Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

23308 books were found.

Investigating Drama

Investigating Drama

Author: Kenneth Pickering ,  Bill Horrocks
ISBN: 9781032482804
Format: Hardback
$189.00

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Understanding David Mamet: With a New Preface

Understanding David Mamet: With a New Preface

Author: Brenda Murphy
ISBN: 9781643363820
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Understanding Sam Shepard: With a New Preface

Understanding Sam Shepard: With a New Preface

Author: James A. Crank
ISBN: 9781643363738
Format: Paperback
$44.00

Investigates the notoriously complex dramatic world of Sam Shepard, one of America’s most prolific, thoughtful,...  Read More >>

Moonset

Moonset

Author: Maryam Hamidi
ISBN: 9781350405196
Format: Paperback
$21.99

""Plays for young people agr 13+""--Cover.  Read More >>

Cornelia Street

Cornelia Street

Author: Simon Stephens (Author) ,  Mark Eitzel
ISBN: 9781350401464
Format: Paperback
$21.99

I came to New York when I was seventeen. I had all these ideas about how my life was gonna turn out. When I think...  Read More >>

Don Juan: Variations on a Theme

Don Juan: Variations on a Theme

Author: John Smeed
ISBN: 9780367721695
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Taming of the Shrew

Taming of the Shrew

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Amy Freed
ISBN: 9780866987851
Format: Paperback
$26.27

""This translation reactivates the original story of insensitive gags and uneasy politics, blowing away the dust...  Read More >>

The Hero's Journey in Film: A Mythic Reading of Twelve Hollywood Movies

The Hero's Journey in Film: A Mythic Reading of Twelve...

Author: Richard Dance
ISBN: 9798887470092
Format: Paperback
$39.47

The Hero's Journey in Film interprets twelve Hollywood movies in a mythical context, using Joseph Campbell's model...  Read More >>

Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Amy Freed
ISBN: 9780866987752
Format: Paperback
$26.27

""One of Shakespeare's goriest plays, Titus Andronicus traces the fall of the Andronicus family in ancient Rome....  Read More >>

La Comedie Des Philosophes: Et Autres Textes

La Comedie Des Philosophes: Et Autres Textes

Author: Olivier Ferret ,  Charles Palissot De Montenoy
ISBN: 9782406136644
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This work brings together all the writings related to the dispute that followed the first performance of the play...  Read More >>

Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature

Shakespeare, Memory, and Modern Irish Literature

Author: Nicholas Taylor-Collins
ISBN: 9781526149619
Format: Hardback
$195.00

Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English...  Read More >>

El Hamlet de Moratín (1798): El Neoclasicismo Frente Al Mito: Sexo Y Género En La Tragedia Shakespeariana

El Hamlet de Moratín (1798): El Neoclasicismo Frente...

Author: María José Marín Pérez
ISBN: 9783034346313
Format: Paperback
$85.39

Estudio en profundidad del lenguaje de índole sexual en la primera traducción española de Hamlet, de Leandro Fernández...  Read More >>

Comment En Finir Avec La Revolution: L'Apotheose de Charlotte Corday Et d'Elisabeth de France Dans Le Theatre de Thermidor

Comment En Finir Avec La Revolution: L'Apotheose de...

Author: Sylvie Dangeville
ISBN: 9782406136293
Format: Hardback
$229.68

Through these two royalist tragedies written in 1797, the authors intended to pay homage to two martyrs of the French...  Read More >>

La Comedie Des Philosophes: Et Autres Textes

La Comedie Des Philosophes: Et Autres Textes

Author: Olivier Ferret ,  Charles Palissot De Montenoy
ISBN: 9782406136651
Format: Hardback
$266.64

This work brings together all the writings related to the dispute that followed the first performance of the play...  Read More >>

The New Wave of British Women Playwrights: 2008 – 2021

The New Wave of British Women Playwrights: 2008 – 2021...

Author: Elisabeth Angel-Perez ,  Aloysia Rousseau
ISBN: 9783110796223
Format: Hardback
$154.35

Today's British stages resound with powerfully innovative voices and, very often, these voices have been those of...  Read More >>

Leben und Tod Königs Richard des zweyten

Leben und Tod Königs Richard des zweyten

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Christoph Martin Wieland
ISBN: 9789356780705
Format: Paperback
$52.06

Leben und Tod Königs Richard des zweyten, wurde während der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte als bedeutendes Werk...  Read More >>

Conversations with Terrence McNally

Conversations with Terrence McNally

Author: Raymond-Jean Frontain
ISBN: 9781496843227
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Collects nineteen interviews with the celebrated playwright. In these interviews, one hears Terrence McNally reflect...  Read More >>

Modernist Disguise: Masquerade in Modern Performance and Visual Culture

Modernist Disguise: Masquerade in Modern Performance...

Author: Ron J. Popenhagen
ISBN: 9781474470063
Format: Paperback
$57.99

This book highlights that masquerade can be regarded as a distinct genre of performance activity that employs elements...  Read More >>

Radio Plays: The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The Prince of Africa; Writing Fiction; A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris; Hotel Cristobel; A Long Way from Home; Dinner in the Village; Somewhere in England

Radio Plays: The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The...

Author: Caryl Phillips ,  Bénédicte Ledent (University of Liège, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781350300057
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation. An award-winning author best known for his...  Read More >>

Caixa De Pandora

Caixa De Pandora

Author: Oliveira Emily
ISBN: 9786526602591
Format: Paperback
$29.38

O elfo Leer foi jogado pelo seu próprio pai em um abismo. Desde então, ele terá que aprender a sobreviver e viver....  Read More >>

The Theatre of Simon Stephens

The Theatre of Simon Stephens

Author: Jacqueline Bolton (University of Lincoln, UK) ,  Kevin J Wetmore Jr (Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles USA)
ISBN: 9781350249608
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Simon Stephens is one of Europe’s pre-eminent living playwrights. Since the beginning of his career in 1998, Stephens’s...  Read More >>

Conversations with Terrence McNally

Conversations with Terrence McNally

Author: Raymond-Jean Frontain
ISBN: 9781496843210
Format: Hardback
$229.00

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Antonin Artaud and the Healing Practices of Language: How Life Matters in Artaud’s Later Writings

Antonin Artaud and the Healing Practices of Language:...

Author: Dr. Joeri Visser (Helinium School, Rotterdam, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781501372360
Format: Paperback
$59.99

The life of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was tormented by physical and mental illnesses. Already in his earlier works,...  Read More >>

White People in Shakespeare: Essays on Race, Culture and the Elite

White People in Shakespeare: Essays on Race, Culture...

Author: Arthur L. Little, Jr. (UCLA, USA) ,  Dr David Ruiter (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)
ISBN: 9781350285668
Format: Paperback
$44.99

What part did Shakespeare play in the construction of a ‘white people’ and how has his work been enlisted to define...  Read More >>

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