Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences

Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for...

Author: Dr Jennifer Flaherty (Georgia College, USA) ,  Deborah Uman (Weber State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350320260
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Liberating Shakespeare demonstrates the cultural and pedagogical importance of adapting Shakespeare for young adults,...  Read More >>

Medieval English Theatre 44

Medieval English Theatre 44

Author: Meg Twycross ,  Sarah Carpenter
ISBN: 9781843846499
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Newest research into drama and performance of the Middle Ages and Tudor period.  Read More >>

French Drama of the Revolutionary Years

French Drama of the Revolutionary Years

Author: Graham E. Rodmell
ISBN: 9781032535746
Format: Hardback
$210.00

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The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and Politics

The Aesthetic Exception: Essays on Art, Theatre, and...

Author: Tony Fisher
ISBN: 9781526170163
Format: Hardback
$195.00

The aesthetic exception critically re-evaluates the relation between art and politics by challenging longstanding...  Read More >>

Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three: Six Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely

Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three: Six...

Author: Wonder Fools ,  Tim Crouch (Author)
ISBN: 9781350411104
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Six exciting new plays by some of the best artists working in the UK today written with and for young people. Created...  Read More >>

Bold Conscience: Luther to Shakespeare to Milton

Bold Conscience: Luther to Shakespeare to Milton

Author: Joshua R. Held
ISBN: 9780817321550
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Explores how the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action. The book chronicles...  Read More >>

The Passionate Pilgrim

The Passionate Pilgrim

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9789357386272
Format: Paperback
$46.68

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Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England

Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England...

Author: Heather James (University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9781108720717
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Addressing early modern scholars, classicists, historians, literary critics and scholars of imitation and adaptation...  Read More >>

Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World: Rethinking Female Adolescence

Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World: Rethinking...

Author: Caroline Bicks (University of Maine, Orono)
ISBN: 9781108928717
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Mining a variety of genres from Shakespearean plays and medical texts to autobiographical writings, Bicks demonstrates...  Read More >>

The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy

The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's...

Author: Dr Emily Shortslef (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Kentucky)
ISBN: 9780192868480
Format: Hardback
$153.95

The first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama, arguing that poetic forms of complaint--expressions...  Read More >>

My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar

My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar

Author: Valentina Andrade ,  Elizabeth Alvarado
ISBN: 9781350423251
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Winner of a OneOff Special Award for 2023 at the Offies Awards 2024 Finalist for Best Production (Plays) at the...  Read More >>

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Author: Graham Saunders (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Maggie B Gale
ISBN: 9781032468174
Format: Paperback
$81.99

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Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

Author: Graham Saunders (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Maggie B Gale
ISBN: 9781032029733
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Time in Romantic Theatre

Time in Romantic Theatre

Author: Frederick Burwick
ISBN: 9783030960810
Format: Paperback
$369.57

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Five Children and It

Five Children and It

Author: Marietta Kirkbride ,  Edith Nesbit
ISBN: 9781350423121
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Character and the Supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe

Character and the Supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe...

Author: Kenneth Usongo
ISBN: 9780367710934
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe appropriate supernatural devices like prophecies, dreams, beliefs,...  Read More >>

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet: Word, Music, and Dance

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet: Word, Music,...

Author: Jonas Kellermann
ISBN: 9781032028606
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Dramaturgies of Love in Romeo and Juliet offers a unique and highly innovative transdisciplinary discussion of ‘unspeakable’...  Read More >>

Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly, Law and Medicine, 1500-1640

Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern...

Author: Alice Equestri
ISBN: 9781032054667
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt: Adapt, Interpret, Mutate

Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt: Adapt,...

Author: Timothy Day
ISBN: 9780367707903
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book brings together research on Shakespeare, biosemiotics, ecocriticism, epigenetics and actor network theory...  Read More >>

The Shakespearean International Yearbook: 19: Special Section, Shakespeare and Refugees

The Shakespearean International Yearbook: 19: Special...

Author: Tom Bishop ,  Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University)
ISBN: 9781032157443
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Publishing its nineteenth volume, The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Accentism

Shakespeare and Accentism

Author: Adele Lee
ISBN: 9780367676766
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This collection explores the consequences of accentism in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures,...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals

Author: Karen Raber (University of Mississippi, USA) ,  Holly Dugan
ISBN: 9780367522599
Format: Paperback
$92.99

In this Handbook, Karen Raber and Holly Dugan delve deep into Shakespeare’s World to illuminate and understand the...  Read More >>

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