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Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Paperback. Offers a biography of Shakespeare, this book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting Shakespeare. It is a depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749386559
ISBN
9780749386559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Hardback. Challenging ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, this text proposes characters should be perceived as imagined persons. Drawing on analyses of earlier and modern psychology, it goes on to reveal the dynamics of Shakespeare's characterizations of Hamlet, Prince Hal and Rosalind. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333634486
ISBN
9780333634486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Hardcover. An in-depth, exhaustive exploration of Bond's output over a fifty-year career, combining rigorous analysis and discussion of plays such as Saved and Innocence. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANB; ANF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230367395
ISBN
9780230367395
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Paperback. A revised edition of Peter Brook's take on Shakespeare, with a new chapter. The book addresses a number of questions about performing Shakespeare today: Why is Shakespeare not out of date? What do we mean by Shakespeare's "genius" or "creativity". Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 129 x 4. Weight in Grams: 66.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Expanded ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854597120
ISBN
9781854597120
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. One of the world's most revered theatre directors reflects on a fascinating variety of Shakespearean topics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848424104
ISBN
9781848424104
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. This text argues that melodrama is a crucial mode of expression in modern literature. After studying stage melodrama as a dominant popular form in the 1800s, the author looks at Balzac and Henry James, to show how these "realist" novelists created fiction using rhetoric and excess of melodrama. Num Pages: 251 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; AN; DSBF; DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
251
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300065534
ISBN
9780300065534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 24.18

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198393450
ISBN
9780198393450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.79

Paperback. Helen who has always been faithful to her husband Menelaus; who never went to Troy, but was carried off to Egypt, where she remains throughout the Trojan War, waiting faithfully for her husband Menelaus to rescue her. Meanwhile, Helen of Troy - a mere phantom fashioned by the gods - has blighted the real Helen's life with undeserved hatred. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DB; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856686511
ISBN
9780856686511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.39

Paperback. The three plays in this volume reflect the variety of belief in witches and practice of witchcraft in the Jacobean period. Jacobean understanding of witchcraft is illuminated by the close study of these contrasting texts in relation to each other, and other contemporary works. Editor(s): Sedge, Douglas. Num Pages: 260 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719019531
ISBN
9780719019531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.82

Hardback. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333280836
ISBN
9780333280836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. Participants in the current debate regarding the literary canon generally separate the established literary order - of which Shakespeare is the most visible icon - from emerging minority literatures. This study insists that the two realms should be brought together. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 45.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520086463
ISBN
9780520086463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.81

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403970541
ISBN
9781403970541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.71

Paperback. What can the printed texts of plays from Shakespeare's time say about performance? How have printed plays been read and interpreted? This collection, now available in paperback, considers the evidence of early modern printed plays and their histories of production and reception, from early performance to the psychology of Hamlet. Editor(s): Holland, Peter; Orgel, Stephen. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230210134
ISBN
9780230210134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.39
€ 64.47

Hardback. A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 242 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1208.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300222715
ISBN
9780300222715
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.25

Hardback. Series: Contemporary Interpretations of Shakespeare S. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 505.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333433331
ISBN
9780333433331
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.07

Paperback. In these brief, readable, and insightful essays, Fr. Milward delves into the poetry of Hopkins and his central ideas on God the Trinity, the self, nature and people. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Ave Maria University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
n
Condition
New
SKU
V9781932589214
ISBN
9781932589214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781932589474
ISBN
9781932589474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.70

Hardcover. Reed explores the impact of early American theatre's portrayals of outlaw characters and the troubling force of the low in theatrical imagination. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 249 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 529.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230607927
ISBN
9780230607927
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 47.72

Paperback. The essential 1997 guide to one of the theatre's most important characters, with an opening essay by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson. Editor(s): Raby, Peter. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 330 pages, 20 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. 330 pages, 20 b/w illus. Editor(s): Raby, Peter. The essential 1997 guide to one of the theatre's most important characters, with an opening essay by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521479875
ISBN
9780521479875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.55

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691648682
ISBN
9780691648682
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.85

Paperback. Teenager Alan, fought over by a religious mother and an atheist father, finds release in horses, until he is driven to blind them with a spike. Why? Series: New Longman Literature. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Longman Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Longman Literature
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582097124
ISBN
9780582097124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.13

Paperback. Fusing Marxist and capitalist perspectives in a manner that anticipates aspects of the current global market expansion, the author evokes a world in which nothing is private and everything is for sale. Translator(s): Rolleston, James; Evers, Kai. Num Pages: 128 pages, 7 b&w photographs, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326908
ISBN
9780822326908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 110 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 210. .
Publisher
The Bodleian Library United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851242573
ISBN
9781851242573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Hardcover. The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642. * Places emphasis on those plays that are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes to be seen in modern productions, including Shakespeare. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226291
ISBN
9780631226291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.96

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