Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Paperback. This collection of essays applies the abstract theory of contemporary Shakespearean criticism to the practicalities of performance, bringing together key names from both realms and a wide range of sources. It is aimed at teachers and students of theatre studies and Renaissance studies. Editor(s): Bulman, James C. Num Pages: 228 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 231 x 12. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415116268
- ISBN
- 9780415116268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.09
€ 57.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 204 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226348438
- ISBN
- 9780226348438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.72
€ 30.99
€ 25.72
Paperback. Critics have been quick to address Cormac McCarthy's indebtedness to southern literature, Christianity, and existential thought, but the essays in this collection are among the first to tackle such issues as gender and race in McCarthy's work. Editor(s): Lilley, James D. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826327673
- ISBN
- 9780826327673
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Condition: New
€ 42.12
€ 42.12
Hardcover. Surveys the writings of the author of the Pulitzer Prize - winning drama "Angels in America" and coauthor of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film "Munich". This book guides readers through Kushner's influences and creations to map the importance of the writer's body of work in expanding postmodern literary and cultural landscapes. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Univ of South Carolina Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570037498
- ISBN
- 9781570037498
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.66
€ 64.66
Paperback. From the dawn of European literature, the figure of Medea has inspired artists in all fields throughout all centuries. This work examines the major representations of Medea in myth, art, and ancient and contemporary literature, as well as the philosophical, psychological, and cultural questions. Editor(s): Clauss, James J.; Johnston, Sarah Iles. Num Pages: 376 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSB; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691043760
- ISBN
- 9780691043760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.39
€ 94.39
Paperback. This book explores actors' systems of intellectual property in early modern England. Focusing on Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, and other plays, James Marino demonstrates how Shakespeare's company asserted ownership of its plays through intense ongoing revision and through insistent attribution to Shakespeare. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222548
- ISBN
- 9780812222548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.43
€ 47.43
Hardback. Shakespeare is worth reading because his works help us to make epistemological weakness into a way of life. Kuzner shows how Shakespeare's works offer a means for coming to terms with basic uncertainties about freedom, the world's abundance, and the demands of love and social life. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; HPK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823269938
- ISBN
- 9780823269938
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.93
€ 94.93
paperback. Provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles' seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. Focusing on the tragedies' dramatic power and the challenges with which they confront an audience, this book refuses to confine them within a supposedly Sophoclean template. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Greece and Rome Live. Num Pages: 176 pages, 4-colour cover illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904675723
- ISBN
- 9781904675723
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.48
€ 39.48
Paperback. This introductory guide to one of Marlowe's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of screen adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading. Series: Shakespeare Handbooks. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426338
- ISBN
- 9781137426338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.57
€ 32.57
Paperback. An engaging introductory guide to Chekhov, one of the most important and influential modern writers of fiction and drama. Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 352. Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature. 210 pages. An engaging introductory guide to Chekhov, one of the most important and influential modern writers of fiction and drama. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSG. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 11. Weight: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521706889
- ISBN
- 9780521706889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.22
€ 32.22
Paperback. Editor(s): Reynolds, James; Smith, Dr. Andy W. Series Editor(s): Brater, Enoch; Taylor-Batty, Mark. Series: Methuen Drama Engage. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8 bw illus. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408184394
- ISBN
- 9781408184394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 30.23
€ 34.99
€ 30.23
paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- twentieth anniversary edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231178679
- ISBN
- 9780231178679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.37
€ 36.99
€ 27.37
Paperback. For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - have been proposed as their true author. This book unravels the mystery of when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote the plays. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 125 x 21. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571235773
- ISBN
- 9780571235773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.44
€ 19.99
€ 14.44
Paperback. Following the biographical style of 1599, this book traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571235797
- ISBN
- 9780571235797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.11
€ 19.99
€ 14.11
Paperback. Going against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the impact of Jewish questions in early modern England, Shapiro presents how Elizabethans imagined Jews to be utterly different from themselves--in religion, race, nationality, and even sexuality. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Edition
- New Ed
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231103459
- ISBN
- 9780231103459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.29
€ 47.29
Paperback. Presents the history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes, but the course of literature. In this one year, we follow what he reads and writes, what he saw, and who he worked with as he creates four of his most famous plays - "Henry V", "Julius Caesar", "As You Like It", and "Hamlet". Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports.,. BIC Classification: BGL; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 31. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571214815
- ISBN
- 9780571214815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.01
€ 18.99
€ 14.01
Paperback. The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: "Hamlet" and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Series: Applications of Political Theory. Num Pages: 416 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; HP; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739102152
- ISBN
- 9780739102152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.94
€ 78.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 334 pages, forms, transparencies. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810107458
- ISBN
- 9780810107458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.91
€ 34.91
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408129104
- ISBN
- 9781408129104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.22
€ 23.99
€ 21.22
Hardback. This work explores the best of contemporary Italian theatre, from Luigi Pirandello to Massimo Bontempelli. It covers the period from the end of the 19th century to the aftermath of World War II, and includes a number of translations of plays never before published in English. Editor(s): House, Jane; Attisani, Antonio. Num Pages: 622 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 172 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1135.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 622
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231071185
- ISBN
- 9780231071185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.87
€ 130.87