Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through Vase-Paintings

Comic Angels and Other Approaches to Greek Drama through...

Author: Oliver Taplin (Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Magdalen College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198147978
Format: Hardback
$215.95

A consideration of the significance of phlyax vases, and their relationships with Athenian drama.  Read More >>

Eugene O'Neill's Unfinished Threnody and Process of Invention in Four Cycle Plays

Eugene O'Neill's Unfinished Threnody and Process of...

Author: Martha Gilman Bower
ISBN: 9780773491991
Format: Paperback
$263.87

"This is a detalied analysis of Eugene O'Neill's complicated writing process as he created four of the plays in...  Read More >>

In Search of Christopher Marlowe

In Search of Christopher Marlowe

Author: A.D. Wraight ,  Virginia F. Stern
ISBN: 9781897763032
Format: Paperback
$65.87

This is a biography of Christopher Marlowe. A.D. Wraight is the author of The Legend of Hiram , Shakespeare: New...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Mortal Knowledge: A Reading Of The Tragedies

Shakespeare's Mortal Knowledge: A Reading Of The Tragedies...

Author: Zulfikar Ghose
ISBN: 9780333579107
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Presents an original reading of Shakespeare's tragedies ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", ""King Lear"" and ""Macbeth""....  Read More >>

The Politics of Life

The Politics of Life

Author: Velina Houston ,  Velina Hasu Houston
ISBN: 9781566390019
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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The Politics of Life

The Politics of Life

Author: Velina Houston ,  Velina Hasu Houston
ISBN: 9781566390002
Format: Hardback
$194.04

States that the Asian American woman playwright is compelled 'to mine her soul' and express the angst, fear, and...  Read More >>

The Stranger's Welcome: Oral Theory and the Aesthetics of the Homeric Hospitality Scene

The Stranger's Welcome: Oral Theory and the Aesthetics...

Author: Steve Reece
ISBN: 9780472103867
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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Kleist on Stage, 1804-1987

Kleist on Stage, 1804-1987

Author: William C. Reeve ,  William C. Reeve
ISBN: 9780773509412
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Since an account of every known staging would require several volumes, Kleist on Stage is limited to major productions...  Read More >>

The World of Adolescence: Literature, Society and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

The World of Adolescence: Literature, Society and Psychoanalytic...

Author: Beta Copley
ISBN: 9781853433108
Format: Paperback
$46.45

Beta Copley addresses three literary works with adolescence in mind: Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado...  Read More >>

Competences for School Managers

Competences for School Managers

Author: Derek Esp
ISBN: 9780749408176
Format: Paperback
$103.00

This study examines the development of competency approaches for school management in the UK. Using examples of...  Read More >>

La Escuela de Calderon: Estudio e Investigacion

La Escuela de Calderon: Estudio e Investigacion

Author: Ann L. Mackenzie
ISBN: 9780853230984
Format: Paperback
$79.20

This is a critical evaluation of the dramatic art and ideology of the School of Calderon. In the first part ideological...  Read More >>

La Escuela de Calderon: Estudio e Investigacion

La Escuela de Calderon: Estudio e Investigacion

Author: Ann L. Mackenzie
ISBN: 9780853233473
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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Oscar Wilde: The Double Image

Oscar Wilde: The Double Image

Author: George Woodcock
ISBN: 9780921689430
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Woodcock's biography is one of the first to enter deeply into the intellectual content of Wilde's work and life....  Read More >>

Chekhov for the Stage

Chekhov for the Stage

Author: Northwestern University Press ,  Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810110489
Format: Paperback
$55.44

Milton Ehre began translating Chekhov's plays to provide professional theatres with performance texts that capture...  Read More >>

New Music: a trilogy

New Music: a trilogy

Author: Reynolds Price
ISBN: 9781559360166
Format: Paperback
$28.91

These three plays - ""August Snow"", ""Night Dance"", and ""Better Days"" - trace the tangled path of the Avery...  Read More >>

In Their Own Words: Contemporary American Playwrights

In Their Own Words: Contemporary American Playwrights...

Author: David Savran
ISBN: 9780930452704
Format: Paperback
$50.03

Interviews with 20 leading American playwrights, each with a substantial introduction.  Read More >>

Notorious Identity: Materializing the Subject in Shakespeare

Notorious Identity: Materializing the Subject in Shakespeare...

Author: Linda Charnes
ISBN: 9780674627802
Format: Hardback
$166.32

Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, were significant figures before Shakespeare revitalized them on stage. When he...  Read More >>

Without God or Reason: Plays of Thomas Shadwell and Secular Ethics in the Restoration

Without God or Reason: Plays of Thomas Shadwell and...

Author: Christopher J. Wheatley
ISBN: 9780838752432
Format: Hardback
$82.67

This work argues that examinations of the didactic component of Restoration drama have been hindered by several...  Read More >>

Christopher Marlowe and Edward Alleyn

Christopher Marlowe and Edward Alleyn

Author: A.D. Wraight
ISBN: 9781897763001
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Rarely has so much new thinking on the Elizabethan theatrical period been presented in one volume. With inspired...  Read More >>

The Complete Works

The Complete Works

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Stanley W. Wells
ISBN: 9780191901126
Format: Leather / fine binding
$270.00

An entirely fresh edition of Shakespeare in which the original documents have been re-examined in every detail and...  Read More >>

Rereading Shepard: Contemporary Critical Essays on the Plays of Sam Shepard

Rereading Shepard: Contemporary Critical Essays on the...

Author: Leonard Wilcox
ISBN: 9780333538494
Format: Hardback
$448.77

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Drama by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and British Writers

Drama by Women to 1900: A Bibliography of American and...

Author: Gwenn Davis ,  Beverly Joyce
ISBN: 9781442639744
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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Rhetoric, Comedy, and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds

Rhetoric, Comedy, and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes'...

Author: Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan
ISBN: 9780195070170
Format: Hardback
$209.95

An assessment of the power of argument and its effects as used within Aristophanes' play. This treatise attempts...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Culture of Violence

Shakespeare's Culture of Violence

Author: D. Cohen
ISBN: 9780333570883
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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