Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Hardback. Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of Irishness. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137543554
- ISBN
- 9781137543554
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.20€ 26.79
€ 71.20
€ 26.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: ANC; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Workbook
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472523235
- ISBN
- 9781472523235
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.98
€ 37.99
€ 31.98
Paperback. Explores how Shakespeare's plays were produced both in his own time and in succeeding centuries. This book explains how the Elizabethan playhouse conveyed a sense of place using minimal scenery, from the Forest of Arden in "As You Like It" to the tavern in "Henry IV, Part I". Num Pages: 256 pages, 53 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044798
- ISBN
- 9780226044798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.01
€ 31.99
€ 25.01
Hardback. Shakespeare was not, strictly speaking, a philosopher. That is, he did not write essays or treatises arguing philosophical positions or proposing an all-embracing philosophical scheme. Series: Blackwell Great Minds. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405167956
- ISBN
- 9781405167956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.51
€ 98.51
Paperback. * Second edition of this highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare. * Offers readers insights into what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405127530
- ISBN
- 9781405127530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.30
€ 42.30
Hardcover. This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare's works for pleasure. Series: How to Study Literature. Num Pages: 184 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113953
- ISBN
- 9781405113953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.55
€ 102.55
Hardcover. Explores how Shakespeare's plays were produced both in his own time and in succeeding centuries. This book explains how the Elizabethan playhouse conveyed a sense of place using minimal scenery, from the Forest of Arden in "As You Like It" to the tavern in "Henry IV, Part I". Num Pages: 256 pages, 53 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; 3JD; AN; DSGS; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044781
- ISBN
- 9780226044781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.76
€ 32.99
€ 25.76
Paperback. This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare's works for pleasure. Series: How to Study Literature. Num Pages: 184 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113960
- ISBN
- 9781405113960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 32.10
€ 32.99
€ 32.10
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138192775
- ISBN
- 9781138192775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.04
€ 15.04
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635811
- ISBN
- 9780691635811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.74
€ 144.74
Paperback. Highly contentious and subversive at the time of its first production in Milan in 1970, this has since become one of Fo's best known and translated text. Based on a true story it throws in to relief the judicial and police corruption of 1970s Italy. Simon Nyes's superb translation brings out the parallels with our situation today. Editor(s): Farrell, Joseph. Translator(s): Nye, Simon. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413772671
- ISBN
- 9780413772671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.44
€ 15.99
€ 14.44
Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duquesne
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820704975
- ISBN
- 9780820704975
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.70€ 62.43
€ 74.70
€ 62.43
Hardback. Num Pages: 265 pages, 18 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; AN; DSBH; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 212 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349950959
- ISBN
- 9781349950959
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.55
€ 121.55
hardcover. The first study in English of the literary relationship between Beckett and Dante. It is a clear and innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press Manchester
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719071560
- ISBN
- 9780719071560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.77
€ 149.77
hardcover. The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett's poetics through the notion of 'nothing', analysed in its many incarnations in Beckett's prose works, plays, TV plays and adaptations. Editor(s): Caselli, Daniela. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press Manchester
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719080197
- ISBN
- 9780719080197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.62
€ 160.62
Paperback. Presents a collection of three "Turk" plays namely "Selimus, Emperor of the Turks"; "A Christian Turned Turk"; and "The Renegado". It represents Islamic power and wealth in scenes of piracy on the high seas, on-stage execution by strangulation, and rites of religious conversion. It is useful for understanding the English identity. Editor(s): Vitkus, Daniel J. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illus; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110297
- ISBN
- 9780231110297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138961265
- ISBN
- 9781138961265
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.42
€ 17.42
Paperback. Shakespeare's plays have inspired British Oscar-winners and spaghetti Westerns, Bollywood thrillers, and Soviet epics. Covering twenty plays, this work spans a century of cinema, from a silent "Tempest" (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's "As You Like It" (2006). Series: Screen Guides. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844571703
- ISBN
- 9781844571703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.54
€ 33.99
€ 24.54
Hardback. The economics of political and sexual exchange not only became entwined but functioned as mutual supports during a period of social, cultural, and political readjustment. Num Pages: 440 pages, 40, 40 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801879616
- ISBN
- 9780801879616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.83€ 62.54
€ 68.83
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Together, O'Quinn's two books offer a dramatic account of the global shifts in British imperial culture that will be of interest to scholars in theater and performance studies, eighteenth-century studies, Romanticism, and trans-Atlantic studies. Num Pages: 440 pages, 18, 18 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780801899317
- ISBN
- 9780801899317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 6.75
€ 29.99
€ 6.75
Paperback. Examines the ways in which Shakespeare used the law for dramatic effect and incorporated the passion for justice into his great tragedies and comedies, and considers the modern legal relevance of his work. This is a study in the field of literature and the law. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780803278219
- ISBN
- 9780803278219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.77
€ 20.99
€ 20.77
Hardback. Presents a collection of three "Turk" plays namely "Selimus, Emperor of the Turks"; "A Christian Turned Turk"; and "The Renegado". It represents Islamic power and wealth in scenes of piracy on the high seas, on-stage execution by strangulation, and rites of religious conversion. It is useful for understanding the English identity. Editor(s): Vitkus, Daniel J. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illus; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110280
- ISBN
- 9780231110280
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.96
€ 146.96
Paperback. OuterSpeares is the first book to examine the full spectrum of past and present adaptations, and one that offers a unique perspective on the transcultural and transdisciplinary aspects of Shakespeare in the contemporary world. Num Pages: 416 pages, 14. BIC Classification: APF; APT; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442615939
- ISBN
- 9781442615939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.32
€ 42.99
€ 38.32
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415198943
- ISBN
- 9780415198943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.56
€ 53.56