Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
hardcover. Explains how an adherent to the so-called Christian interpretation of Shakespeare can be a Marxist critic. Shakespeare's history plays, Siegel contends, were shaped by the Christian humanist ideology of the new Tudor aristocracy and are subtle works of art whose characters are complex creations, not mere spokesmen for social classes. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611470789
- ISBN
- 9781611470789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.08
€ 117.08
Paperback. This study examines the early history plays - the first tetralogy and "King John" - as plays, not only by analyzing their theatrical dimensions but also be connecting their staging with the playhouse as a social institution and with the theatricality of Elizabethan culture in the 1590s. Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 177
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349110377
- ISBN
- 9781349110377
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.13
€ 71.13
Hardcover. This text defines the Shakespearean canon, from "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" to "The Two Noble Kinsmen". It traces the influences on the drama of exile, examining the legal context of banishment (pursued against Catholics, gypsies and vagabonds) in early modern England. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 427.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333993446
- ISBN
- 9780333993446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Paperback. This books chronicles the ingenious ways of dying in Shakespeare, from suicide to murder, and from workaday dagger to baroque pie recipe. Illustrated with contemporary images, it establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking about early modern death. Num Pages: 192 pages, 80 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 210. .
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851242474
- ISBN
- 9781851242474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.45
€ 26.99
€ 20.45
Hardback. Explores and examines the theme of violence in the works of Shakespeare. Items covered include the rape of Lavinia, the killing of Cordelia and the murder of Desdemona. Num Pages: 160 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 1. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333570883
- ISBN
- 9780333570883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.12
€ 127.12
Hardback. Maria Jones argues for a dialogic understanding of Shakespeare's plays in performance relative to unresolved issues of modernity, in a study of modern productions on stage and screen. Num Pages: 225 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333971697
- ISBN
- 9780333971697
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312217211
- ISBN
- 9780312217211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.88
€ 127.88
Paperback. William Shakespeare's plays are a guide to how individuals react to the competing pressures of statecraft and personal ambition, fear and love. This book not only considers these "cases" in the plays themselves, but also in the sources available to Shakespeare - the techniques Shakespeare used to transform history into drama. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826418807
- ISBN
- 9780826418807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 22.68
€ 31.99
€ 22.68
Paperback. In this Very Short Introduction Bart Van Es analyses Shakespeare's comedic plays, picking out the family resemblances across these works. He considers their shared themes such as confusion and cross dressing, misguided love, twins and substitutions, and explores the bard's verbal artistry and wit. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 6 to 8 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 174 x 111. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198723356
- ISBN
- 9780198723356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.65
€ 13.99
€ 11.65
Hardcover. Shakespeare's Binding Language is an innovative, substantial but highly readable study exploring the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges and the other verbal and performative acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come. Num Pages: 648 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198757580
- ISBN
- 9780198757580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.94
€ 103.94
hardcover. Shakespeare's Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies - Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus - through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9781442650077
- ISBN
- 9781442650077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
Paperback. This book is a study of As You Like It, which shows how the play represents issues of interest to literate playgoers of its time, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349371662
- ISBN
- 9781349371662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Argument was the basis of Renaissance education - both rhetoric and dialectic permeated early modern Humanist culture, including drama. This study approaches Shakespeare's history plays by analyzing the use of argument in them and examining the importance of argument in Renaissance culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333970218
- ISBN
- 9780333970218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Hardcover. Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sovereign power against itself to engineer new forms of selfhood and relationality that escape the orbit of the nation-state. It is these new experiences that the book terms 'the life of the flesh'. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137275004
- ISBN
- 9781137275004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Pari Publishing Italy
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788895604015
- ISBN
- 9788895604015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.45
€ 12.45
paperback. Shakespeare's 'Whores' studies each use of the word 'whore' in Shakespeare's canon, focusing especially on the positive personal and social effects of female sexuality, as represented in several major female characters, from the goddess Venus, to the queen Cleopatra, to the cross-dressing Rosalind, and many others. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349439126
- ISBN
- 9781349439126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.54
€ 138.54
Paperback. The Windy Side of Care - A Reading of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing". Series: Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary S. 75 pages. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (XR) Revision / study guides. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 8. Weight: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange
- Number of pages
- 75
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906075019
- ISBN
- 9781906075019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.51
€ 14.99
€ 14.51
Paperback. Series: Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary S. Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 98
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906075125
- ISBN
- 9781906075125
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.55
€ 16.99
€ 15.55
Hardcover. This book is a study of As You Like It, which shows how the play represents issues of interest to literate playgoers of its time, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603318
- ISBN
- 9780230603318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Paperback. Presents a study of Shakespeare's intellectual preoccupations. This book offers guidance to Shakespeare's plays and sheds light on questions that engrossed Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity and relation, the proper status of imagination, and ethics and subjectivity. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300136296
- ISBN
- 9780300136296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.13
€ 19.99
€ 16.13
Hardback. During the Renaissance, moral philosophy came to permeate the minds of many, including the spectators that poured into Shakespeare's Globe theatre. Examining these strains of thought that formed the basis for humanism, Raspa delves into King Lear, Hamlet, among others to unlock what influence this had on both Shakespeare and his interpreters. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137581112
- ISBN
- 9781137581112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.33
€ 127.33
Paperback. In these brief, readable, and insightful essays, Fr. Milward delves into the poetry of Hopkins and his central ideas on God the Trinity, the self, nature and people. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Ave Maria University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- n
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932589214
- ISBN
- 9781932589214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.72
€ 24.72
Hardback. This enquiry into the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories assumes that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiographical outlook. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333633298
- ISBN
- 9780333633298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
hardcover. Series: Contemporary Interpretations of Shakespeare S. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1988th Edition
- SKU
- V9780333433560
- ISBN
- 9780333433560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42