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Shakespeare Without a Life

Shakespeare Without a Life
Author: Margreta de Grazia (Emerita Sheli Z. and Burton X. Rosenberg Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania) ISBN: 9780198812548 Format: Hardback	$58.95
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The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While...
Author: Farah Karim-Cooper ISBN: 9780861545346 Format: Hardback	$44.99
Shakespeare: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? Read More >>

Theatermania in Eighteenth-Century Europe: An Interdisciplinary and Contextual Approach to the History of Theater

Theatermania in Eighteenth-Century Europe: An Interdisciplinary...
Author: Sonia Bellavia ISBN: 9783110759235 Format: Hardback	$154.35
The phenomenon of 'theatermania' came to life in the new cultural climate that was an 18th-century hallmark. Theatermania... Read More >>

Politics of the Oberammergau Passion Play: Tradition as Trademark

Politics of the Oberammergau Passion Play: Tradition...
Author: Jan Mohr , Julia Stenzel ISBN: 9780367617400 Format: Hardback	$284.00
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the Oberammergau Passion play and its history from the 19th... Read More >>

Blasted with Antiquity: Old Age and the Consolations of Literature

Blasted with Antiquity: Old Age and the Consolations...
Author: David Ellis ISBN: 9780718897185 Format: Paperback	$56.93
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Perilous Journey in the Prose Fiction of Don Gutteridge

Perilous Journey in the Prose Fiction of Don Gutteridge...
Author: Brian T W Way ISBN: 9781989786888 Format: Paperback	$86.99
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Beyond The Canon’s Plays for Young Activists: Three Plays by Women from the Global Majority

Beyond The Canon’s Plays for Young Activists: Three...
Author: Mojisola Adebayo (Author, Queen Mary, University of London, UK) , Hannah Khalil ISBN: 9781350294998 Format: Paperback	$44.99
This anthology includes three ground-breaking UK plays from Black, Asian and Global Majority female writers alongside... Read More >>

Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel

Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel
Author: Tim Crouch (Author) ISBN: 9781350425125 Format: Paperback	$21.99
And that’s the moment when I leave. The moment when the jokes fail us. When I fail. I fail. This precise moment... Read More >>

William Shakespeare: A Brief Life

William Shakespeare: A Brief Life
Author: Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College, USA) , Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame USA) ISBN: 9781350156753 Format: Paperback	$29.99
Includes bibliographical references and index. Read More >>

Retrograde

Retrograde
Author: Ryan Calais Cameron ISBN: 9781350419001 Format: Paperback	$21.99
Examining a true event in 1950s Hollywood and the reality of iconic film legend Sidney Poitier's journey to stardom,... Read More >>

Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre: Paradigms of Being and Belonging (1959-1979)

Iranian Culture in Bahram Beyzaie’s Cinema and Theatre:...
Author: Saeed Talajooy (University of St Andrews, UK) ISBN: 9780755648665 Format: Hardback	$180.00
Since the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie’s oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of... Read More >>

My Shakespeare: A Director’s Journey through the First Folio

My Shakespeare: A Director’s Journey through the First...
Author: Greg Doran ISBN: 9781350330191 Format: Hardback	$50.00
This book charts the journey of Greg Doran through an account of his experiences either directing or producing each... Read More >>

William Shakespeare: A Brief Life

William Shakespeare: A Brief Life
Author: Paul Menzer (Mary Baldwin College, USA) , Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame USA) ISBN: 9781350156746 Format: Hardback	$90.00
Includes bibliographical references and index. Read More >>

History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911]

History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement...
Author: Mrs Georgie Sheldon ISBN: 9789357910170 Format: Book	$61.04
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Conversations with Beth Henley

Conversations with Beth Henley
Author: Jackson R. Bryer , Mary C. Hartig ISBN: 9781496844309 Format: Paperback	$57.99
With roots in the American South, Beth Henley has for four decades been a working playwright and screenwriter. These... Read More >>

Thicker Than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama

Thicker Than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in...
Author: Lauren Weindling ISBN: 9780817361013 Format: Paperback	$92.27
‘Blood is thicker than water’, goes the old proverb. But do common bloodlines in fact demand special duties or prescribe... Read More >>

A Companion to Aeschylus

A Companion to Aeschylus
Author: Jacques A. Bromberg (University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, USA) , Peter Burian (Duke University Durham, NC, USA) ISBN: 9781405188043 Format: Hardback	$280.95
A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS In A Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars... Read More >>

Conversations with Beth Henley

Conversations with Beth Henley
Author: Jackson R. Bryer , Mary C. Hartig ISBN: 9781496844293 Format: Hardback	$229.00
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Thicker Than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in Early Modern Drama

Thicker Than Water: Blood, Affinity, and Hegemony in...
Author: Lauren Weindling ISBN: 9780817321482 Format: Hardback	$290.40
‘Blood is thicker than water’, goes the old proverb. But do common bloodlines in fact demand special duties or prescribe... Read More >>

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again...
Author: Joanna Biggs ISBN: 9780063073104 Format: Hardback	$79.17
A piercing blend of memoir, criticism and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out... Read More >>

Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick: Plays, Painting and Performance

Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick: Plays, Painting and...
Author: Robin Simon ISBN: 9781913645441 Format: Hardback	$113.95
A study of theatrical portraiture through the work of William Hogarth and David Garrick. In 1770 Georg Christoph... Read More >>

WORTH

WORTH
Author: Joanne Lau ISBN: 9781350420571 Format: Paperback	$21.99
It's not stealing if it's from a dead person. Hours before their mother’s funeral, the Yeung siblings gather in... Read More >>

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard
Author: Jonathan Bate ISBN: 9780008167493 Format: Paperback	$24.99
‘Enlightening, moving’ SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan... Read More >>

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture
Author: Richard Meek (University of Hull) ISBN: 9781009280266 Format: Hardback	$227.70
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Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic...
Author: Emma Smith (Fellow and Tutor in English, Fellow and Tutor in English, Hertford College, University of Oxford) ISBN: 9780192886644 Format: Hardback	$47.95
Just a few hundred copies of the 1623 edition of Shakespeare's collected plays exist, making it one of the most... Read More >>

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