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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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€ 22.70
€ 31.99
€ 22.70
Paperback. The "Shakespeare at Stratford" series discusses and analyzes the wide range of theatrical interpretation stimulated and provoked by the most frequently performed plays. The focus is on productions at Stratford-upon-Avon since 1945. Editor(s): Day, Gillian. Series: Shakespeare at Stratford Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS; YQE. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 131 x 199 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Arden Shakespeare
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903436127
- ISBN
- 9781903436127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 42.28
€ 44.99
€ 42.28
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138677258
- ISBN
- 9781138677258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.07
€ 15.07
Paperback. Shakespeare's plays have inspired British Oscar-winners and spaghetti Westerns, Bollywood thrillers, and Soviet epics. Covering twenty plays, this work spans a century of cinema, from a silent "Tempest" (1907) to Kenneth Branagh's "As You Like It" (2006). Series: Screen Guides. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844571703
- ISBN
- 9781844571703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.54
€ 33.99
€ 24.54
Hardback. This book traces the complexity and richness of Merchant's Jewish aspect, spanning encounters with Jews and the Hebrew Bible in the early modern world as well as modern adaptations of Shakespeare's play on the Yiddish stage. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474418386
- ISBN
- 9781474418386
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.57€ 102.41
€ 106.57
€ 102.41
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847064936
- ISBN
- 9781847064936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.74
€ 33.99
€ 28.74
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
- Number of pages
- 234
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904271598
- ISBN
- 9781904271598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.17
€ 23.99
€ 20.17
Hardback. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Annotated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474418973
- ISBN
- 9781474418973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.57€ 102.41
€ 106.57
€ 102.41
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780713668131
- ISBN
- 9780713668131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.43
€ 13.99
€ 13.43
Hardcover. Focuses on Shakespeare's reception by nineteenth-century female actors and scholars. This book offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. Editor(s): Marshall, Gail. Series: Great Shakespeareans. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 242 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826433862
- ISBN
- 9780826433862
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 213.14€ 188.26
€ 213.14
€ 188.26
Paperback. Presents a comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, in which Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia, but lacks the funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock. When Antonio's business falters, repayment becomes impossible, and Shylock is able to demand a pound of Antonio's flesh. Editor(s): Raffel, Professor Burton. Series: The Annotated Shakespeare. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 146 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300115642
- ISBN
- 9780300115642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.07
€ 7.07
Hardback. Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 bw illus. BIC Classification: AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472587077
- ISBN
- 9781472587077
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.34
€ 50.34
Hardback. This book is new in the way it tackles the problem of imagining performances of Shakespeare as you read his plays. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748623716
- ISBN
- 9780748623716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.65€ 97.45
€ 100.65
€ 97.45
Paperback. This new guide to the English renaissance's most erudite and yet most street-wise dramatist strongly asserts the theatrical brilliance of his greatest plays in performance, then and now. Editor(s): McEvoy, Sean. Series: Renaissance Dramatists. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748623020
- ISBN
- 9780748623020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474411455
- ISBN
- 9781474411455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.57€ 102.41
€ 106.57
€ 102.41
Hardback. This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in the United States in its historical, political and theoretical dimensions. It focuses on representative plays and performance texts from the 1940s to the present that experiment with both form and content. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 117.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748624935
- ISBN
- 9780748624935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.65€ 97.45
€ 100.65
€ 97.45
Hardcover. Editor(s): Goldstein, David B.; Tigner, Amy L. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- Duquesne
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820704951
- ISBN
- 9780820704951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.07€ 55.32
€ 65.07
€ 55.32
Paperback. 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 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745661858
- ISBN
- 9780745661858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.42
€ 25.42
Hardback. Although Bakhtin applied his theory primarily to the epic and the novel, Platter finds in his work profound implications for Aristophanic comedy, where stylistic heterogeneity is the genre's lifeblood. Series: Arethusa Books. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801885273
- ISBN
- 9780801885273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76€ 57.66
€ 62.76
€ 57.66
Hardback. Originally published in 1996 by Mansell Publishing Limited. Editor(s): Haffenden, John. Series: Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474247580
- ISBN
- 9781474247580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 165.78€ 147.13
€ 165.78
€ 147.13
Paperback. This Companion provides an original and authoritative survey of twentieth-century American drama studies, written by some of the best scholars and critics in the field. Editor(s): Krasner, David. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 600 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 173 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1070.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 600
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405163682
- ISBN
- 9781405163682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.31
€ 61.31
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Arden Shakespeare
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904271628
- ISBN
- 9781904271628
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.54
€ 17.99
€ 16.54
Paperback. Shakespeare's plays continue to be circulated on a massive scale in a variety of guises - as editions, performances, and adaptations - and it is by means of such mediation that we come to know his drama. This title addresses fundamental questions about this process of mediation, making use of the fraught category of adaptation. Num Pages: 232 pages, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415308687
- ISBN
- 9780415308687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.23
€ 51.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 bw illus. BIC Classification: ANF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474239837
- ISBN
- 9781474239837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.05
€ 35.99
€ 33.05