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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Hardcover. Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of space. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115231
- ISBN
- 9780230115231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.61
€ 52.90
€ 46.61
Hardcover. A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theater whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Schanke's examination of his life and legacy allows a rare exploration into this pivotal moment of gay American history. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115750
- ISBN
- 9780230115750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.17
€ 52.90
€ 47.17
Hardcover. Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental Num Pages: 196 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115958
- ISBN
- 9780230115958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.64
€ 52.90
€ 46.64
Hardcover. This collection of new essays is the first to explore the rich afterlife of one of Shakespeare's most recognizable characters. With contributions from an international group of established and emerging scholars, The Afterlife of Ophelia moves beyond the confines of existing scholarship and forges new lines of inquiry beyond Shakespeare studies. Editor(s): Peterson, Dr. Kaara L. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 271 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116900
- ISBN
- 9780230116900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.83
€ 116.83
Hardcover. Using themed performance reviews and extensive interviews with theatre professionals, this book explores how Shakespeare's 'cultural capital' has been evoked in the reinvention of a post-communist nation against a backdrop of political tensions surrounding the ascendance of Central and Eastern Europe to the European Union. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386. Political Appropriations in the Post-communist Czech Republic. Series: Performance Interventions. 224 pages, 9 black & white halftones. Using themed performance reviews and extensive interviews with theatre professionals, this book explores how Shakespeare's 'cultural capital' has been evoked in the reinvention of a post-communist nation against a backdrop of political tensions surrounding the ascendance of Central and Eastern Europe to the European Union. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 18. Weight: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203242
- ISBN
- 9780230203242
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Paperback. This study expands on Reynolds' 'transversal poetics' - the theory, methodology, and aesthetics developed in response to the need for an approach that fosters agency, creativity and conscientious scholarship and pedagogy. It offers new readings of plays by, amongst others, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, Webster and Greene. Editor(s): Raynolds, Bryan. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230213128
- ISBN
- 9780230213128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardback. Globalization is transforming theatre everywhere. As writers seek to exploit new opportunities to produce their work internationally, audiences are seeing the world -- and the stage -- differently. This groundbreaking study explores these developments, placing them in the context of the transformation of Ireland since the early 1990s. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 461.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230214286
- ISBN
- 9780230214286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis and its reception, and film spectatorship and the zombie genre. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA; DSB; DSG; JFCA; MJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219342
- ISBN
- 9780230219342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.68
€ 149.68
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
Paperback. This new edition of Anthony Roche's pioneering survey of twentieth-century Irish drama brings the story up-to-date with new material on the contemporary Irish theatre scene. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219793
- ISBN
- 9780230219793
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Condition: New
€ 127.28
€ 127.28
Hardcover. Beckett's bilingual oeuvre has been approached from many angles, most of which stress its autonomy from understandings of Irishness emerging from the Irish Literary Revival. Emilie Morin shows that such autonomy is only apparent, and that Beckett's avant-garde practices remain bound to the exigencies that govern their very development. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219861
- ISBN
- 9780230219861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.67
€ 116.67
Hardcover. The highly performative categories of 'Irish culture' and 'Irishness' are in need of critical address, prompted by recent changes in Irish society, the arts industry and modes of critical inquiry. This book broaches this task by considering Irish expressive culture through some of the paradigms and vocabularies offered by performance studies. Num Pages: 269 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; ASZP; AVGH; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219984
- ISBN
- 9780230219984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21...
Broadhurst, Susan, Machon, Josephine
Hardcover. This innovative collection features essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars and reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting exchange between text, body and technology. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220256
- ISBN
- 9780230220256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. A pioneering study of the development of one of the key critical discourses in contemporary Irish studies, this book covers all the major figures, publications and debates within Irish postcolonial criticism, delivering a commentary on this diverse body of work as well as positioning Irish postcolonial criticism within the wider postcolonial field. Num Pages: 276 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224063
- ISBN
- 9780230224063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229365
- ISBN
- 9780230229365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. This book examines Field Day's cultural intervention into the Northern Irish 'Troubles' through individual readings of the fourteen plays produced by the enterprise. It argues that at the heart of this project were performances, in a variety of different forms and registers, of an ethics of translation that disrupted notions of Irish identity. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229693
- ISBN
- 9780230229693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardcover. Ibsen and the Irish Revival examines Henrik Ibsen's influence on the Irish Revival and the reception of his plays in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Dublin. It highlights the international dimension of the Irish Literary Revival and offers new perspectives on W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Lennox Robinson, James Joyce, George Moore and Sean O'Casey. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACSN; 3JH; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231993
- ISBN
- 9780230231993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. Carter explores early modern culture's reception of Ovid through the manipulation of Ovidian myth by Shakespeare, Middleton, Heywood, Marlowe and Marston. With a focus on sexual violence, homosexuality, incest and idolatry, Carter analyses how depictions of mythology represent radical ideas concerning gender and sexuality. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230244238
- ISBN
- 9780230244238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
The Performing Century. Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History.
. Ed(S): Davis, Tracy C.; Holland, Peter
Paperback. This book, now available for the first time in paperback, looks at modes of performance and forms of theatre in Nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland. On a variety of subjects, the authors redefine what theatre and performance in the Nineteenth century might be. Editor(s): Davis, Tracy C.; Holland, Peter. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; AN; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230250406
- ISBN
- 9780230250406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Players, Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating Performance, 1660-1800...
Cordner, Michael, Holland, Peter
Paperback. This book, now available in paperback, brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 313 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230250574
- ISBN
- 9780230250574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19