Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Paperback. Shakespeare's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size nuggets of inspiration and wisdom from the greatest writer in the English language and the most popular playwright across the globe. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 110 x 127 x 29. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- William Collins
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0015266
- ISBN
- 9780007954858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes-of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. Greenblatt shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226306667
- ISBN
- 9780226306667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.66
€ 27.99
€ 22.66
Paperback. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes - the absolute authority claimed for God over the world, for the holy scriptures over the faithful, monarchs over subjects, fathers over wives and children, men over women. This book shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolute claims and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 202. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes - the absolute authority claimed for God over the world, for the holy scriptures over the faithful, monarchs over subjects, fathers over wives and children, men over women. This book shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolute claims and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 148 x 216 x 10. Weight: 202.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 164
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226306674
- ISBN
- 9780226306674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.33
€ 18.99
€ 16.33
Paperback. A guide to the historical detail of Shakespeare's ten history plays. This text examines medieval English history according to the Tudor chroniclers who provided Shakespeare with his material; that history as understood by modern scholars; and the action of the plays themselves. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195123197
- ISBN
- 9780195123197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.36
€ 36.36
Paperback. This books chronicles the ingenious ways of dying in Shakespeare, from suicide to murder, and from workaday dagger to baroque pie recipe. Illustrated with contemporary images, it establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking about early modern death. Num Pages: 192 pages, 80 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 210. .
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851242474
- ISBN
- 9781851242474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.40
€ 26.99
€ 20.40
Paperback. William Shakespeare's plays are a guide to how individuals react to the competing pressures of statecraft and personal ambition, fear and love. This book not only considers these "cases" in the plays themselves, but also in the sources available to Shakespeare - the techniques Shakespeare used to transform history into drama. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826418807
- ISBN
- 9780826418807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.55
€ 30.99
€ 22.55
Paperback. In this Very Short Introduction Bart Van Es analyses Shakespeare's comedic plays, picking out the family resemblances across these works. He considers their shared themes such as confusion and cross dressing, misguided love, twins and substitutions, and explores the bard's verbal artistry and wit. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 6 to 8 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 174 x 111. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198723356
- ISBN
- 9780198723356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.74
€ 11.99
€ 10.74
Hardcover. Shakespeare's Binding Language is an innovative, substantial but highly readable study exploring the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges and the other verbal and performative acts by which characters commit themselves to the truth of things past, present, and to come. Num Pages: 648 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198757580
- ISBN
- 9780198757580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.91
€ 97.91
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
€ 70.66
€ 70.66
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Pari Publishing Italy
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788895604015
- ISBN
- 9788895604015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.20
€ 12.20
Paperback. The Windy Side of Care - A Reading of Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing". Series: Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary S. 75 pages. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (XR) Revision / study guides. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 8. Weight: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange
- Number of pages
- 75
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906075019
- ISBN
- 9781906075019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.25
€ 14.99
€ 14.25
Paperback. Series: Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary S. Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 136 x 8. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Greenwich Exchange Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 98
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906075125
- ISBN
- 9781906075125
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.26
€ 16.99
€ 15.26
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
€ 25.99€ 23.45
€ 25.99
€ 23.45
hardcover. Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Editor(s): Holland, Peter. Series: Shakespeare Survey. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 28. Weight in Grams: 83.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780521781145
- ISBN
- 9780521781145
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.01
€ 136.01
Hardcover. "Shakespeare Studies" is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing more than three hundred pages of essays and studies by critics from both hemispheres. Editor(s): Barroll, J. Leeds. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610. "Bibliogr. Index. 376 p. illus. 24 cm. Associated Names: Barroll, J. Leeds. Associated Names: Zimmerman, Susan.,. Associated Dates: 1928-. Original cloth. Very good, clean copy, binding tight, spine ends rubbed, cloth lightly stained. 2d ed." Keywords: "Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - Drama & Dramatists,Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Shakespeare, William - Criticism & Stud"
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson (An Associat Dublin, Ireland
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- SKU
- KEX0069191
- ISBN
- 9780838636404
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. "Shakespeare Studies" is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing more than three hundred pages of essays and studies by critics from both hemispheres. Editor(s): Barroll, J. Leeds. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610. "Includes bibliographical footnotes. xii, 441 p. 25 cm. Associated Names: Barroll, J. Leeds. Associated Names: Zimmerman, Susan.,. Associated Dates: 1928-. Original cloth. Near-good ex-library copy with slightly dulled spine and worn spine and board edges. Labeled endpapers, stamped page edges and marked t.p." Keywords: "Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - Drama & Dramatists,Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Shakespeare, William - Criticism & Stud"
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson (An Associat Dublin, Ireland
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- SKU
- KEX0106191
- ISBN
- 9780838636404
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A professor and a prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them both Larry Newton, one of the most notorious inmates in the prison's supermax, was trying to break out. But Laura Bates, one of the most persistent teachers the prison had seen, was trying to break in. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BM; DSGS; JKVQ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402273148
- ISBN
- 9781402273148
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.57
€ 19.99
€ 19.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press Ithaca
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801487675
- ISBN
- 9780801487675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.14
€ 42.14
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780389209881
- ISBN
- 9780389209881
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.48
€ 190.48
Paperback. Intends to reconstruct Shakespeare's authorial identity as Shakespeare and his contemporaries actually understood it. This title argues that Shakespeare tried to adapt his own singular talent and ambition to the collaborative enterprise of drama by imagining himself as uniquely embodying the diverse, fractious energies of the popular theater. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226445724
- ISBN
- 9780226445724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.37
€ 33.99
€ 26.37