Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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MAXnotes Literature Guides: Much Ado About Nothing

MAXnotes Literature Guides: Much Ado About Nothing
Author: ,Louva,Elizabeth Irvine ISBN: 9780878910335 Format: Paperback	$10.43
REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and... Read More >>

Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context

Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context...
Author: Patricia Parker ISBN: 9780226645858 Format: Paperback	$56.95
Arguing that attention to Shakespearean wordplay reveals unexpected linkages, not only within and between plays... Read More >>

Aphra Benn

Aphra Benn
Author: Susan Wiseman ISBN: 9780746307090 Format: Paperback	$44.88
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The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre

The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural...
Author: Louis Montrose ISBN: 9780226534831 Format: Paperback	$46.95
This work refigures the social and cultural context within which Elizabethan drama was created. It concentrates... Read More >>

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author: William Shakespeare , John Russell Brown ISBN: 9781557831811 Format: Paperback	$26.27
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King Lear

King Lear
Author: William Shakespeare , John Russell Brown ISBN: 9781557831798 Format: Paperback	$20.99
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The Tempest

The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare , John Russell Brown ISBN: 9781557831828 Format: Paperback	$20.99
Offering an ongoing theatrical commentary alongside the play of ""The Tempest"", this book is intended to help the... Read More >>

The Play of Daniel: Critical Essays

The Play of Daniel: Critical Essays
Author: Dunbar H. Ogden , A. Marcel J. Zijlstra ISBN: 9781879288775 Format: Paperback	$39.60
Tthe first medieval music-drama to be staged in a popular modern production by the legendary Noah Greenberg's New... Read More >>

Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare: Questions of Evidence

Textual and Theatrical Shakespeare: Questions of Evidence...
Author: Edward Pechter ISBN: 9780877455455 Format: Hardback	$99.00
Shakespeare commentary and performance today present us with a multiplicity of interpretations constructed and reconstructed... Read More >>

Fools and Folly

Fools and Folly
Author: Clifford Davidson ISBN: 9781879288690 Format: Hardback	$52.67
The Fool in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period was either a person who capitalized on his natural deficiencies,... Read More >>

Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon

Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon
Author: Lizbeth Goodman , W.R. Owens ISBN: 9780415135764 Format: Paperback	$58.99
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Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics

Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics
Author: Helen Gilbert , Joanne Tompkins ISBN: 9780415090247 Format: Paperback	$96.99
The first full length study to address the ways performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects... Read More >>

Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth

Witches and Jesuits: Shakespeare's Macbeth
Author: Garry Wills (Professor of History, Professor of History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois) ISBN: 9780195102901 Format: Paperback	$46.15
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Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics

Post-Colonial Drama: Theory, Practice, Politics
Author: Helen Gilbert , Joanne Tompkins ISBN: 9780415090230 Format: Hardback	$305.00
The first full length study to address the ways performance has been instrumental in resisting the continuing effects... Read More >>

Audience and Authority in the Modernist Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca

Audience and Authority in the Modernist Theater of Federico...
Author: C.C. Soufas ISBN: 9780817308179 Format: Hardback	$113.39
This work charts Lorca's specific attitudes towards theatre in relation to his historic audience. The author provides... Read More >>

Comic Agony: Mixed Impressions in the Modern Theatre

Comic Agony: Mixed Impressions in the Modern Theatre...
Author: Albert Bermel ISBN: 9780810114104 Format: Paperback	$44.75
A companion volume to """"Contradictory characters"""", this book analyzes the juxtaposition of the tragic and the... Read More >>

Jewish Contributions to Nineteenth-Century Arabic Theatre: Plays from Algeria and Syria - a Study and Texts

Jewish Contributions to Nineteenth-Century Arabic Theatre:...
Author: Shmuel Moreh (Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem) , Philip Sadgrove (Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester) ISBN: 9780199222742 Format: Hardback	$103.37
A study and edition of 19th Century Arabic plays, by an Algerian Jew and teachers at the Jewish school in Beirut.... Read More >>

Shakespeare's Alternative Tales

Shakespeare's Alternative Tales
Author: Leah Scragg ISBN: 9780582244849 Format: Paperback	$62.99
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American Feminist Playwrights: A Critical History

American Feminist Playwrights: A Critical History
Author: Sally Burke ISBN: 9780805778304 Format: Hardback	$121.44
Series Editor: Jordan Miller, University of Rhode Island.Each volume provides: dramatists, production dates of significant... Read More >>

Oxford Readings in Aristophanes

Oxford Readings in Aristophanes
Author: Erich Segal (Fellow, Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford) ISBN: 9780198721574 Format: Paperback	$111.95
A `must' for any serious student of Greek comedy. This book brings together for the first time all the most important... Read More >>

Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton

Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton...
Author: Swapan Chakravorty (Reader in English, Reader in English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta) ISBN: 9780198182665 Format: Hardback	$226.95
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Oxford Readings in Aristophanes

Oxford Readings in Aristophanes
Author: Erich Segal (Fellow, Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford) ISBN: 9780198721567 Format: Hardback	$231.95
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Modern American Drama: The Female Canon

Modern American Drama: The Female Canon
Author: June Schlueter ISBN: 9780838637074 Format: Paperback	$52.67
This collection presents twenty essays on twentieth-century plays by women, from Rachel Crothers to Meredith Monk,... Read More >>

Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage

Vietnam Protest Theatre: The Television War on Stage...
Author: Nora M. Alter ISBN: 9780253330321 Format: Hardback	$52.95
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Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?

Why Does Tragedy Give Pleasure?
Author: A. D. Nuttall ISBN: 9780198183716 Format: Hardback	$130.00
Why does tragedy give pleasure? Why do people who are neither wicked nor depraved enjoy watching plays about suffering... Read More >>

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