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Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Paperback. A new edition of Ben Crystal's popular guide to the Bard Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Icon Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785780301
ISBN
9781785780301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

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
€ 27.05

Hardback. This book examines six plays by Shakespeare ("Love's Labour's Lost", "Hamlet", "As You Like It", "Twelfth Night", "The Winter's Tale" and "The Tempest") as dramatizations of the Renaissance Court in its developing history. Series: Contemporary Interpretations of Shakespeare S. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 505.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333474358
ISBN
9780333474358
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.07

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

€ 200.22

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

€ 41.99
€ 37.83

Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230114197
ISBN
9780230114197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.96

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

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

hardcover. Series: Contemporary Interpretations of Shakespeare S. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Edition
1988th Edition
SKU
V9780333433560
ISBN
9780333433560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.40

Hardback. This enquiry into the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories assumes that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiographical outlook. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 505.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333633298
ISBN
9780333633298
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.07

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

€ 24.76

Hardback. During the Renaissance, moral philosophy came to permeate the minds of many, including the spectators that poured into Shakespeare's Globe theatre. Examining these strains of thought that formed the basis for humanism, Raspa delves into King Lear, Hamlet, among others to unlock what influence this had on both Shakespeare and his interpreters. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137581112
ISBN
9781137581112
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.37

Paperback. Presents a study of Shakespeare's intellectual preoccupations. This book offers guidance to Shakespeare's plays and sheds light on questions that engrossed Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity and relation, the proper status of imagination, and ethics and subjectivity. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300136296
ISBN
9780300136296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.29

Hardcover. This book is a study of As You Like It, which shows how the play represents issues of interest to literate playgoers of its time, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603318
ISBN
9780230603318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.61

Hardcover. Argues that Shakespeare is anti-political, dissecting the nature of the nation-state and charting a surprising form of resistance to it, using sovereign power against itself to engineer new forms of selfhood and relationality that escape the orbit of the nation-state. It is these new experiences that the book terms 'the life of the flesh'. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137275004
ISBN
9781137275004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Hardback. Argument was the basis of Renaissance education - both rhetoric and dialectic permeated early modern Humanist culture, including drama. This study approaches Shakespeare's history plays by analyzing the use of argument in them and examining the importance of argument in Renaissance culture. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333970218
ISBN
9780333970218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.82

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

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
€ 10.89

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

€ 31.99
€ 22.93

Hardback. Maria Jones argues for a dialogic understanding of Shakespeare's plays in performance relative to unresolved issues of modernity, in a study of modern productions on stage and screen. Num Pages: 225 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333971697
ISBN
9780333971697
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.85

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