Literary studies: plays & playwrights books

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Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life

Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life

Author: Alisa Zhulina
ISBN: 9780810146358
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Emerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and wider socioeconomic changes, modern drama enacted vital critiques...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's Goddess: The Divine Feminine on the English Stage

Shakespeare's Goddess: The Divine Feminine on the English...

Author: J. Snodgrass ,  John Snodgrass
ISBN: 9781952536366
Format: Paperback
$52.67

In our culture, Shakespeare's works are classics and his characters have achieved mythical status. But what did...  Read More >>

The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624–2024

The Theatrical Legacy of Thomas Middleton, 1624–2024...

Author: William David Green ,  Anna L. Hegland
ISBN: 9781032556093
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume celebrates Thomas Middleton’s legacy as a dramatist, marking the 400th anniversary of Middleton’s most...  Read More >>

Gesten Der Entscheidung: Spielarten Von Souver�nit�t Im Theater Pierre Corneilles (1636-1643)

Gesten Der Entscheidung: Spielarten Von Souver�nit�t...

Author: Christian Reidenbach
ISBN: 9783111284729
Format: Hardback
$348.45

Inwiefern ist Corneilles Theater Theater der Entscheidung? In sechs Fallanalysen untersucht Christian Reidenbachs...  Read More >>

The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance and Appropriation

The Ethical Implications of Shakespeare in Performance...

Author: Louise Geddes ,  Kathryn Vomero Santos
ISBN: 9781399524919
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Redefines the ways in which performance studies and appropriation theory can be used to approach Shakespeare  Read More >>

Nethered Regions   an Anatomy of Mina Loy

Nethered Regions an Anatomy of Mina Loy

Author: Sara Crangle
ISBN: 9780748689385
Format: Hardback
$245.81

A uniquely comprehensive two-volume study of Mina Loy's relationship to the human body and soul  Read More >>

Beckett: A Study of his Plays

Beckett: A Study of his Plays

Author: John Fletcher ,  John Spurling
ISBN: 9781032746715
Format: Hardback
$179.00

First published in 1978, Beckett examines the plays of Beckett in the order in which they were written. The book...  Read More >>

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Blaise Doran
ISBN: 9798874812799
Format: Audio
$79.07

This second edition of Measure for Measure features a new section by Angela Stock, which focuses on recent scholarly...  Read More >>

Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare ,  Blaise Doran
ISBN: 9798874812805
Format: Audio
$79.07

This second edition of Measure for Measure features a new section by Angela Stock, which focuses on recent scholarly...  Read More >>

Racine’s Tragedies of Tyranny: Essays on Bajazet and Mithridate

Racine’s Tragedies of Tyranny: Essays on Bajazet and...

Author: Nicholas Hammond ,  Paul Hammond
ISBN: 9789004695139
Format: Hardback
$277.20

In his plays Bajazet and Mithridate Racine depicts the tragedies of characters who exercise tyranny or are the victims...  Read More >>

Hamlet

Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9798880905256
Format: Paperback
$25.05

Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the World's finest literature. Your favourite classic titles in...  Read More >>

Hamlet

Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9798880905249
Format: Hardback
$44.85

Hamlet's father, the king of Denmark, has died suddenly. But instead of grieving, his mother Gertrude has married...  Read More >>

Bad Godots: ‘Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel' and Other Interventions

Bad Godots: ‘Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel' and Other...

Author: S. E. Gontarski (Florida State University)
ISBN: 9781009180719
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element focuses on the machinery of that world, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process...  Read More >>

Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War

Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from...

Author: Erica Sheen (Professor of Literature and Film, Professor of Literature and Film, University of York)
ISBN: 9780198888611
Format: Hardback
$149.95

In this wide-ranging study, Erica Sheen explores the various ways in which Shakespeare, or the idea of Shakespeare,...  Read More >>

The Entremés for Performance: Translations of One-Act Plays from Golden Age Spain

The Entremés for Performance: Translations of One-Act...

Author: Kerry Wilks ,  Ian M. Borden
ISBN: 9781802074826
Format: Hardback
$297.56

These comic interludes highlight the politics, social commentary, and brilliant comedy of Spain's classical theater...  Read More >>

Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts: 'Cut Him Out in Little Stars'

Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts: 'Cut Him...

Author: Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine, USA) ,  Ariane Helou (UCLA, USA)
ISBN: 9781350343429
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare’s plays. This volume takes...  Read More >>

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky ,  Laurence Boswell
ISBN: 9781350500976
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Mad – Foolish – Ridiculous – I’ve been called many things. On an uneventful Wednesday in a drab Borough of East...  Read More >>

Tragicomedy

Tragicomedy

Author: David L. Hirst
ISBN: 9781032217086
Format: Paperback
$60.99

In this brief study, originally published in 1984, David Hirst examines the meaning of the term ‘tragicomedy’ by...  Read More >>

Comedy

Comedy

Author: L. J. Potts
ISBN: 9781032211367
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Originally published in 1949 this book is a study of comedy based on representative works of drama and narrative,...  Read More >>

Don't. Make. Tea.

Don't. Make. Tea.

Author: Rob Drummond
ISBN: 9781350501911
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Aeschylus' Oresteia: Translation and Theatrical Commentary

Aeschylus' Oresteia: Translation and Theatrical Commentary...

Author: Michael Ewans
ISBN: 9781032646961
Format: Paperback
$52.99

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L'Art Du Rire: Aktualisierungen Der Komodie in Der Franzosischen Gegenwartsdramatik

L'Art Du Rire: Aktualisierungen Der Komodie in Der Franzosischen...

Author: Christiane Muller-Luneschloss
ISBN: 9783825395650
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Die international gefeierte Autorin Yasmina Reza steht mit ihren Stucken Art (1994) und Le dieu du carnage (2006)...  Read More >>

A Performance History of The Fair Penitent

A Performance History of The Fair Penitent

Author: Elaine McGirr (University of Bristol)
ISBN: 9781009485968
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This Element is of the eighteenth-century performance history of The Fair Penitent demonstrates the interrelation...  Read More >>

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