Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy

The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits...
Author: Oliver Taplin (University Lecturer in Greek and Latin Literature at Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow, University Lecturer in Greek and Latin Literature at Oxford, and Tutorial Fellow, Magdalen College) ISBN: 9780198144861 Format: Paperback	$99.95
The visual effect of the staging of Aeschylus' plays was an essential part of their impact. All that survives today... Read More >>

No Exit and Three Other Plays

No Exit and Three Other Plays
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre ISBN: 9780679725169 Format: Paperback	$29.99
English translations of four plays which dramatize the theme of man's responsibility for his own actions, by the... Read More >>

Students' Guide to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Students' Guide to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Author: Peter H. Burgess , Ursula Chok ISBN: 9781871948332 Format: Paperback	$12.91
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Twayne's New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare: All's Well That Ends Well

Twayne's New Critical Introductions to Shakespeare:...
Author: Sheldon Zitner ISBN: 9780805787184 Format: Hardback	$116.16
This series offers fresh insights to Shakespeare with: -- In-depth book-length treatments of the plays and poems... Read More >>

Shakespeare for Children: The Story of Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare for Children: The Story of Romeo and Juliet...
Author: Cass Foster , Lisa Molyneux ISBN: 9780961985332 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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Theater Yearbook. the Best Plays of 1988-1989

Theater Yearbook. the Best Plays of 1988-1989
Author: Robert Burns Mantle , Otis L. Guernsey ISBN: 9781557830562 Format: Hardback	$97.55
Covers plays produced in New York, awards, details of productions, prizes, people, and publications, as well as... Read More >>

Inventing the Barbarian

Inventing the Barbarian
Author: Edith Hall ISBN: 9780198148951 Format: Hardback	$95.00
The aim of this treatise is to explain the singular fascination ancient Greek tragedians felt for the non-Greek,... Read More >>

Act One: An Autobiography

Act One: An Autobiography
Author: Moss Hart , Woody Allen ISBN: 9780312032722 Format: Paperback	$52.77
One of the most celebrated theater books of the century and a memorial to a bygone age--filled with the wonder of... Read More >>

Text and Supertext in Ibsen’s Drama

Text and Supertext in Ibsen’s Drama
Author: Brian Johnston ISBN: 9780271027241 Format: Paperback	$81.71
Brian Johnston's approach to Ibsen, now well known, is unlike any other. Johnston sees Ibsen's twelve realist plays... Read More >>

Euripides’ Medea: The Incarnation of Disorder

Euripides’ Medea: The Incarnation of Disorder
Author: Emily McDermott ISBN: 9780271026534 Format: Paperback	$79.07
Euripides' Medea, produced in the year that the Peloponnesian War began, presents the first in a parade of vivid... Read More >>

Shakespearian Constitutions

Shakespearian Constitutions
Author: Jonathan Bate ISBN: 9780198117490 Format: Hardback	$155.00
This critical study of Shakespeare's pervasive presence in English cultural life in the 18th and early 19th centuries... Read More >>

Best Short Plays 1988

Best Short Plays 1988
Author: Various Authors , Ramon Delgado ISBN: 9781557830258 Format: Hardback	$63.23
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The Presence of the Past in Modern American Drama

The Presence of the Past in Modern American Drama
Author: Patricia R. Schroeder ISBN: 9780838633328 Format: Hardback	$76.33
This study focuses on Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams, who, within the overall... Read More >>

Shakespeare in His Context: The Constellated Globe

Shakespeare in His Context: The Constellated Globe
Author: Muriel Bradbrook , Frank W. Bradbrook ISBN: 9780389208778 Format: Hardback	$179.95
'As we expect from Bradbrook, always a pleasantly readable scholar, these papers consistently convey rich, penetrating,... Read More >>

A Life of William Inge: Strains of Triumph

A Life of William Inge: Strains of Triumph
Author: Ralph F. Voss ISBN: 9780700604425 Format: Paperback	$52.67
A biography of William Inge, the American playwright whose Broadway successes included """"Picnic"""" and """"Bus... Read More >>

Shakespeare and the New Disease: The Dramatic Function of Syphilis in ""Troilus and Cressida"", ""Measure for Measure"" and ""Timon of Athens""

Shakespeare and the New Disease: The Dramatic Function...
Author: Greg W. Bentley ISBN: 9780820408170 Format: Hardback	$102.83
This book makes several important contributions to our knowledge of Shakespeare and the Renaissance. First, Bentley's... Read More >>

Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination

Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination
Author: Jonathan Bate (King Alfred Professor of English Literature, King Alfred Professor of English Literature, University of Liverpool) ISBN: 9780198129943 Format: Paperback	$65.95
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Shakespearean Negotiations: No. 84

Shakespearean Negotiations: No. 84
Author: Stephen Greenblatt ISBN: 9780520061606 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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File On Churchill

File On Churchill
Author: Linda Fitzsimmons , Simon Trussler ISBN: 9780413147301 Format: Hardback	$70.00
This is a study of the work of Caryl Churchill who wrote ""Fen"", ""Top Girls"" and ""Serious Money"". Linda Fitzsimmons... Read More >>

The Cold War Romance of Lillian Hellman and John Melby

The Cold War Romance of Lillian Hellman and John Melby...
Author: Robert P. Newman ISBN: 9780807818152 Format: Hardback	$105.60
Newman presents the story of author Lillian Hellman's intense relationship with Foreign Service officer John Melby--a... Read More >>

Cambridge: Volume 1: the Records; Volume 2: Editorial Apparatus

Cambridge: Volume 1: the Records; Volume 2: Editorial...
Author: Alan Nelson ISBN: 9780802057518 Format: Hardback	$535.92
The Records of Early English Drama volumes make available historical transcripts that provide evidence of early... Read More >>

Timon of Athens

Timon of Athens
Author: A. D Nuttall ISBN: 9780805787153 Format: Paperback	$73.92
This series offers fresh insights to Shakespeare with: -- In-depth book-length treatments of the plays and poems... Read More >>

The Oresteia

The Oresteia
Author: Aeschylus , David Grene ISBN: 9780226007724 Format: Paperback	$42.95
One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, this is one of the... Read More >>

Autour de Racine: Studies in Intertextuality

Autour de Racine: Studies in Intertextuality
Author: Richard E. Goodkin ISBN: 9780300045390 Format: Paperback	$79.20
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Gil Vicente and the Development of the Comedia

Gil Vicente and the Development of the Comedia
Author: René Pedro Garay ISBN: 9780807892343 Format: Paperback	$62.70
Through a formalist, structuralist analysis, Rene Pedro Garay defines the Vicente comedias against their socio-historical... Read More >>

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