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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Paperback. From marketing to electronic Shakespeare, comics to romance novels, "Star Trek" to Branagh, radio and popular music to "Bartlett's Quotations", the volume explores the contemporary cultural significance of Shakespeare in a broad array of mass media contexts. Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294540
- ISBN
- 9780312294540
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Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. * Contains original essays on every Shakespearean tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus. * Includes thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 504 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 171 x 39. Weight in Grams: 868.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405136051
- ISBN
- 9781405136051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.50
€ 55.50
Paperback. The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare's histories. Contains original essays on every history play from Henry VI to Henry V. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 171 x 245 x 39. Weight in Grams: 866.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- Volume II
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405136068
- ISBN
- 9781405136068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.34
€ 55.34
Paperback. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using various resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. This book contains original essays on comedy from "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" to "Twelfth Night" as well as articles on such topics as Shakespeare's comedies on film. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 255 x 27. Weight in Grams: 866.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Volume III
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405136075
- ISBN
- 9781405136075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.78
€ 56.78
Paperback. * Contains original essays on Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and The Sonnets, as well as Pericles, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 172 x 35. Weight in Grams: 840.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- Volume IV
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405136082
- ISBN
- 9781405136082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.50
€ 55.50
Hardback. This volume examines Ben Jonson's role as literary critic, and examines the ways in which that criticism defines his role as a professional author. It suggests how Jonson's criticism set the terms for the profession of letters in England for more than a century. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333629819
- ISBN
- 9780333629819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.09
€ 128.09
Paperback. All the roles in Shakespeare's plays were acted by men, yet he wrote strong roles for women from Lady Macbeth to Rosalind. So was Shakespeare a feminist before his time? This study examines how these and other issues have maintained the playwright's influence throughout history. Series: Macmillan Literary Lives. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333665480
- ISBN
- 9780333665480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801484186
- ISBN
- 9780801484186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 45.53
€ 50.99
€ 45.53
Hardback. This collection of essays applies the postmodernist theory of intertextuality to the romantic drama of the English Renaissance, including work by Heywood, Beaumont and Shakespeare. The introduction reviews various understandings of intertextuality and suggests adaptations. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333567036
- ISBN
- 9780333567036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.05
€ 194.05
Hardcover. Taking a wide ranging inter-textual approach, Richard Hillman sets early modern English play texts against political and cultural discourses concerning France, as these informed contemporary English consciousness. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; DSG; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 529.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333694541
- ISBN
- 9780333694541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Hardback. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, Hilman focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719082764
- ISBN
- 9780719082764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.60
€ 155.60
Paperback. From the authors of the successful Grand-Guignol and London's Grand Guignol - also published by UEP - this book includes translations of a further eleven plays, adding significantly to the repertoire of Grand-Guignol plays available in the English language. Series: Exeter Performance Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: ANF; ANH; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859899963
- ISBN
- 9780859899963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 29.44
€ 30.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Editor(s): Meek, Richard; Sullivan, Erin. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781526116918
- ISBN
- 9781526116918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.25
€ 40.25
Hardcover. This book examines the dramatic work of Dickens, Browning, Collins, and Tennyson, their interaction with the theatrical world, and their attempts to develop their reputations as playwrights. These major Victorian writers each authored several professional plays, but why has their achievement been overlooked? Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 262 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137504678
- ISBN
- 9781137504678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Presents a philosophical meditation on Iago and the nature of evil, through the exploration of the enduring puzzle found in Shakespeare's "Othello". This book opens with a portrait of Iago, and considers the nature and moral significance of the evil that he represents. It addresses the boundaries dividing normality and pathology. Translator(s): Lob, Ladislaus. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 28.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691137339
- ISBN
- 9780691137339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Rudolph Steiner Pr
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902636542
- ISBN
- 9781902636542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.68
€ 19.99
€ 18.68
hardcover. Thomas Heywood was a playwright, miscellanist and a translator. Arguing that Heywood's theatrical output deserves the same attention and study that has been directed towards Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton, this book looks at the periods of Heywood's creativity. It explores how Heywood participated in the civic life of London in his writings. Series Editor(s): Ostovich, Dr. Helen. Series: Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama. Num Pages: 394 pages, Includes 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 904.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 394
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780754669258
- ISBN
- 9780754669258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.02
€ 49.02
hardcover. Shakespeare's Big Men examines five Shakespearean tragedies - Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and Coriolanus - through the lens of generative anthropology and the insights of its founder, Eric Gans. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9781442650077
- ISBN
- 9781442650077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.15
€ 68.15
Hardcover. Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111448
- ISBN
- 9780230111448
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.33
€ 52.90
€ 47.33
Paperback. In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage: then 'all the men and women in it' are 'merely players'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474411349
- ISBN
- 9781474411349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47