Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23713 books were found.

A J. M. Synge Literary Companion

A J. M. Synge Literary Companion

Author: Edward A. Kopper Jr.
ISBN: 9780313251733
Format: Hardback
$96.00

In this 'literary companion,' Kopper includes excellent chapters devoted to (1) brief biography and chronology,...  Read More >>

Two Plays by Gabriel Marcel: The Lantern

Two Plays by Gabriel Marcel: The Lantern

Author: Gabriel Marcel ,  Katharine Rose Hanley
ISBN: 9780819170866
Format: Hardback
$66.95

This volume presents for the first time in book form, two exciting plays by Gabriel Marcel: a powerful one act drama,...  Read More >>

Electra

Electra

Author: Euripides ,  M. J. Cropp
ISBN: 9780856682391
Format: Paperback
$95.04

Electra  Read More >>

Selected Letters of Eugene O`Neill

Selected Letters of Eugene O`Neill

Author: Travis Bogard ,  Jackson Bryer
ISBN: 9780300043747
Format: Hardback
$134.95

This book--published on the centenary of Eugene O’Neill’s birth--contains the only comprehensive collection of his...  Read More >>

Friedrich von Schiller and the Drama of Human Existence

Friedrich von Schiller and the Drama of Human Existence...

Author: Alexej Ugrinsky
ISBN: 9780313262623
Format: Hardback
$131.00

This volume demonstrates that many scholars and stage directors firmly believe Schiller is very much a writer for...  Read More >>

Son of Oscar Wilde

Son of Oscar Wilde

Author: Vyvyan Holland ,  Merlin Holland
ISBN: 9780192821973
Format: Paperback
$14.95

First published in 1954, this account of Oscar Wilde's life written by his son tells of his childhood, and the Oscar...  Read More >>

Eugene O'Neill in Ireland: The Critical Reception

Eugene O'Neill in Ireland: The Critical Reception

Author: Edward L. Shaughnessy ,  L
ISBN: 9780313256271
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Shaughnessy's Eugene O'Neill in Ireland: The Critical Response is both more and less than a detailed study of how...  Read More >>

The Unknown O`Neill: Unpublished or Unfamiliar Writings of Eugene O`Neill

The Unknown O`Neill: Unpublished or Unfamiliar Writings...

Author: Travis Bogard ,  Eugene O'Neill
ISBN: 9780300039856
Format: Hardback
$128.95

Eugene O'Neill has long been celebrated as America's greatest playwright. This year, in the centennial of his birth,...  Read More >>

Staging O`Neill

Staging O`Neill

Author: Ronald H. Wainscott
ISBN: 9780300041521
Format: Hardback
$118.95

Eugene O'Neill's most exciting experiments with stage direction and design took place in his plays produced between...  Read More >>

English Renaissance Tragedy

English Renaissance Tragedy

Author: T McAlindon
ISBN: 9780333463659
Format: Paperback
$158.37

This book provides an introductory perspective on its subject together with studies of the major non-Shakespearean...  Read More >>

Euripides: Phoenician Women

Euripides: Phoenician Women

Author: Elizabeth Craik ,  Elizabeth M. Craik
ISBN: 9780856682315
Format: Paperback
$95.04

This rich and challenging play ranges over the supreme myth of Oidipous and his doomed family. With its brooding...  Read More >>

Time Holds the Mirror: A Study of Knowledge in Euripides' Hippolytus

Time Holds the Mirror: A Study of Knowledge in Euripides'...

Author: Cecelia Eaton Luschnig
ISBN: 9789004086012
Format: Paperback
$337.92

The work is limited to the question of knowledge in Euripides' Hippolytus and seeks to show that one of the major...  Read More >>

Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays: A Biographical Directory and Dramatic Index

Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays:...

Author: Bernard L. Peterson
ISBN: 9780313251900
Format: Hardback
$150.00

This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous...  Read More >>

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

Author: Oscar Wilde ,  Professor Russell Jackson (University of Birmingham, UK)
ISBN: 9780713630404
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.  Read More >>

Pedro Calderón de la Barca: El purgatorio de San Patricio

Pedro Calderón de la Barca: El purgatorio de San Patricio...

Author: Jose Maria Ruano de la Haza
ISBN: 9780853231264
Format: Paperback
$79.20

This is a critical edition of this play by Calderon, based primarily on the text of the ""primera parte"" of 1635,...  Read More >>

Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s: The Return of the Gods

Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s: The Return...

Author: D.G. Goodman
ISBN: 9780873324779
Format: Hardback
$211.07

In this book the author has translated five postwar experimental Japanese plays and recreated the artistic, social...  Read More >>

The Plays of Oscar Wilde

The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Author: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780394757889
Format: Paperback
$42.24

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Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning

Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning

Author: Leah Scragg
ISBN: 9780333414040
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill

Author: Travis Bogard (, Professor Emeritus of Dramatic Art,University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780195053418
Format: Hardback
$394.00

Professor Bogard traces the progress of O'Neills art from crude, one-act plays to the monumental tragedies of his...  Read More >>

Ben Jonson's ""Volpone, or the Fox""

Ben Jonson's ""Volpone, or the Fox""

Author: Ben Jonson
ISBN: 9780877549147
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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The Darkness We Carry: Drama of the Holocaust

The Darkness We Carry: Drama of the Holocaust

Author: Robert Skloot
ISBN: 9780299116644
Format: Paperback
$26.40

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Twentieth-Century English History Plays: From Shaw to Bond

Twentieth-Century English History Plays: From Shaw to...

Author: Niloufer Harben
ISBN: 9780333425176
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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