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Literary studies: plays & playwrights

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Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Paperback. This volume argues that the Shakespeare films of the 1990s are key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. It maintains films such as "Hamlet" and "Othello" engage with some of the most pressing millennial concerns. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSGS; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333776643
ISBN
9780333776643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSGS; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
2008th Edition
SKU
V9781403967886
ISBN
9781403967886
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.52

Hardcover. Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137438942
ISBN
9781137438942
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

hardcover. For over two centuries, scholars have discussed the evidence that Shakespeare worked with co-authors on several plays, and have used a variety of methods to differentiate their shares from his. This study takes up and extends these discussions, presenting an evidence. Num Pages: 576 pages, 5 halftones and numerous tables. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1131.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199256532
ISBN
9780199256532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.80

Hardcover. Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender. Num Pages: 272 pages, 38 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137332059
ISBN
9781137332059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. This volume examines Asian staging of Western canonical theatre, particularly Shakespeare's plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822327639
ISBN
9780822327639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.87

paperback. Suitable for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by modern audience. It features different panels that look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Num Pages: 676 pages, diagrams. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 173 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
9780140291179
ISBN
9780140291179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 24.73

Hardback. Using a variety of approaches from new historicism to performance criticism, Kehler offers a detailed, feminist study of the thirty-one widow characters of Shakespeare's plays. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230617032
ISBN
9780230617032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.03

Hardcover. Examines Shakespeare's plays for emergent early modern spectatorial subjects. It thus places it within the discourses most crucial to the contemporary exposition and disruption of regimes of vision: perspective painting, cartography, optics, geometry, Puritan anti-theatrical polemic and the occult. Num Pages: 257 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; CFG; DSGS; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333779354
ISBN
9780333779354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 423 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
423
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589880481
ISBN
9781589880481
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.42

Paperback. Shows the inter-relationship of all nine plays written in Shakespeare's main tragic period. Tracing through a dialectic between two different modes of imagining, the author analyzes how in subsequent plays related themes and situations are dramatized in both sacred and secular worlds. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333668641
ISBN
9780333668641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.46

Paperback. Shakespeare's tragedies contain an astonishing variety of suffering, from suicides and murders to dismemberments and grief. Stanley Wells considers how the bard's tragic plays drew on the literary and theatrical conventions of his time. Discussing the individual plays, he also explores why tragedy is regarded as a fit subject for entertainment. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 black and white images. BIC Classification: DDS; DSG; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198785293
ISBN
9780198785293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 35 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1905
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
35
Condition
New
SKU
V9780918016058
ISBN
9780918016058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.00

Hardcover. Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137352538
ISBN
9781137352538
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.23

hardcover. This is the first book-length analysis of Shakespeare's depiction of specula (mirrors) to reveal the literal and allegorical functions of mirrors in the playwright's art and thought. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2011th Edition
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116610
ISBN
9780230116610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198717577
ISBN
9780198717577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.91

Paperback. A revised edition of this acclaimed and best-selling edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and updated throughout to take account of recent scholarship since its first publication in 1997. Editor(s): Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Series: Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 448 pages, 20 in the Introduction. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 204 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408017975
ISBN
9781408017975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.49

Paperback. Editor(s): Rowse, A. L. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333363874
ISBN
9780333363874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Paperback. Following a facsimile of the 1609 Quatro printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, Stephen Booth offers an analytic commentary that ranges from brief glosses to substantial critical essays. Series: Yale Nota Bene. Num Pages: 616 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
616
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Text is Free of Markings
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300085068
ISBN
9780300085068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.68

Hardcover. A remarkable work that recovers the songs Shakespeare's audiences actually heard and brings them to life through performance. Num Pages: 528 pages, 49 illustrations, 500 music examples. BIC Classification: AVGC2; AVQS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 259 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1330.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
HAR/COM
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393058895
ISBN
9780393058895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 47.75

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