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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Hardcover. The stage portrayal of the Victorians in recent times is a key reference point in understanding notions of Britishness, and the profound politicisation of that debate over the last four decades. This book throws new light on works by canonical playwrights like Bond, Edgar, and Churchill, linking theatre to the wider culture at large. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298897
- ISBN
- 9780230298897
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. A comprehensive study of Shakespeare's forgotten masterpiece The Phoenix and Turtle. Bednarz confronts the question of why one of the greatest poems in the English language is customarily ignored or misconstrued by Shakespeare biographers, literary historians, and critics. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319400
- ISBN
- 9780230319400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. A study of performances and depictions of marriage by gay playwrights in contemporary British and American drama. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 234 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338401
- ISBN
- 9780230338401
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.41€ 88.05
€ 105.41
€ 88.05
Hardcover. Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230366305
- ISBN
- 9780230366305
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Paperback. In this new paperback edition Mark Burnett investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of national borders and technological advances, Mark Burnett produces a fresh awareness of our contemporary cultural moment. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230391451
- ISBN
- 9780230391451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Reading a range of work from the US and UK over the last two decades, this is an innovative study of theatre's growing obsession with technologies and effects of naming. How does theatre reflect, and intervene in, naming practices across domains such as philosophy, computing, journalism, anthropology, advertising, military training, and genetics? Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517707
- ISBN
- 9780230517707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre, presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career, from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest, mapping a new approach to ideas of the theatre as an institution. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524804
- ISBN
- 9780230524804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This is the first book to explore the involvement of John Ruskin with the popular theatre of his time. Based on original archival research, this book offers a fresh look at the aesthetic and social theories of Ruskin and his direct and indirect influence on the commercial theatre of the late nineteenth century. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; AN; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524996
- ISBN
- 9780230524996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. This is the first book-length study of the relationship between early modern drama and sacramental ritual and theology. It examines dramatic forms, such as morality plays. Offering new insights into the religious practices on which early modern subjectivity is founded. Coleman offers radical new ways of reading canonical Renaissance plays. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSBD; DSG; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535831
- ISBN
- 9780230535831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardcover. Hegemony and Fantasy in Irish Drama, 1899-1949 offers a theoretically innovative reconsideration of drama produced in the Irish Renaissance, as well as an engagement with non-canonical drama in the under-researched period 1926-1949. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230536838
- ISBN
- 9780230536838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. Indonesian Postcolonial Theatre explores modern theatrical practices in Indonesia from a performance of Hamlet in the warehouses of Dutch Batavia to Ratna Sarumpaet's feminist Muslim Antigones. The book reveals patterns linking the colonial to the postcolonial eras that often conflict with the historical narratives of Indonesian nationalism. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMN; AN; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230546882
- ISBN
- 9780230546882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. This title unravels politics from theatre in order to propose a new means to politicize performance. Performance analyses ranging from child actors, animals and objects to reflections on the innovative theatre work of Societas Raffaello Sanzio, Forced Entertainment and Goat Island combine to offer a radical critique of performance studies. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 339 pages, 25 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230572614
- ISBN
- 9780230572614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.63
€ 128.63
Hardcover. Eighteenth-century drama is often dismissed as homogenous, aesthetically uninteresting, or politically complacent. This book reveals the incredibly intriguing and intricate nature of the period's history plays and their often messy dramatisaton of the complexities of patriotic rhetoric and national identification. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573376
- ISBN
- 9780230573376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Hardcover. Friel is recognised as Ireland's leading playwright and due to the ability of plays like Translations and Dancing at Lughnasa to translate into other cultures he has made a major impact on world theatre. This study draws on the Friel Archive to deepen our understanding of how his plays were developed. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576476
- ISBN
- 9780230576476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Hardcover. In recent years, the 'Popular Shakespeare' phenomenon has become ever more pervasive: in fringe productions, mainstream theatre, or the mass media, Shakespeare is increasingly constructed as an authentic part of popular culture. A vivid account of Shakespeare in performance since the 1990s, this book examines what 'Shakespeare' means to us today. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577039
- ISBN
- 9780230577039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.75
€ 67.75
Paperback. This is a new, revised and updated paperback edition of the critically acclaimed first full-length critical assessment of this most individual, challenging, conceptually energetic of British dramatists, whose recognition and influence have extended to a position of international eminence. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577404
- ISBN
- 9780230577404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.11
€ 61.11
Paperback. Featuring original essays by leading scholars, this book, now available in paperback for the first time, explores the immense legacy of women playwrights in Irish theatre since the beginning of the twentieth century and engages with representations of women by a selection of male playwrights to re-evaluate familiar traditions. Editor(s): Sihra, Melissa. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577916
- ISBN
- 9780230577916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardcover. Lisa Hopkins analyzes eight film adaptations which have taken either Shakespeare or Jane Austen - icons of Englishness - out of their original geographical or cultural context and transposed them to a new location, allowing for a powerful interrogation both of what these texts mean in the modern world, and of Englishness itself. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; DSBF; DSGS; DSK; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579552
- ISBN
- 9780230579552
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. This book fills a lacuna in the intellectual history of the seventeenth century by investigating the role that skepticism plays in the declining prestige of memory. It argues that Shakespeare and Donne revolutionize the art of memory, thanks to their skepticism, and thereby transform literary strategies like mimesis, exemplarity, and pastoral. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 170 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600287
- ISBN
- 9780230600287
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of masculinity from William Shakespeare. Keener traces the history of this appropriation and its attendant masculinities from authors as early as William Gilmore Simms, through Thomas Nelson Page and Thomas Dixon, to William Faulkner. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603202
- ISBN
- 9780230603202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSBH; DSC; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 203
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604711
- ISBN
- 9780230604711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
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
€ 52.70€ 47.72
€ 52.70
€ 47.72
Hardcover. The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608214
- ISBN
- 9780230608214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. This book looks at Cuban and Argentine theater of the late 1960s and early 1970s to see how the idea of spectacle as violence was used to comment on and question the social and political violence that was unfolding offstage. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KLSA; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230613140
- ISBN
- 9780230613140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82