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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Antony Sher's account - richly supplemented by his own paintings and sketches - of researching, rehearsing and performing one of Shakespeare's best-known and most popular characters. As heard on BBC Radio 4. From the author of the acclaimed Year of the King. Num Pages: 208 pages, Contains both colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848424616
ISBN
9781848424616
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.54

Paperback. Antony Sher's stunning performance for the Royal Shakespeare Company as a Richard III on crutches - the so-called 'bottled spider' - won him both the Laurence Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Actor of 1984. This book records - in the actor's own words and drawings - the making of this historic theatrical event. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ANC; APB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854597533
ISBN
9781854597533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Valente, Joseph; Howes, Marjorie. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268011208
ISBN
9780268011208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.25

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691613604
ISBN
9780691613604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.95

Hardcover. An examination of the career of William Butler Yeats with special emphasis upon his connection with English Renaissance literature. Amongst other topics, it looks at the influence on his work of such writers as Arnold, Spenser, Jonson, Milton and Donne. Series: Studies in Anglo-Irish literature. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on dustwrapper but otherwise clean
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Schol, Print UK
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0005158
ISBN
9780333521779
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1982nd Edition
SKU
V9780333276013
ISBN
9780333276013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.82

Hardback. Num Pages: 111 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 317.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
111
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231048187
ISBN
9780231048187
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.55

Hardback. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 364 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333324578
ISBN
9780333324578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.06

Hardback. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 376 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 687.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333353325
ISBN
9780333353325
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.18

Hardback. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 34. Weight in Grams: 631.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333353332
ISBN
9780333353332
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.30

Hardback. This work finds new thresholds and margins in Yeats' thought and work and concentrates upon his plays, his occult concerns with spiritualism and the Irish belief in an other world. It closely examines certain aspects of his textual state and the borders of his canon. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 611.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333536360
ISBN
9780333536360
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.09

Hardback. This annual has four broad themes: W.B. Yeats's written and oral poetic technique; his philosophical interests in Eastern thought and "A Vision"; his manuscripts; and Jack B. Yeats's work, including his illustrations for his brother's writing. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333536377
ISBN
9780333536377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.73

Hardback. This issue is devoted to one of the realities of Yeats's writing, the Irish audience that he loved enough to scorn. This audience managed to wound him both by its attention and its indifference. As these eight essays by Irish critics show, it matters even more in the changing Ireland of today. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 379 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 661.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
379
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333633151
ISBN
9780333633151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.42

Hardcover. This research-level publication for current thought and documentation upon the life and work of Yeats, focuses on Yeats at work on various manuscripts and on his tours of America. Two of his poems are published from manuscript for the first time. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 601.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333390726
ISBN
9780333390726
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.01

Hardcover. The two main themes of this book are Yeats' poetic technique and his aims for an Irish theatre. Included are several essays by Yeats himself, including the first publication of his Wildean dialogue, "The Poet and the Actress", as well as an address on the Irish National Theatre in 1934. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 325 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 639. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Showing light shelf wear, remains a fine copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0022144
ISBN
9780333421123
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Chapman, W.; Gould, Warwick. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 426 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349721597
ISBN
9781349721597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.43

Hardback. Editor(s): Chapman, Wayne K.; Gould, Warwick. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 426 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
15
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403902986
ISBN
9781403902986
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.23

Hardback. Spanning all of Yeats's career, these critical essays are organised into three main parts: his concern with the speaking voice and its bearing on readings of his verse; his poetry in context with the work of other "Georgians"; and the implications for his poetics of his spiritualist philosophy. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 429.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333646175
ISBN
9780333646175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.52

Hardback. This book traces the creative process in Yeats's writing, in his making and remaking of verse, and in the development of a body of work over the last forty years of his life. Lyrical and philosophical poetry, verse-drama, and the shifting contexts of personal and political events are all dealt with here. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230271913
ISBN
9780230271913
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.74

Paperback. The third volume of a three volume edition of the collected papers and notebooks which comprise the "automatic writing" of W.B.Yeats. The material presented here is taken from the writings known as "the sleep and dreams" notebooks, the "vision" notebooks one and two and from Yeats' card files. Editor(s): Martinich, Robert Anthony; Harper, Margaret Mills. Series: Yeats's Vision Papers. Num Pages: 444 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 677.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
444
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349109265
ISBN
9781349109265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.41

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312230227
ISBN
9780312230227
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
339
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349012961
ISBN
9781349012961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.66

hardcover. Num Pages: 359 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 26. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
359
Condition
New
Edition
1981st Edition
SKU
V9780333130278
ISBN
9780333130278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349045488
ISBN
9781349045488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.94

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