Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England

The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame...

Author: Gail Kern Paster
ISBN: 9780801480607
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

Author: Ian McAuslan ,  Peter Walcot
ISBN: 9780199203017
Format: Paperback
$41.95

"This volume is the second to be published in the ""Greece & Rome Studies"" series. It collects together 17 studies...  Read More >>

The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England

The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame...

Author: Gail Kern Paster
ISBN: 9780801427763
Format: Hardback
$343.20

Men and women in early modern Europe experienced their bodies very differently from the ways in which contemporary...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Ovid

Shakespeare and Ovid

Author: Jonathan Bate
ISBN: 9780198129547
Format: Hardback
$145.00

This is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid. Examining...  Read More >>

Gay and Lesbian American Plays: An Annotated Bibliography

Gay and Lesbian American Plays: An Annotated Bibliography...

Author: Ken Furtado ,  Nancy Hellner
ISBN: 9780810826892
Format: Hardback
$124.87

Documents the explosion of contemporary gay and lesbian theater, and provides a single reference for American gay...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

Author: Ian McAuslan ,  Peter Walcot
ISBN: 9780199203000
Format: Hardback
$105.00

The second in the series Greece and Rome Studies, collects together 17 articles on Greek Tragedy published between...  Read More >>

Modern Australian Plays

Modern Australian Plays

Author: Elizabeth Webby
ISBN: 9780424001999
Format: Paperback
$13.95

Second edition of a critical monograph for Year 12 students and university undergraduates. This revised and expanded...  Read More >>

Doctor Faustus, A- and B- Texts 1604: Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus, A- and B- Texts 1604: Christopher Marlowe...

Author: Eric Rasmussen ,  Stephen Bevington
ISBN: 9780719016431
Format: Paperback
$33.61

This volume in the ""Revel Plays"" series, offers reading editions, with modern spelling, of the 1604 and 1616 editions...  Read More >>

The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's Problem Comedies

The Myth of Deliverance: Reflections on Shakespeare's...

Author: Northrop Frye ,  A.C. Hamilton
ISBN: 9780802077813
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Frye draws on the Aristotelian notion of reversal, or peripeteia, to analyse the three plays commonly known as the...  Read More >>

Shakespearean Criticism

Shakespearean Criticism

Author: Sandra L. Williamson
ISBN: 9780810379695
Format: Hardback
$1275.12

Part of a series which provides the stage history of each Shakespeare play from the 18th century to the present....  Read More >>

Blendung und Wandlung: Lessings Dramen in Psychologischer Sicht

Blendung und Wandlung: Lessings Dramen in Psychologischer...

Author: Ilse Pracht-Fitzell
ISBN: 9780820413747
Format: Hardback
$205.79

Lessing's plays are examined in an analysis based solely upon the complex psychology of C.G. Jung and his school....  Read More >>

Arthurian and Other Studies presented to Shunichi Noguchi

Arthurian and Other Studies presented to Shunichi Noguchi...

Author: Takashi Suzuki ,  Toshiyuki Takamiya
ISBN: 9780859913805
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Essays on Arthurian themes, on Beowulf, Chaucer and Shakespeare, and textual studies of Gower and others.  Read More >>

Frogs

Frogs

Author: Aristophanes ,  Sir Kenneth J. Dover
ISBN: 9780198147732
Format: Hardback
$150.00

A new commentary on Aristophanes' Frogs. The book includes the complete Greek text, a comprehensive introduction,...  Read More >>

European Shakespeares. Translating Shakespeare in the Romantic Age: Selected papers from the conference on Shakespeare Translation in the Romantic Age, Antwerp, 1990

European Shakespeares. Translating Shakespeare in the...

Author: Dirk Delabastita (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur) ,  Lieven D’hulst (University of Antwerp)
ISBN: 9789027221308
Format: Hardback
$238.05

"A collection of papers presented at a conference on Shakespeare translations of the 18th and 19th centuries. Coverage...  Read More >>

Early English Drama: An Anthology

Early English Drama: An Anthology

Author: John C. Coldewey
ISBN: 9780824054656
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This collection of plays from late-Medieval England includes a rich selection of non-cycle plays and morality plays...  Read More >>

Corneille: Rodogune  and  Nicomede

Corneille: Rodogune and Nicomede

Author: Derek A. Watts
ISBN: 9780729303460
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Part of a series of literary commentaries that are criticisms on French literature in the English language. Each...  Read More >>

As You Like it

As You Like it

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Alan Brissenden
ISBN: 9780198129486
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This edition of ""As You Like It"" is accompanied by an introduction which discusses the known history of the play's...  Read More >>

The Masks of King Lear

The Masks of King Lear

Author: Rosenberg
ISBN: 9780874134827
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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Susan Glaspell: A Research and Production Sourcebook

Susan Glaspell: A Research and Production Sourcebook...

Author: Mary Elizabeth Papke
ISBN: 9780313273834
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Co-founder of the Provincetown Players and one of its leading writers, Susan Glaspell won the Pulitzer Prize for...  Read More >>

Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen

Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen

Author: Victor G Kiernan
ISBN: 9780860913924
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Attempts to see Shakespeare both as a unique dramatist, and as an Englishman keenly sensitive to the profound changes,...  Read More >>

Telling Tales: New One-Act Plays

Telling Tales: New One-Act Plays

Author: Eric Lane
ISBN: 9780140482379
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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Plautus Curculio

Plautus Curculio

Author: John Wright ,  John Wright
ISBN: 9780806125077
Format: Paperback
$36.30

A bilingual edition of Plautus's ""Curculio"". In this revision of the American Philological Association Latin edition,...  Read More >>

Die Konzeption Des Neuen Menschen in Ernst Barlachs Dramatischem Schaffen

Die Konzeption Des Neuen Menschen in Ernst Barlachs...

Author: Jochen Richter
ISBN: 9780820415529
Format: Hardback
$139.79

Das Konzept des Neuen Menschen steht im Zentrum des deutschen expressionistischen Dramas zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts....  Read More >>

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