Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

The Complete Plays of Sophocles

The Complete Plays of Sophocles

Author: Sophocles
ISBN: 9780553213546
Format: Paperback
$18.45

Collects seven ancient Greek plays about mythological figures such as Oedipus, Antigone, Electra, and Ajax.  Read More >>

Stages Of History

Stages Of History

Author: Phyllis Rackin
ISBN: 9780415058391
Format: Paperback
$89.63

Offers a fresh approach to Shakespeare's English history plays, examining them in the context of a Renaissance world...  Read More >>

Stages Of History

Stages Of History

Author: Phyllis Rackin
ISBN: 9780415058384
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Offers a fresh approach to Shakespeare's English history plays, examining them in the context of a Renaissance world...  Read More >>

Greek Tragedy: An Introduction

Greek Tragedy: An Introduction

Author: Bernhard Zimmermann ,  Thomas Marier
ISBN: 9780801841194
Format: Paperback
$71.28

In lively and thorough summaries of the major works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Zimmermann examines...  Read More >>

Shakespearean Tragedy

Shakespearean Tragedy

Author: A. Bradley ,  John Bayley
ISBN: 9780140530193
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Approaches to Teaching Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Approaches to Teaching Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Author: June Schlueter ,  Enoch Brater
ISBN: 9780873525428
Format: Paperback
$85.99

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts....  Read More >>

The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw

The Playwrighting Self of Bernard Shaw

Author: John A. Bertolini
ISBN: 9780809316502
Format: Hardback
$76.56

Bernard Shaw claimed that he built his plays from ""atoms of dust."" Showing where these atoms are and explaining...  Read More >>

Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies

Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies

Author: Stanley Weintraub
ISBN: 9780271003054
Format: Hardback
$152.99

This annual records the conference held in the honour of the 100th anniversary of the production of Shaw's first...  Read More >>

Nō and Bunraku: Two Forms of Japanese Theatre

Nō and Bunraku: Two Forms of Japanese Theatre

Author: Donald Keene
ISBN: 9780231074193
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Donald Keene combines informative works on two forms of classical Japanese theater into a single volume. The No...  Read More >>

The Theater of Franz Xaver Kroetz

The Theater of Franz Xaver Kroetz

Author: Ingeborg C Walther
ISBN: 9780820413976
Format: Hardback
$166.19

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Die Substanzsteuern

Die Substanzsteuern

Author: Gerd Rose ,  Gerd Rose
ISBN: 9783409508353
Format: Paperback
$158.37

Schwerpunkte der Darstellung sind neben der reformierten Erbschaft- und Schenkungsteuer die Regelungen des Bewertungsgesetzes...  Read More >>

Unternehmen im Wettbewerb: Investitions-, Wettbewerbs- und Wachstumstheorie als Einheit

Unternehmen im Wettbewerb: Investitions-, Wettbewerbs-...

Author: Horst Albach
ISBN: 9783409138987
Format: Paperback
$158.37

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Congreve, the Drama, and the Printed Word

Congreve, the Drama, and the Printed Word

Author: Julie Stone Peters
ISBN: 9780804717519
Format: Hardback
$95.99

Theatre and print began their tense relations and imperfect alliance in the late 17th century. This text focuses...  Read More >>

Poems Are Hard to Read

Poems Are Hard to Read

Author: William Meredith
ISBN: 9780472064274
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Gathers together a half-century of prose pieces written by this esteemed poet  Read More >>

Bargains with Fate: Psychological Crises and Conflicts in Shakespeare and His Plays

Bargains with Fate: Psychological Crises and Conflicts...

Author: Bernard J. Paris
ISBN: 9780306437601
Format: Hardback
$145.17

The enduring appeal of Shakespeare's works derives largely from the fact that they contain brilliantly drawn characters...  Read More >>

The Nativity: By Arnoul Greban

The Nativity: By Arnoul Greban

Author: Arnoul Greban ,  Shelley Sewall
ISBN: 9780809316465
Format: Hardback
$59.40

The Nativity by Arnoul Greban is a fifteenth-century French Christmas play, based on an orthodox interpretation...  Read More >>

Dog & Crow

Dog & Crow

Author: Michael Springate
ISBN: 9780920717189
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Based on Pound's sojourn in fascist Italy, the play spans the years 1928 to 1946 and moves from Italy to America....  Read More >>

Parallel Lives: Spanish and English Drama, 1580-1680

Parallel Lives: Spanish and English Drama, 1580-1680...

Author: Louise Fothergill-Payne ,  Peter Fothergill-Payne
ISBN: 9780838751947
Format: Hardback
$109.97

In Parallel Lives, the contributors observe particular Spanish and English plays from the perspective of the numerous...  Read More >>

Received Truths: Bertolt Brecht and the Problems of Gestus and Musical Meaning

Received Truths: Bertolt Brecht and the Problems of...

Author: Kenneth Fowler
ISBN: 9780404640514
Format: Hardback
$148.78

Focuses on the theoretical foundations of the music-text relationship in the works of Brecht and his composers,...  Read More >>

Studies in Chinese-Western Comparative Drama

Studies in Chinese-Western Comparative Drama

Author: Yun-tong Luk
ISBN: 9789622014510
Format: Paperback
$41.37

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Approaches to Teaching Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Approaches to Teaching Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Author: June Schlueter ,  Enoch Brater
ISBN: 9780873525411
Format: Hardback
$99.00

Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 1059-1133) addresses a broad range of literary texts....  Read More >>

The New Dramatists of Mexico, 1967-1985

The New Dramatists of Mexico, 1967-1985

Author: Ronald D. Burgess
ISBN: 9780813117270
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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Sephardic Playwrights of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in Amsterdam

Sephardic Playwrights of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth...

Author: Haydee Litovsky
ISBN: 9780819178435
Format: Hardback
$118.95

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Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism

Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism

Author: Gayle Austin
ISBN: 9780472064298
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Looks at post-war American drama by women, bridging the gap between theatrical theory and feminist theory  Read More >>

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