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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Hardback. A Companion to Sophocles presents a comprehensive collection of original essays by leading scholars that address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. Initial essays introduce Sophocles extant tragedies, as well as fragments of his lost plays including the Ichneutae. Editor(s): Ormand, Kirk. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 618 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 175 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1224.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 618
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405187268
- ISBN
- 9781405187268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 212.06
€ 212.06
Hardback. * Provides an expansive and inter--disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. * Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of Englanda s most important dramatic period. * Gives readers facts and data along with up--to--date interpretation of the plays. Editor(s): Kinney, Arthur F. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 648 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 265 x 186 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631219507
- ISBN
- 9780631219507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 228.62
€ 228.62
Paperback. Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus, The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling, this book reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era, and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the twentieth- and twenty-first century stages. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274717
- ISBN
- 9781137274717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Hardcover. Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus and The Changeling, this book, now in paperback with a new Preface, reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the 20th and 21st century stages. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219540
- ISBN
- 9780230219540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare's current international afterlife. Editor(s): Hansen, Adam. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AP; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380012
- ISBN
- 9781137380012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Paperback. Unique report on the major archaeological dig at Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon home and the implications for the Shakespearian biography. Num Pages: 272 pages, 29 colour illustrations, 128 black & white illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526106490
- ISBN
- 9781526106490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.25
€ 41.25
Paperback. Going to see a 'Shakespeare' and want a quick run-down on the plot before you start? Teaching the 'Henry's' and need a handy guide to all the histories for the students? This book gives all this and more: an introduction to Shakespeare and his times; a note on the sources; cast lists, synopses; character descriptions and an essay on each play. Editor(s): McLeish, Kenneth; Unwin, Stephen. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 115 x 20. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571237456
- ISBN
- 9780571237456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.57
€ 15.99
€ 11.57
Paperback. This work explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking - especially rumour, slander, insult, vituperation and curse - and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226309897
- ISBN
- 9780226309897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.91
€ 37.99
€ 29.91
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780746311400
- ISBN
- 9780746311400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.40
€ 28.40
Hardcover. Renaissance Earwitnesses examines how maintaining masculinity on the early modern stage is intimately tied to 'earwitnessing,' or a sense of 'judicious listening' in his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619418
- ISBN
- 9780230619418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. For historians William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify their occupation of the throne; a blessing because without Shakespeare's 8-play history cycle, hardly anyone beyond specialists in the history of the period would know of their existence. Num Pages: 208 pages, 24 b & w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781554159
- ISBN
- 9781781554159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.22
€ 23.99
€ 17.22
Hardback. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 215 pages, 11 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 268 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319410029
- ISBN
- 9783319410029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.63
€ 138.63
Hardback. Fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. Covers a wide range of canonical and lesser known dramatic practices, with an emphasis on their social and cultural historical contexts. Series: Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745636030
- ISBN
- 9780745636030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874134711
- ISBN
- 9780874134711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.44
€ 130.44
Hardcover. Tackles the question of whether narrative and drama are as different from each other as some scholars assume. By examining everything from voice and tense to "scene and summary," Kathleen George, a theater professor and novelist, analyzes the choices a writer has when framing a story. She examines the problems of adaptation from novel to stage. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874139167
- ISBN
- 9780874139167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.28
€ 123.28
Hardback. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; AN; DSBD; DSG; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501703140
- ISBN
- 9781501703140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.29
€ 77.29
Hardback. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; AN; DSBF; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403943323
- ISBN
- 9781403943323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Paperback. A reassessment of the achievements of British playwright Harold Pinter by an international group of scholars. This work contains eighteen essays that represent the state of Pinter criticism and an affirmation of Pinter's preeminence in modern British theatre. Editor(s): Burkman, Katherine H.; Kundert-Gibbs, John Leeland. Series: Drama & Performance Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; AS; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253208118
- ISBN
- 9780253208118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Hardback. In this book, the author interrogates how narcissistic disturbances lead to the fragmentation and duplication that occur in the minds of mythic heroes and the fictional protagonists of modern drama, literature, and film. This examination focuses mostly on modern drama and exploring how Greek myths inform the literature. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137566065
- ISBN
- 9781137566065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46
Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474417716
- ISBN
- 9781474417716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.96€ 109.07
€ 112.96
€ 109.07