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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Hardback. Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251322
- ISBN
- 9780823251322
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Condition: New
€ 103.82
€ 103.82
Hardback. The Tears of Sovereignty is a comparative study of the representation of the concept of sovereignty in paradigmatic plays of early modern English and Spanish drama. It argues that baroque drama produces the critical terms through which contemporary philosophical criticism continues to think through the problems of sovereignty today. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 654.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251308
- ISBN
- 9780823251308
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Condition: New
€ 52.85
€ 52.85
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251285
- ISBN
- 9780823251285
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Condition: New
€ 46.68
€ 46.68
Paperback. This readable, thought-provoking, and multidisciplinary study explores theatrical writings that question the Aristotelian aesthetical-generic conception and seek instead to work with the medium of theatricality itself. Num Pages: 414 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823224166
- ISBN
- 9780823224166
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.30
€ 46.99
€ 42.30
Paperback. Fusing Marxist and capitalist perspectives in a manner that anticipates aspects of the current global market expansion, the author evokes a world in which nothing is private and everything is for sale. Translator(s): Rolleston, James; Evers, Kai. Num Pages: 128 pages, 7 b&w photographs, 8 figures. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 188.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326908
- ISBN
- 9780822326908
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.33
€ 25.99
€ 24.33
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 367
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316749
- ISBN
- 9780822316749
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821411285
- ISBN
- 9780821411285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.82
€ 38.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816660841
- ISBN
- 9780816660841
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811211666
- ISBN
- 9780811211666
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.82
€ 25.99
€ 22.82
Hardback. Bradley's century-old Shakespearean Tragedy. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801893711
- ISBN
- 9780801893711
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Condition: New
€ 65.95€ 60.63
€ 65.95
€ 60.63
Hardback. Pedrick's fresh perspectives on both texts as well as on their relationship to each other shed new light on two foundational moments in the intellectual development of the West: Greek tragedy and Freudian psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801885945
- ISBN
- 9780801885945
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Condition: New
€ 65.95€ 60.80
€ 65.95
€ 60.80
Hardback. The economics of political and sexual exchange not only became entwined but functioned as mutual supports during a period of social, cultural, and political readjustment. Num Pages: 440 pages, 40, 40 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801879616
- ISBN
- 9780801879616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.92€ 63.20
€ 68.92
€ 63.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 17. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801489242
- ISBN
- 9780801489242
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
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
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.83
€ 41.99
€ 37.83
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 22. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801443152
- ISBN
- 9780801443152
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Condition: New
€ 60.68
€ 60.68
Hardcover. How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio - a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher). Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745661841
- ISBN
- 9780745661841
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Condition: New
€ 73.45
€ 73.45
Hardback. Fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. Covers a wide range of canonical and lesser known dramatic practices, with an emphasis on their social and cultural historical contexts. Series: Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745636030
- ISBN
- 9780745636030
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Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Paperback. The past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in 'staging' Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen introduces and applies the new analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this new wave. Num Pages: 214 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; APF; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 170 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633930
- ISBN
- 9780745633930
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Condition: New
€ 32.45
€ 32.45
Hardback. The past fifteen years have witnessed a diverse group of experiments in 'staging' Shakespeare on film. New Wave Shakespeare on Screen introduces and applies the new analytic techniques and language that are required to make sense of this new wave. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; APF; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 176 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633923
- ISBN
- 9780745633923
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Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Hardback. Through analysis of both major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction to 20th century Irish theatre: its origins, dominant themes, relationship to politics and culture, and influence on theatre movements around the world. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633428
- ISBN
- 9780745633428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Paperback. A study of the many genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work have enjoyed a musical afterlife. The fascinating book discusses opera, ballet, and classical symphony alongside musicals, film soundtracks and hip-hop. Series: Cultural Perception of Shakespeare. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745632971
- ISBN
- 9780745632971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.08
€ 26.08
Hardback. A study of the many genres and contexts in which Shakespeare and his work have enjoyed a musical afterlife. The fascinating book discusses opera, ballet, and classical symphony alongside musicals, film soundtracks and hip-hop. Series: Cultural Perception of Shakespeare. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745632964
- ISBN
- 9780745632964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Hardback. Presents a philosophical meditation on Iago and the nature of evil, through the exploration of the enduring puzzle found in Shakespeare's "Othello". This book opens with a portrait of Iago, and considers the nature and moral significance of the evil that he represents. It addresses the boundaries dividing normality and pathology. Translator(s): Lob, Ladislaus. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 28.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691137339
- ISBN
- 9780691137339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. Focusing on Shakespeare's "Hamlet" as foremost a study of grief, this book offers an analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. It situates "Hamlet" within the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691050935
- ISBN
- 9780691050935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.12€ 68.86
€ 89.12
€ 68.86