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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Paperback. This book, now available in paperback, unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the theatre work of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Forced Entertainment and Goat Island combine to offer a critique of performance studies. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 364 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; HPN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 364
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230235243
- ISBN
- 9780230235243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.81€ 114.64
€ 118.81
€ 114.64
Hardback. In the 1930s, Ayn Rand was asked to adapt her first novel, We the Living, for the theatre. Her first statement against communism, it sold over 3 million copies. This edition contains two unpublished versions of the play (the latter entitled The Unconquered), and is the first substantial piece of Rand's fiction to publish in over twenty years. Editor(s): Mayhew, Professor Robert. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428738
- ISBN
- 9781137428738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.57
€ 57.57
Hardback. An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern performance practice negotiates the possibilities for staging these characters who refuse to conform to standards of acceptable behaviour for women, but are among Shakespeare's bravest, wisest and most vivid creations. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348097
- ISBN
- 9780230348097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardcover. Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work. Contributors probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions. In this sense, the volume proposes to read Shakespeare through genre and, just as importantly, read genre through Shakespeare. Editor(s): Guneratne, Anthony R. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 221 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108981
- ISBN
- 9780230108981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.57
€ 67.57
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€ 16.29
€ 19.99
€ 16.29
paperback. Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, the author gives us a true sense of 'the tragedies joining up with life, with all our lives; leading us into a perspective of possibilities that stretch forward and back in time, and in our total awareness of things. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140530193
- ISBN
- 9780140530193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
Hardcover. This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Editor(s): Johnston, Andrew James; West-Pavlov, Russell; Kempf, Elisabeth. Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719090226
- ISBN
- 9780719090226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.00
€ 168.00
Paperback. Editor(s): Worthen, W. B.; Holland, Peter. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSB; DSG; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403907943
- ISBN
- 9781403907943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardback. This book is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with the revenge tradition in European Renaissance drama. Editor(s): Wetmore, Kevin J., Jr. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPJ; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602892
- ISBN
- 9780230602892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio. Performing Shakespeare, Tran...
. Ed(S): Taylor, Gary; Bourus, Terri
Hardback. Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment, a script and photos from Gary Taylor's recent production, and essays by respected early modern scholars, this book will make a definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio. Editor(s): Taylor, Gary; Bourus, Terri. Num Pages: 347 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 655.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 347
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344212
- ISBN
- 9781137344212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.11
€ 129.11
Hardback. This collecton examines critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben Jonson and his body of work. It employs materialist, feminist and queer theory in its approach to Jonsonian playtexts and masques. Editor(s): Sanders, Julie; Chedgzoy, Kate; Wiseman, Susan. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSG; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333670729
- ISBN
- 9780333670729
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.13
€ 194.13
Hardback. Editor(s): Reynolds, Bryan; West, William N. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403991201
- ISBN
- 9781403991201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardback. This volume, a celebration of the tercentenary of Dryden's death, examines the impact of his work through a range of essays by leading Dryden scholars. These essays pay attention to two aspects of his work: the politics of his plays, and Dryden's position as a poet poised between ancient and modern influences. Editor(s): Rawson, Hardbackaude; Rawson, Claude; Santesso, Aaron. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations, appendix, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874138429
- ISBN
- 9780874138429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.67
€ 142.67
Hardback. The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her life and after her death, through her own writing as well as through contemporary and later writers. The contributors are codicologists, historians and literary critics, offering a varied reading of the Queen and of her cultural inheritance. Editor(s): Petrina, Alessandra; Tosi, Laura. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; DSC; DSG; DSK; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278172
- ISBN
- 9780230278172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.07
€ 128.07
Hardback. Editor(s): Pascale, Aebischer; Esche, Edward J.; Wheale, Nigel. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403912664
- ISBN
- 9781403912664
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Performing Gender Violence: Plays by Contemporary American Women Drama...
. Ed(S): Ozieblo, Barbara; Hernando-Real, Noe...
hardcover. Examines violence against women in contemporary American plays by female dramatists. Editor(s): Ozieblo, Barbara; Hernando-Real, Noelia. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230339958
- ISBN
- 9780230339958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.91€ 46.73
€ 52.91
€ 46.73
Hardback. The accomplished contributors add significant understanding to the staging and teaching of Macbeth and reflect on the rich history of African Americans struggling to find a voice on the American stage. Editor(s): Newstok, Scott L.; Thompson, Ayanna. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 305 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 623.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616332
- ISBN
- 9780230616332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.05
€ 68.05
Paperback. The accomplished contributors add significant understanding to the staging and teaching of Macbeth and reflect on the rich history of African Americans struggling to find a voice on the American stage. Editor(s): Newstok, Scott L.; Thompson, Ayanna. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSGS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616424
- ISBN
- 9780230616424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
hardcover. Editor(s): Lavezzo, Kathy; Hentschell, Roze. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSGS; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 26. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493818
- ISBN
- 9781611493818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.40
€ 155.40
Paperback. Editor(s): Kolin, Philip C.; Young, Harvey. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415624930
- ISBN
- 9780415624930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.94
€ 57.94
Hardback. Editor(s): Habermann, Ina; Witen, Michelle. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137518347
- ISBN
- 9781137518347
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.07
€ 150.07
In Defence of Theatre: Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions
. Ed(S): Gallagher, Kathleen; Freeman, Barry
hardcover. Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the role that theatre can - and must - play in professional, community, and educational venues. Editor(s): Gallagher, Kathleen; Freeman, Barry. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; AN; DSG; JF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442630796
- ISBN
- 9781442630796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.06
€ 77.06
hardcover. The Records of Early English Drama volumes make available historical transcripts that provide evidence of early English drama. Editor(s): Douglas, Audrey; Greenfield, Peter. Series: Records of Early English Drama. Num Pages: 547 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 255 x 177 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1276.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 547
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780802056696
- ISBN
- 9780802056696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.82€ 114.65
€ 118.82
€ 114.65
Hardback. This volume examines the sources and impact of Bloom's Shakespearean criticism. Through focused and sustained study of this writer and his best-selling book, this collection of essays addresses a wide range of issues pertinent to both general readers and university classes. Editor(s): Desmet, Christy; Sawyer, Robert. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239558
- ISBN
- 9780312239558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.70
€ 194.70