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Literary studies: plays & playwrights

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Literary studies: plays & playwrights

Hardback. This is an investigation of Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. He was allied to other artists of the 1890s in his fascination with the biblical dancer Salome and in his preoccupation with things Japanese, particularly Noh theatre with its central dance. Num Pages: 385 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; ASD; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 651.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
385
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333604984
ISBN
9780333604984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.37

Hardback. Focuses on the ways in which Harold Pinter conceives of and dramatizes time according to the medium in which he is working. The text shows how Pinter undermines the temporal assumptions of naturalism and realism to form a relativistic world in which time is a central feature. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
178
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333607619
ISBN
9780333607619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.57

Hardback. This volume examines Ben Jonson's role as literary critic, and examines the ways in which that criticism defines his role as a professional author. It suggests how Jonson's criticism set the terms for the profession of letters in England for more than a century. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333629819
ISBN
9780333629819
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.09

Paperback. Characterizes Fielding's personality and details ways in which Fielding's attitudes contribute to the subject matter of his plays and novels and to the rhetorical strategies that control their shape as well. The book shows that his work as lawyer, magistrate, and essayist was similarly informed. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSG; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333633236
ISBN
9780333633236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.87

Hardback. This enquiry into the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories assumes that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiographical outlook. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 505.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333633298
ISBN
9780333633298
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.07

Hardback. Challenging ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, this text proposes characters should be perceived as imagined persons. Drawing on analyses of earlier and modern psychology, it goes on to reveal the dynamics of Shakespeare's characterizations of Hamlet, Prince Hal and Rosalind. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333634486
ISBN
9780333634486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Paperback. All the roles in Shakespeare's plays were acted by men, yet he wrote strong roles for women from Lady Macbeth to Rosalind. So was Shakespeare a feminist before his time? This study examines how these and other issues have maintained the playwright's influence throughout history. Series: Macmillan Literary Lives. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333665480
ISBN
9780333665480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Paperback. Shows the inter-relationship of all nine plays written in Shakespeare's main tragic period. Tracing through a dialectic between two different modes of imagining, the author analyzes how in subsequent plays related themes and situations are dramatized in both sacred and secular worlds. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333668641
ISBN
9780333668641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.46

Hardback. This collecton examines critical understandings of the early modern dramatist Ben Jonson and his body of work. It employs materialist, feminist and queer theory in its approach to Jonsonian playtexts and masques. Editor(s): Sanders, Julie; Chedgzoy, Kate; Wiseman, Susan. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSG; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333670729
ISBN
9780333670729
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.13

Hardback. Interests in the erotic in western culture act in counterpoint to its established humanistic infrastructure and pose questions about the significance of sexuality. This book proposes a "mythopoetics of sex" with which to explore Beckett's work as a whole. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333681626
ISBN
9780333681626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.85

Hardback. An analysis of the sonnet in the English Renaissance, this text traces the relations between Shakespeare's sonnets and the ways in which other writers use the form. It looks at how the poetry fits into the historical situation at the time, with regard to images of the family and of women. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333683712
ISBN
9780333683712
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.85

Hardcover. Taking a wide ranging inter-textual approach, Richard Hillman sets early modern English play texts against political and cultural discourses concerning France, as these informed contemporary English consciousness. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; DSG; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 529.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333694541
ISBN
9780333694541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Hardback. Drawing upon archival material as well as the drama, popular verse and pamphlets, this book reads representations of masters and servants in relation to key Renaissance preoccupations. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSG; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333694572
ISBN
9780333694572
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Hardcover. This volume situates the individual works of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas covered include Marlowe's preference for foreign settings and his unusually accurate depictions of them, and the importance of his scholarly background. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 419.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333698235
ISBN
9780333698235
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.34

Paperback. This volume situates the individual works of Marlowe within the context of his overall literary career. Areas covered include Marlowe's preference for foreign settings and his unusually accurate depictions of them, and the importance of his scholarly background. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333698259
ISBN
9780333698259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.38

Hardback. This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin's thought. Editor(s): Knowles, Ronald. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 242 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333711415
ISBN
9780333711415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.08

paperback. This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin's thought. Editor(s): Knowles, Ronald. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
1998th Edition
SKU
V9780333711422
ISBN
9780333711422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.05

Hardback. Aimed at Potter fans and media and literature students. A critical analysis of Potter's oeuvre which looks at his status as an author and as a celebrity. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333713891
ISBN
9780333713891
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.70

Hardback. Examines the complex relationship between Shakespeare and Irish literary and cultural traditions. Addressing Shakespearean representations of Ireland as well as Irish writers' responses to the dramatist, the book ranges from theatrical performances, pedagogical practices to political developments. Editor(s): Burnett, Mark Thornton; Wray, Ramona. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB; DSGS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 505.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333714508
ISBN
9780333714508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.07

Hardback. This collection of essays by 12 scholars, editors, historians and bibliographers explores ways in which modern understanding of Jonson's texts has undermined the emphasis of the Oxford text, "Works", and generated a Jonson whose "Works" and career look quite different. Editor(s): Butler, Martin. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333720417
ISBN
9780333720417
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.34

Hardcover. This study covers Shaw's campaigns and crusades in the first ten years of the century, when his career hung in the balance. By drawing on contemporary documents and highlighting aspects of Shaw's career at this time, Hugo depicts a man who stamped his personality on the age. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
MacMillan
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333733554
ISBN
9780333733554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.51

Hardback. Examining gendered readerships and the use of erotic works, reading practises and manuscript culture, textual forms and transmission, literary taste and the canonisation of Shakespeare, this work argues that historicist criticism can no longer ignore histories of reading. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 265 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333740149
ISBN
9780333740149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Hardback. This book examines the play writing career of Aphra Behn explaining her often dominant place in the complex theatrical culture of Charles II's reign, her divided political sympathies, and her interests as a free thinking intellectual. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333760307
ISBN
9780333760307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. This volume argues that the Shakespeare films of the 1990s are key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. It maintains films such as "Hamlet" and "Othello" engage with some of the most pressing millennial concerns. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSGS; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333776643
ISBN
9780333776643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

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