series of interconnected essays, Charles Segal studies five of Sophocles’ seven extant plays: Ajax, Oedipus...  Read More >>

Edward Bond

Edward Bond

Author: Michael Mangan
ISBN: 9780746308837
Format: Paperback
$15.50

This study examines Edward Bond's work, from The Pope’s Wedding (1962) to Coffee (1995), giving an overview of the...  Read More >>

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Author: Mary Hamer
ISBN: 9780746308714
Format: Paperback
$14.00

This new reading offers an account of the historical figure of Caesar and of the Roman tradition that he has come...  Read More >>

Sophocles: Ajax

Sophocles: Ajax

Author: A. F. Garvie ,  A.F. Garvie
ISBN: 9780856686603
Format: Paperback
$46.58

Ajax, perhaps the earliest surviving tragedy of Sophocles, presents the downfall and disgrace of a great hero whose...  Read More >>

Menander: Dyskolos, Samia and Other Plays - Companion

Menander: Dyskolos, Samia and Other Plays - Companion...

Author: S. Ireland
ISBN: 9781853991998
Format: Paperback
$60.59

These comedies by Greek dramatist Menander reveal that the oft-employed theme of mistaken identity is as old as...  Read More >>

Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s

Our Australian Theatre in the 1990s

Author: Veronica Kelly
ISBN: 9789042002890
Format: Paperback
$80.26

AUSTRALIAN THEATRE in the 1990s is a vigorous enterprise displaying the energies and contradictions of a multicultural...  Read More >>

Wagner's Operas and Desire

Wagner's Operas and Desire

Author: James M. McGlathery
ISBN: 9780820436937
Format: Hardback
$189.95

Wagner audiences are especially challenged to fathom the meaning of his operas, for there is much mystery as to...  Read More >>

Orphee

Orphee

Author: Jean Cocteau ,  Eugene Freeman
ISBN: 9781853992841
Format: Paperback
$60.72

This student edition consists of the French text of Cocteau's Orphee with English introduction and explanatory...  Read More >>

Nur das Zwecklose wird vom Hauch des Ewigen berührt: Melancholie in Hans Henny Jahnns Roman Fluss ohne Ufer

Nur das Zwecklose wird vom Hauch des Ewigen berührt:...

Author: Julia Genz
ISBN: 9783932602351
Format: Paperback
$97.42

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Characters of Theophrastus

Characters of Theophrastus

Author: Theophrastus ,  R. G. Ussher
ISBN: 9781853991882
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Edited with Introduction, Commentary and Index  Read More >>

Bahnwarter Thiel

Bahnwarter Thiel

Author: Gerhart Hauptmann ,  David Horrocks
ISBN: 9781853993121
Format: Paperback
$63.36

""Bahnwärter Thiel"", by far the best story ever written by Hauptmann, follows the principles of the Naturalist...  Read More >>

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