Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw

Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought...

Author: Gareth Griffith
ISBN: 9780415082815
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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The Women of Shakespeare's Plays: Analysis of the Role of the Women in Select Plays with Plot Synopses and Selected One-Act Plays

The Women of Shakespeare's Plays: Analysis of the Role...

Author: Courtini Crump Wright
ISBN: 9780819188250
Format: Hardback
$179.52

Analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the female protagonists in Shakespeare's plays with regard to their impact,...  Read More >>

The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Casebook

The Chester Mystery Cycle: A Casebook

Author: Kevin J. Harty ,  Kevin J. Harty
ISBN: 9780815304975
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Reprints 14 major critical and performance studies of the last 30 years, and offers a comprehensive but unannotated...  Read More >>

Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen

Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage...

Author: Samuel Crowl
ISBN: 9780821410349
Format: Hardback
$54.95

In this lively study of both modern film and stage productions of Shakespeare, Samuel Crowl provides fascinating...  Read More >>

Staging the Impossible: The Fantastic Mode in Modern Drama

Staging the Impossible: The Fantastic Mode in Modern...

Author: Patrick Dennis Murphy
ISBN: 9780313272707
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Explores recent critical thinking on the relationship between the literary mode of the fantastic and the literary...  Read More >>

Post-Colonial English Drama: Commonwealth Drama since 1960

Post-Colonial English Drama: Commonwealth Drama since...

Author: Bruce King
ISBN: 9780333534175
Format: Hardback
$448.77

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Shakespeare and Ovid

Shakespeare and Ovid

Author: Jonathan Bate (University of Warwick Trinity Hall, Cambridge University of Warwick Trinity Hall, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781280765322
Format: Electronic book text
$212.31

Written by a leading Shakespeare scholar, this book is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between...  Read More >>

Confronting Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire: Essays in Critical Pluralism

Confronting Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire:...

Author: Philip Kolin
ISBN: 9780313266812
Format: Hardback
$170.00

the approaches of Feminism, Reader Response Criticism, Deconstructionism, Chaos and Anti-Chaos Theory, Translation...  Read More >>

Reading Shakespeare's Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics and Identity

Reading Shakespeare's Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics and...

Author: Christy Desmet
ISBN: 9780870238079
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Although current theory has discredited the idea of a coherent, transcedent self, Shakespeare's characters still...  Read More >>

The Women of Shakespeare's Plays: Analysis of the Role of the Women in Select Plays with Plot Synopses and Selected One-Act Plays

The Women of Shakespeare's Plays: Analysis of the Role...

Author: Courtini Crump Wright
ISBN: 9780819188267
Format: Paperback
$86.95

Analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the female protagonists in Shakespeare's plays with regard to their impact,...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Ovid

Shakespeare and Ovid

Author: Jonathan Bate (University of Warwick)
ISBN: 9786610765324
Format: Electronic book text
$233.53

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The Politics of Shakespeare

The Politics of Shakespeare

Author: Derek Cohen
ISBN: 9781283654197
Format: Electronic book text
$435.60

This book is an attempt to explore Shakespearean drama from the vantage point of the oppressed, invisible, and silent...  Read More >>

Le Romantisme aux enchères: Ducange, Pixerécourt, Hugo

Le Romantisme aux enchères: Ducange, Pixerécourt, Hugo...

Author: Marie-Pierre Le Hir
ISBN: 9789027217707
Format: Paperback
$108.68

"Reassessing the theoretical usefulness of the ""high/low"" culture perspective often found in writings on Romantic...  Read More >>

El metateatro y la dramática de Vargas Llosa: Hacia una poética del espectador

El metateatro y la dramática de Vargas Llosa: Hacia...

Author: Oscar Rivera-Rodas (University of Tennessee)
ISBN: 9789027217684
Format: Paperback
$108.68

"Proposes a new concept of ""the poetics of the theatrical reception"". This discussion focuses on the dramatic...  Read More >>

El metateatro y la dramática de Vargas Llosa: Hacia una poética del espectador

El metateatro y la dramática de Vargas Llosa: Hacia...

Author: Oscar Rivera-Rodas (University of Tennessee)
ISBN: 9789027217677
Format: Hardback
$227.70

"Proposes a new concept of ""the poetics of the theatrical reception"". This discussion focuses on the dramatic...  Read More >>

Le Romantisme aux encheres: Ducange, Pixerecourt, Hugo

Le Romantisme aux encheres: Ducange, Pixerecourt, Hugo...

Author: Marie-Pierre Le Hir
ISBN: 9789027217691
Format: Hardback
$227.70

Reassessing the theoretical usefulness of the high/low culture perspective often found in writings on Romantic...  Read More >>

Meaning by Shakespeare

Meaning by Shakespeare

Author: Terence Hawkes
ISBN: 9780415074513
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Terence Hawkes looks at King Lear, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Coriolanus, as examples from...  Read More >>

Hippolytos

Hippolytos

Author: Euripides ,  Robert Bagg
ISBN: 9780195072907
Format: Paperback
$30.95

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Japanese No Dramas

Japanese No Dramas

Author: Royall Tyler ,  Royall Tyler
ISBN: 9780140445398
Format: Paperback
$39.99

""No Plays"" are a major contribution to Japanese theatre. These lyric dramas evolved in the 14th century from ritual...  Read More >>

Writing and Inscription in Golden Age Drama

Writing and Inscription in Golden Age Drama

Author: Charles Oriel
ISBN: 9781557530745
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Spain's Golden Age represents a transition from a largely oral tradition to a world in which information and culture...  Read More >>

S. N. Behrman: A Research and Production Sourcebook

S. N. Behrman: A Research and Production Sourcebook...

Author: Robert F. Gross
ISBN: 9780313278525
Format: Hardback
$100.00

Gross here provides an immensely detailed record of the primary materials, published and unpublished, including...  Read More >>

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