Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Not Bloody Likely!: And Other Quotations from Bernard Shaw

Not Bloody Likely!: And Other Quotations from Bernard...

Author: Bernard Dukore ,  Bernard F. Dukore
ISBN: 9780231104784
Format: Hardback
$69.95

This collection presents the best of George Bernard Shaw's witticisms and other turns-of-phrase. It surveys Shaw's...  Read More >>

Persians

Persians

Author: Aeschylus ,  Janet Lembke
ISBN: 9780195070088
Format: Paperback
$16.95

Aeschylus' first surviving play about real people and events in 480 B.C.  Read More >>

1726-1729

1726-1729

Author: Reinhart Meyer
ISBN: 9783484105423
Format: Hardback
$686.40

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

Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare

Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities...

Author: Harry Berger ,  Peter Erickson
ISBN: 9780804728522
Format: Paperback
$45.95

This collection contains 14 essays, written from the late 1970's to the present, making available for the full scope...  Read More >>

John Osborne: A Casebook

John Osborne: A Casebook

Author: Patricia D. Denison
ISBN: 9780824074425
Format: Hardback
$79.99

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

""Macbeth""

""Macbeth""

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Kenneth Muir
ISBN: 9781903436486
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Each book in the Arden Shakespeare series provides a full introduction to the featured work, discussing the critical...  Read More >>

Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays

Venus and Adonis: Critical Essays

Author: Philip C. Kolin
ISBN: 9780815321491
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Surveys the criticism of Shakespeare's long narrative poem by combining 19 works reprinted from the early 19th to...  Read More >>

Understanding Luigi Pirandello

Understanding Luigi Pirandello

Author: Fiora A. Bassanese
ISBN: 9781570030819
Format: Hardback
$105.47

This is an introduction to the life and literary contributions of a Nobel Prize winner and one of Italy's most distinguished...  Read More >>

Mimetic Disillusion: Eugene O'Neill, Tennesse Williams and U.S.Dramatic Realism

Mimetic Disillusion: Eugene O'Neill, Tennesse Williams...

Author: Anne Fleche
ISBN: 9780817308384
Format: Paperback
$65.34

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Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentaries

Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and...

Author: Simon Karlinsky ,  Michael Henry Heim
ISBN: 9780810114609
Format: Paperback
$105.47

This collection of Chekov's correspondence is weighted heavily toward the letters dealing with literary and intellectual...  Read More >>

A Systems Approach to Literature: Mythopoetics of Chekhov's Four Major Plays

A Systems Approach to Literature: Mythopoetics of Chekhov's...

Author: Vera Zubarev
ISBN: 9780313301933
Format: Hardback
$110.00

The analysis of the mythopoetics of a literary work involves the search for mythological archetypes, parallels,...  Read More >>

Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production Sourcebook

Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A Research and Production...

Author: William W. Demastes ,  Bernice Schrank
ISBN: 9780313288050
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Irish playwrights such as Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw and John Millington Synge have made enormous contributions...  Read More >>

Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation: Three Novels, Three Films

Stanley Kubrick and the Art of Adaptation: Three Novels,...

Author: Greg Jenkins
ISBN: 9780786402816
Format: Hardback
$105.47

Paring a novel into a two-hour film is an arduous task for even the best screenwriters and directors. This work...  Read More >>

Women Writing Women: An Anthology of Spanish-American Theater of the 1980s

Women Writing Women: An Anthology of Spanish-American...

Author: Teresa Cajiao Salas ,  Margarita Vargas
ISBN: 9780791432068
Format: Paperback
$79.07

This first anthology in English dedicated exclusively to Spanish-American women playwrights includes eight plays...  Read More >>

The Mammary Plays: How I Learned to Drive & The Mineola Twins

The Mammary Plays: How I Learned to Drive & The Mineola...

Author: Paula Vogel
ISBN: 9781559361446
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Latest plays by the author of The Baltimore Waltz.  Read More >>

Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Something Cloudy, Something Clear

Author: Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 9780811213110
Format: Paperback
$26.27

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Sophie Treadwell: A Research and Production Sourcebook

Sophie Treadwell: A Research and Production Sourcebook...

Author: Jerry Dickey
ISBN: 9780313293887
Format: Hardback
$96.00

Best remembered today for her acclaimed 1928 expressionist drama Machinal, based in part on the infamous murder...  Read More >>

War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds

Author: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780486295060
Format: Paperback
$17.99

An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others struggle to survive the invasion...  Read More >>

Euripides: Ion

Euripides: Ion

Author: K. H. Lee ,  Kevin Hargreaves Lee
ISBN: 9780856682452
Format: Paperback
$84.48

Ion is generally regarded as one of Euripides’ most attractive plays. A skilfully organised plot, charming characters,...  Read More >>

Collected Plays and Short Stories

Collected Plays and Short Stories

Author: Aurobindo Sri
ISBN: 9788170580898
Format: Hardback
$79.20

Sri Aurobindo, in his dramas, shows very pointedly, by the labor he has spent on personalities and situations set...  Read More >>

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