Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
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
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
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
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€ 10.89
€ 13.99
€ 10.89
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€ 22.93
€ 31.99
€ 22.93
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
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. 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
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€ 20.67
€ 26.99
€ 20.67
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 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. 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. A guide to the historical detail of Shakespeare's ten history plays. This text examines medieval English history according to the Tudor chroniclers who provided Shakespeare with his material; that history as understood by modern scholars; and the action of the plays themselves. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195123197
- ISBN
- 9780195123197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.49
€ 38.49
Hardcover. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403942678
- ISBN
- 9781403942678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Paperback. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes - the absolute authority claimed for God over the world, for the holy scriptures over the faithful, monarchs over subjects, fathers over wives and children, men over women. This book shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolute claims and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 202. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes - the absolute authority claimed for God over the world, for the holy scriptures over the faithful, monarchs over subjects, fathers over wives and children, men over women. This book shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolute claims and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 148 x 216 x 10. Weight: 202.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 164
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226306674
- ISBN
- 9780226306674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.00
€ 21.00
Hardcover. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes-of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. Greenblatt shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226306667
- ISBN
- 9780226306667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.23
€ 27.99
€ 23.23
Paperback. This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346759
- ISBN
- 9781137346759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardback. This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115118
- ISBN
- 9780230115118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516. Rethinking Historicism. 256 pages. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 19. Weight: 520.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748646135
- ISBN
- 9780748646135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.38
€ 145.38
Hardcover. This book throws new light on the issue of the dramatist's religious orientation by dismissing sectarian and one-sided theories, tackling the problem from the angle of the variegated Elizabethan context recently uncovered by modern historians and theatre scholars. It is argued that faith was a quest rather than a quiet certainty for the playwright. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230005259
- ISBN
- 9780230005259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04