Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duquesne Univ Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820704678
- ISBN
- 9780820704678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.85€ 63.16
€ 74.85
€ 63.16
Hardback. This book is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with the revenge tradition in European Renaissance drama. Editor(s): Wetmore, Kevin J., Jr. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPJ; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602892
- ISBN
- 9780230602892
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Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
Hardcover. American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469229
- ISBN
- 9781137469229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardback. Editor(s): Payne, Deborah C. Num Pages: 138 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319465135
- ISBN
- 9783319465135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Hardcover. Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It includes a wide range of essays on theoretical and practical criticism focusing on the play's original dramatic context, on its signifying processes and its present-time screen remediation. Editor(s): Calvi, Lisanna. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137333131
- ISBN
- 9781137333131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Illuminates the continuities among Gordin's Russian fiction and journalism, his work as a controversial Jewish religious reformer, and his Yiddish plays Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 243 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295991320
- ISBN
- 9780295991320
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.11
€ 119.11
Paperback. Illuminates the continuities among Gordin's Russian fiction and journalism, his work as a controversial Jewish religious reformer, and his Yiddish plays Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 4 illus. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295991337
- ISBN
- 9780295991337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Participants in the current debate regarding the literary canon generally separate the established literary order - of which Shakespeare is the most visible icon - from emerging minority literatures. This study insists that the two realms should be brought together. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 45.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520086463
- ISBN
- 9780520086463
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Paperback. This new edition of Shakespeare's tragic history, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with acclaimed directors Michael Boyd and Claus Peymann and the director/actress Fiona Shaw, looks at specific productions in the play's history, and features a completely new introduction by acclaimed scholar Jonathan Bate. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272200
- ISBN
- 9780230272200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.34
€ 15.34
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Canada
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582424555
- ISBN
- 9780582424555
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.44
€ 11.44
Paperback. This new edition of Richard II in the acclaimed Oxford Shakespeare series features a freshly edited version of the text, extensive commentary, lively illustrations, and a wide-ranging introduction covering the play's historical contexts, political significance, language, and stage history. Editor(s): Dawson, Anthony B.; Yachnin, Paul. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, c. 15 black and white images. BIC Classification: DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 160 x 196 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Critical ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199602285
- ISBN
- 9780199602285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. At head of cover title: Shakespeare side-by-side plain English. Editor(s): Crowther, John. Series: No Fear Shakespeare. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Spark Notes United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781411401020
- ISBN
- 9781411401020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. With interviews with actors and directors including Simon Russell Beale, Bill Alexander and Richard Eyre, along with detailed looks at productions at the RSC and elsewhere, this new edition of the play offers innovative ways of looking at and understanding Shakespeare, as well as student-friendly notes and summaries. Editor(s): Bate, Jonathan; Rasmussen, Eric. Series: The RSC Shakespeare. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221116
- ISBN
- 9780230221116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.44
€ 12.44
Paperback. Treacherous, power-hungry, untempered by moral restraint, and embittered by physical deformity, Richard, the younger brother of King Edward IV, is ablaze with ambition to take England's throne. This title is a chronicle of Richard's machinations to be king - a tale of murder upon murder. Editor(s): Raffel, Professor Burton. Series: The Annotated Shakespeare. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300122022
- ISBN
- 9780300122022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.11
€ 7.11
Hardback. The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage examines the emergence of the professional actress from the 1560s onwards in Italy. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, 26. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649118
- ISBN
- 9781442649118
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
Hardback. This book explores the interplay between ritual performance of the opera Mulian and gentrified mercantile lineages in late imperial Huizhou. It shows how local elites appropriated the opera, turning it into a medium for conveying orthodox values and religious precepts and for negotiating local social and gender issues in a rising money economy. Num Pages: 384 pages, 3 tables, 13 figures, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JB; DSBD; DSG; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804750325
- ISBN
- 9780804750325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.82
€ 103.82
Hardback. Through readings of ten of Moliere's plays, this title argues that a rivalry that endangers order by collapsing differences structures the works and provides a key to their understanding. Moliere's comic characters all want something that they cannot have. The objects of their desire may vary, but the presence of desire itself remains a constant. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838640098
- ISBN
- 9780838640098
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.44
€ 117.44
Paperback. Editor(s): Brewer, David A. Num Pages: 324 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554810062
- ISBN
- 9781554810062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.63
€ 32.99
€ 29.63
Hardcover. Reed explores the impact of early American theatre's portrayals of outlaw characters and the troubling force of the low in theatrical imagination. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 249 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 529.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230607927
- ISBN
- 9780230607927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 47.72
€ 52.90
€ 47.72
Hardcover. What is dramatic romance? Scholars have long turned to Shakespeare's biography to answer this question, marking his 'late plays' as the beginning and end of the dramatic romance. This book identifies an earlier history for this genre, revealing how stage romances imaginatively expanded audience interest in England's emerging global economy. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322708
- ISBN
- 9781137322708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09