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Literary studies: plays & playwrights

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

Hardcover. Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137320858
ISBN
9781137320858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

Hardcover. A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, Essif examines two dozen post-1960 works representing some of the most innovative dramaturgy of the last half century, including works by Gatti, Obaldia, Cixous, Koltes, and Vinaver. Num Pages: 367 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 575.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137299024
ISBN
9781137299024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.13

Hardcover. Drawing on the later writings of Martin Heidegger, the book traces the correspondence between the philosopher's concept of technology and Shakespeare's poetics of human and natural productivity in the Sonnets. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137287175
ISBN
9781137287175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.61

Hardcover. Women are at the center of American theatre and have the potential to shape the cultural imagination of theatre-goers as a complex new era unfolds. Sarah Ruhl, one of the twenty-first century's most honored playwrights, is read in concert with her contemporaries whose writing also wrestles with the vexing issues facing Americans in the new century. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137287106
ISBN
9781137287106
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 46.69

Hardcover. This study concerns itself with a now-forgotten religious group, Spiritualists, and how their ensuing discussions of Shakespeare's meaning, his writing practices, his possible collaborations, and the supposed purity and/or corruption of his texts anticipated, accompanied, or silhouetted similar debates in Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137282200
ISBN
9781137282200
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.70

Hardcover. Samuel Beckett's work is deeply concerned with physical contact - remembered, half-remembered, or imagined. Applying the philosophical writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Merleau-Ponty that feature sensation, this study examines how Beckett's later work dramatizes moments of contact between self and self, self and world, and self and other. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137276988
ISBN
9781137276988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

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

Paperback. Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus, The Duchess of Malfi and The Changeling, this book 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 twentieth- and twenty-first century stages. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137274717
ISBN
9781137274717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. Friel is widely recognised as Ireland's leading playwright but through the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has also made a major impact on world theatre. This study draws on the Friel Archive in the National Library of Ireland to deepen our understanding of how his plays were developed. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137274694
ISBN
9781137274694
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

Paperback. This innovative collection with essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars, now in paperback for the first time, 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; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137274687
ISBN
9781137274687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.01

Hardcover. From Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers to Arthur Kopit and Brian Friel, agent Audrey Wood encouraged and guided the unique talents of playwrights in the Broadway theatre of her day. Her quiet determination and burning enthusiasm brought America's finest mid-century playwrights to prominence and altered stage history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ANB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137270627
ISBN
9781137270627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 47.00

Paperback. What's the worst thing you can do to Shakespeare? The answer is simple: don't read him. To that end, Richard Burt and Julian Yates embark on a project of un/reading the Bard, turning the conventional challenges into a roadmap for textual analysis and a thorough reconsideration of the plays in light of their absorption into global culture. Num Pages: 178 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137270498
ISBN
9781137270498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.65

Hardcover. What's the worst thing you can do to Shakespeare? The answer is simple: don't read him. To that end, Richard Burt and Julian Yates embark on a project of un/reading the Bard, turning the conventional challenges into a roadmap for textual analysis and a thorough reconsideration of the plays in light of their absorption into global culture. Num Pages: 178 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137270481
ISBN
9781137270481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

Hardcover. Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137035356
ISBN
9781137035356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Between 1890 and 1918, over 125 plays by 70 dramatists were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer. This book analyzes the issues dramatized in those plays which reveal Americans to have been 'dis/contented' citizens, conflicted by the demands of a dynamically changing nation. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137032966
ISBN
9781137032966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

Hardcover. This project takes the human body and the bodily senses as joints that articulate new kinds of connections between church and theatre and overturns a longstanding notion about theatrical phenomenology in this period. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 311 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137030047
ISBN
9781137030047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.69

Hardcover. This book is a post-1989 interpretation of The Tempest that reaches new conclusions about how to teach about the play's setting, Caliban, and its New World-utopian politics. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137021793
ISBN
9781137021793
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event - itself a simultaneous invention and erasure - and Beckett's attempts to create an incommensurable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSG; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137014351
ISBN
9781137014351
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardcover. This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre - redefining what the dramatic stands for today. Each chapter of the collection focuses on influential contemporary plays and playwrights. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AN; ASZ; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137010124
ISBN
9781137010124
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.15

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